Munich aim to cap record season

MUNICH — Bayern Munich are by self-definition Germany’s best football club, which is supported by the Bundesliga and European record books and manifested as well by their immense wealth.

But Munich’s confident “mia san mia” (roughly translated as “we are who we are”) motto will receive a serious dent if they fail to lift the Champions League trophy after the first all-German final against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday at Wembley.

The record-breaking run to the Bundesliga title and a German cup win on June 1 would mean next to nothing if Bayern fall against Dortmund, who beat them for the 2011 and 2012 league titles and clobbered them 5-2 in the German cup final 12 months ago.

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