Berlin — Jupp Heynckes plans to down his former club Real Madrid in Wednesday’s Champions League semifinal first leg and take the next step to leaving Bayern Munich with another treble. Heynckes, 72, has already won the Champions League as head coach of both clubs. Heynckes steered Real to the title in 1998, then Bayern in 2013, a season the Germans finished with a treble. At an age when his contemporaries are playing bingo and looking after the grandchildren, Heynckes is relishing a high-pressure European semifinal showdown. "It’s a cracker — a gigantic meeting in a positive sense," he said. "These are two teams with a great tradition in European football, who play and love attractive football. It’s a difficult draw for both sides." Bayern are the only club left in the Champions League that can still win a treble. They wrapped up a sixth straight Bundesliga title three weeks ago and will face Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Cup final on May 19. If Bayern lift the Champions League...
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