Not content with installing Buddha statues, creating a library and introducing language lessons and yoga sessions at the training ground, German champions Bayern Munich are now planning to get the players' wives top fit in the kitchen.

As part of Bayern's "holistic" approach under new coach Juergen Klinsmann, the wives will be offered cooking courses to ensure the club's international stars get a balanced diet.

"I've absolutely nothing against Mrs Lucio's bean soup but the nutrition should be well balanced," club general manager Uli Hoeness said Thursday in a reference to the club's Brazilian defender Lucio.

Hoeness, the son of a butcher and owner of a sausage factory in Nuremberg, said at a sponsoring event at a dairy in the Bavarian town of Freising that it was important for Bayern players to have an all-round feeling of well-being.

Klinsmann wants not only to improve the players' physical fitness but make them more nutritionally aware, with the help of wives and girlfriends, he said.

"They are expressly invited to drop in any time to our performance centre," Hoeness said.

The 56-year-old former Bayern player and West German international admitted that diet had not exactly been a priority in his playing days.

"It's hard to believe now that we ate brawn at 11 o'clock in the morning and still won," he said.

Bayern's healthy approach could even extend to the fans. Along with beer and soft drinks, it might be an idea to offer milk at the Allianz Arena.

"Bayern always stood for 'no limits.' I personally would have nothing against it," Hoeness said.