Bayern Munich stars to bid farewell to Baichung Bhutia tonight

The Audi Football Summit will be played today at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi with the Indian national football team taking on German football giants FC Bayern Munich. The match also marks the farewell game for long-time India captain Baichung Bhutia and proceeds from the game will go to the victims of the Sikkim earthquake.

Bayern Munich arrived yesterday afternoon in the Indian capital ahead of the match against India. It is the fifth visit by a team from FCB in the last six years, but the first time that their full first team squad has travelled to the subcontinent.

At the pre-match press conference Philipp Lahm made the point that he was happy to be in India and had seen a little bit of country on the way from the airport to the team hotel and he hoped to interact with Indians to get feel of the country.

Baichung Bhutia was happy and proud that in his final match for Team India he would get the chance to face a team of the calibre of Bayern Munich. Baichung wants to go out on a high and will try to play as long as possible, ideally 90 minutes.

For Bastian Schweinsteiger the match is part of his comeback preparations following a collar bone fracture ahead of the start of the return-leg of the German Bundesliga on January 20 against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

And coach Jupp Heynckes added, "We are taking this match seriously. We are here to show what top European club football is all about and hope to entertain the Indian crowds."

The match will kick-off at 18.00 local time at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. The match will be shown live in India on TenAction+, while Germany's Sat1 will show the a match recording at 18.00 CET.


More information about the match and where to buy tickets online are available at www.audifootballsummit.in

The official Twitter account of the Audi Football Summit can be found under www.twitter.com/AudiFS2012 .