At 95, Uri Siegel's eyesight is fading but his memory is still sharp. So while he struggles to see what's right in front of him, he has a keen focus on the past.
It was Siegel's uncle, a Holocaust survivor named Kurt Landauer, who laid the foundation that has supported Bayern's rise from the ashes of postwar Germany. Siegel remembers going to games with his uncle and climbing eight rows up the concrete grandstands to their seats in the team's old, unadorned stadium.
"He was a pioneer," Siegel says. "There were certain things he introduced to the organization.