Bayern Munich donate $1.1 million to help refugees

As Europe wrestles with an unprecedented wave of refugees, Germany's two biggest football teams have offered their support to migrants arriving in the country.

German champion Bayern Munich announced Thursday it will donate €1 million ($1.1 million) to relevant charitable projects, while the team's players will walk out for its next match holding hands with young refugees.

Thousands of people, mostly from war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have poured into Germany, with hundreds filling a Munich train station earlier this week.

Bayern will also set up a training camp which will offer meals and German language classes to children.

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Germany's government said last month it expected up to 800,000 asylum seekers to come from Syria this year alone -- four times more than in 2014.

"FC Bayern see it as its social responsibility to help those fleeing and suffering children, women and men, to