BERLIN — Bayern Munich can crown a remarkable season Saturday with victory in the German Cup final in Jupp Heynckes' last game in charge. Only Stuttgart stands in the way of Bayern completing its first treble, one week after the team finally won the Champions League and eight after they wrapped up the Bundesliga with a record six games to spare. “We're all hungry, we want to make ourselves immortal,” Bayern attacking midfielder Thomas Mueller said. “The cup is even more important now because it's not just a trophy you can win. Now we can write history.” Bayern would become the first German team to win the treble of domestic league, cup and European Cup, and the seventh overall after Celtic in 1967, Ajax in 1972, PSV Eindhoven in 1988, Manchester United in 1999, Barcelona in 2009 and Inter Milan in 2010. “Every player has said it 100 times already: The treble was never there (to be won) before, so this is a huge motivation,” Mueller said. It would also provide the perfect send off for Heynckes, who is making way for Pep Guardiola and making it increasingly difficult for the former Barcelona coach to match this season's achievements. Bayern captured its fifth European Cup last Saturday with a 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund in London — banishing painful memories of losing the final on penalties to Chelsea in Munich the year before — and broke a host of records in claiming the club's 23rd German title after the best campaign in 50 years of the Bundesliga. Now, attention has turned to what would be a record 16th German Cup. Stuttgart, which finished 12th in the Bundesliga, is playing its first final since 2007, when the then-Bundesliga champions lost 3-2 in extra time to Nuremberg. “Anything can happen on any given day and we're hoping that that day comes tomorrow,” Labbadia said. Labbadia is nevertheless playing down his side's chances of causing an upset. “Bayern is the strongest team in Europe at the moment, if not the world. These two years without a title really spurred them on. To beat such an opponent would be something extraordinary,” Labbadia said. “When you've achieved something as big as winning the Champions League you can let that slip. I'm not taking it personally,” Labbadia said. Monaco nets Falcao Monaco's billionaire Russian owner Dmitry Rybolovlev announced Friday the signature of Colombia forward Radamel Falcao from Atletico Madrid in a deal believed to be worth around 60 million euros ($77 million). “I would like to officially announce that Falcao has signed his contract,” Rybolovlev read out in French at an event celebrating Monaco's promotion to the French top flight next season. — Agencies
