Bayern Munich winger and eight-time Bundesliga champion Franck Ribery is keen to extend his stay with the Bavarian giants, describing the club's jersey as his "second skin".

Ribery is midway through his 12th season with Germany's record champions, having swapped Marseille for the Allianz Arena in the summer of 2007. More than 250 Bundesliga appearances later and Ribery might be expected to be in the autumn of his career, but the Frenchman is having none of that.

"At Bayern I can still give everything for the club,"he explained to L'Equipe, in his first interview with the French sports daily in five years. "What do I mean by that? It feels like I can still play at least 35 games, and be part of the big games."

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Ribery has featured in 15 of Bayern's 21 Bundesliga matches so far this season, chipping in with four goals from his favoured position on the left wing. Despite the emergence of Kingsley Coman and Serge Gnabry and arrival of Alphonso Davies, Ribery is keen to extend his stay beyond the end of the season.

"I'm a winner," continued the 35-year-old. "If you have everything at one of the top five clubs in Europe, and even the world, why would you go somewhere else? We'll see how things go in the coming weeks, and we'll all get together, the bosses and my long-term advisor, Alain Migliacco."

Bayern is a club that has historically promoted former players to senior roles. Club president Uli Hoeneß, CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic and coach Niko Kovac have all previously turned out for the Bavarian giants, and Ribery foresees making a similar journey in the future.

"I'm telling you, Franck, you'd make a great coach" - David Alaba (l.) and Franck Ribery (r.) have become firm friends at Bayern. - 2012 Getty Images

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"I've helped many promising young players, for example David Alaba," explained Ribery of his Austrian colleague, with whom he has formed arguably the Bundesliga's most effective left-side partnership over the last decade. "I took him under my wing when he was 15 or 16 years old.

"I've spent a third of my life in Munich and two thirds of my professional life. That means something. I'm grateful because Bayern took me how I am. I will never do this club wrong. There's a real love story between us. The jersey is my second skin."

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