FILE PHOTO: Bayern Munich's Uli Hoeness arrives during the annual general meeting of the German Bundesliga first division soccer club in Munich, Germany, November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness feels that he has not lost any respect among his peers but has become more humble and less outspoken after serving time in prison for tax evasion.Hoeness was jailed from June 2014 until February last year for tax evasion when he was released after serving half of his 3-1/2-year term. He was re-elected unopposed as Bayern president in November.
The 65-year-old former West Germany international, who from early 2015 was allowed out of jail during the day, said the ex-Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was among those who wrote to him while he was in prison."So far, it has been as it was before, I have received letters from important decision makers in football," he told reporters at the Alpensymposium, a business and politics conference in the Swiss resort of Interlaken.
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