Credit where credit is due: Dino Toppmöller talks about how Bayern Munich included him in 2023 title celebrations

Current Eintracht Frankfurt manager Dino Toppmöller — who worked under Julian Nagelsmann at Bayern — spoke this week about Jamal Musiala’s goal on the last matchday of the 2022/23 season that clinched the 11th Meisterschale in a row. Toppmöller, like the rest of Nagelsmann’s crew, was let go in March when Thomas Tuchel was put into power, but he felt involved in that final goal and the celebrations.

Here is how Toppmöller remembers that goal: “It felt like we practiced that kind of finish a thousand times. I was absolutely thrilled with the goal, of course. The guys called me via FaceTime from the dressing room after the game and thanked me. That was a great moment. Two months later, I had the league medal in my mailbox as a thank you. That just shows you that you did a few things right.”

A classy move from Bayern to include Toppmöller in the celebrations and the honors of that record-setting eleventh title in a row. In addition to a winner’s medal in the mail, Toppmöller also received a manager job at Eintracht Frankfurt a couple weeks into that offseason, where he has been since.