And it was knocked out of the Champions League at the semifinal stage by Borussia Dortmund.
So too was Lewandowski's Borussia Dortmund and Cavani's Napoli, runners-up in Germany and Italy respectively.
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Bayern has already signed Dortmund's most exciting playmaker, the 20-year-old wunderkind Mario Gotze, for next season.
Mario Gotze will add to Munich's impressive squad, making the move from Dortmund in the off-season.
Hamburg crushed Borussia Dortmund 4-1, with four goals coming inside the opening 12 minutes.
Then, Dortmund rattled Real Madrid with its high-energy pressing game in a 4-1 victory.
It's a titanic task, but Dortmund has conceded 36 goals in 31 league games this year.
Borussia Dortmund went with roughly the best available team and snatched a tough victory at Stuttgart.
He has formed an exciting partnership with another young German international at Borussia Dortmund, Marco Reus.
Dortmund doesn't have the kind of financial resources to fully restock its squad through expensive signings.
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Borussia Dortmund is a club where the fans know not to get too attached.
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From London to Dortmund, Budapest to Rome, Copenhagen to Barcelona, and back to London.
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Germany will play the winners of the Italy-Ukraine quarter-final in Dortmund on Tuesday at 2000 BST.
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Reigning champions Borussia Dortmund routed Moenchengladbach 5-0 to rise to third in the table.
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Witness the rally that took place on June 6th in the German city of Dortmund.
"I heard about Dortmund but I have had no contact with anybody, " said Wenger.
Carrying a hamstring injury, Gotze watched from the stands on Saturday and loyally celebrated the Dortmund equalizer.
In addition to Dortmund, Schmeichel also talked up the chances of Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Second-placed Borussia Dortmund going down 2-1 away to Schalke while third-place Bayer Leverkusen lost 1-0 at Mainz.
Dortmund will now face Bayern hoping for a repeat of their 5-2 victory in last season's final.
Halfway around the planet, at HMKV in Dortmund, Germany, another exhibition about silence just ended.
Because of its away goal in the first leg, Real would progress with a 3-0 victory over Dortmund.
Dortmund had to rebuild after it won the Champions League in 1997, but the situation was different then.
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"I think we'll get a surprise this year and I'm leaning a little bit towards Dortmund, " continued Schmeichel.
And it was almost punished when Isco's rasping drive forced Dortmund keeper Roman Weidenfeller into an impressive stop.
In the night's other last 16 tie, Borussia Dortmund beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-0 to progress 5-2 on aggregate.
But Weidenfeller couldn't do much in the 60th minute after Franck Ribery clipped a ball through three Dortmund defenders.
Dortmund tied things up eight minutes later from the penalty spot with a strike from the excellent Ilkay Gundogan.
Dortmund has a rich tradition, too, but the club identifies more as a scrappy upstart than an established mainstay.
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