Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeness Sentenced to 3 and a half Years in Prison

Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for tax evasion, as reported by Eurosport:

The 1974 World Cup winner is said to have evaded €27.2 million in taxes and was lucky not to receive a five-year sentence, according to The Guardian's Philip Oltermann: "The 62-year old asked for leniency having voluntarily disclosed his actions to authorities."
Hoeness made well in excess of 200 appearances for Bayern across a nine-year spell with the club before heading to Nuremberg on loan. His crime is sure to dampen a fantastic legacy he has built at Bayern since retiring in 1979, an era that has seen the club rise to prominence with multiple domestic titles and European successes.

Most recently, Bayern's greatest achievement with Hoeness as president arrived in the form of a quintet-winning 2013.

Hoeness had hoped to avoid a prison sentence after turning himself in last year, per The Associated Press.
Upon coming clean, German chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her disappointment toward the Bayern president, as quoted by Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, via BBC News: "Many people are now disappointed in Uli Hoeness, among them the Chancellor."