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Ribery extends Bayern contract

"We're delighted we've reached agreement on a contract extension with one of the world's best players," Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told the Bundesliga club's website.

"That is a sign of the big goals the team has set for the coming years."

"I made five more years," the Frenchman told a 25,000-strong crowd at Munich's central Marienplatz square, speaking in broken German, as the team were welcomed home.

"My family and I are delighted that we're staying in Munich. The club has become a big family for me," Ribery said in a statement. "I am very happy that I opted to continue working together with Bayern."

"We will do everything to be back in the final in the coming years," Rummenigge said after a convoy of cars carried the team into the city centre.

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