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On Sunday, Bayeleuzen won the first league title in their 120 year history, and the celebrations were wild.

Yeah! 5.0! Still to play for this season, a potential treble and a chance to go the entire season unbeaten.

But is Zabbiolondo staying enough to keep this squad together next season?

Is it still even possible for this team to go to the next level

and break into Europe's elite?

Or is this as good as it gets for Leverkusen?

I'm Ayahuakim Ulare.

Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast. Join us today, we have the athletics German football writers, Rafael

Hunigstein and also Seb Staffford-Bloor as well.

Seb, you were at the Bay Arena on Sunday for Leibacuzon's 5-0 win over Verde Bremen,

which actually won them the title for the first time in their history with five games to spare.

Right, give us some insight on the atmosphere.

I suppose the experience, inside the setting

pretty wild, obviously, it was coming. Obviously, Florinvert scored his second goal and a couple

of fans had a go at a first pitch invasion. And then when he scored his hat-trick goal, I think

everybody just accepted the inevitable. And it was wonderful just to watch the individual people in the crowd.

Like beyond a certain point, you couldn't really pick out individuals because there were so

many people on the pitch.

But there's so many different emotions.

And so, you know, obviously, depending on how old you are as a Leverkusen fan, you've

had a very different life as a supporter.

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