Dutch all embracing Mark van Bommel has been handed the captains armband by Bayern Munich drillmaster Jurgen Klinsmann, the German club said on Friday.

Speaking one ceremony afore the alpha of the new Bundesliga season, Klinsmann said: "Mark van Bommel is absolute for the role. Aback training resumed at the end of June, I acquire been able to appraise the accomplished way in which he leads the team, to the point that he enjoys ample annual from all the players, from the youngsters to the advanced ones Cheap NBA 2K17 MT."

The 31-year-old midfielder takes over the captaincy from Oliver Kahn who retired at the end of abide assay if Bayern Munich won the Bundesliga championship as able-bodied as the German Cup.Bayerns French all-embracing Willy Sagnol had hopes of inheriting the captaincy but he is currently absent from the field, authoritative what is acclimatized to be a diffuse accretion from an operation this ceremony to his Achilles tendon.

Van Bommel acclimatized at Munich from Barcelona in 2006 and apprenticed became a connected affiliate of the team. Amidst 1999 and 2005 he was at PSV Eindhoven.

The Dutchman is chatty in four languages: Dutch, German, English and Spanish - an asset in Bayerns bunch squad. He is the aboriginal non-German to abrasion the captains armband at the club.