Robbie afraid to train with Bayern, coach says

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'BERLIN (Reuters) - British pop star Robbie Williams did not take up an invitation to take part in a training session with German soccer club Bayern Munich, Bayern coach Felix Magath said.
The singer's management had told the club he was interested in training while he was in Germany on a world concert tour.
Bayern invited Williams to join in on any one of three training sessions last week in Munich and hordes of photographers and fans showed up to watch but the singer failed to appear.
"Evidently he was afraid in the end to come out and practice with us," Magath told Wednesday's edition of the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper.
"Maybe he heard from someone that the coach in Munich is a bit tough. He then perhaps decided: 'No, that's a bit much for me. I want to be able to finish my concert tour in one piece."'
Williams, who has the same German mobile phone company as Bayern Munich as a sponsor, is a keen soccer player and hurt his wrist badly while training with a regional league club during a stay in Berlin last year.

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