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BMW Confirms Talks With Soccer Club Bayern Munich on Partnership

Bayern Munich celebrates a goal during a Bundesliga football match on March 2, 2019. — Bayern Munich celebrates a goal during a Bundesliga football match on March 2, 2019.
Photographer: Sascha Schuermann/AFP via Getty Images

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By Katrin Haertel

March 10, 2019 at 3:02 PM UTC

BMW AG said it’s in talks with German soccer giant FC Bayern Munich AG about forming a strategic partnership.

“We are currently in talks with regard to a strategic partnership with FC Bayern,” BMW spokesman Mathias Schmidt said in a statement on Sunday. “It is too early to discuss any details, however the scale and sums of money being suggested by the media do not correspond with reality.”