2024-04-16 22:30:22
After more than ten years, Dortmund is back in the semi-finals of the Champions League. After the victory, there was pure euphoria among those responsible – seasoned with sometimes harsh language.
After a turbulent, not always high-class, but always extremely exciting game, this was hardly surprising. Even BVB advisor Matthias Sammer, who is otherwise extremely rational, was carried away by making a statement that was unusual for him.
“You can’t pay for what football can offer you. Kalle Rummenigge (as the former CEO of FC Bayern, editor’s note) once said: ‘We’ll do all the shit for this evening,'” there was he goes on record on Amazon Prime.
Meanwhile, BVB managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke, who was sitting next to Sammer in the stands, was exuberant: “That was extraordinary, a rollercoaster ride,” the Sauerlander exulted and paid the Dortmund team a “huge compliment.”
“So you have to come back first. That was a really great evening. And a proud day for all Borussia,” added Watzke.
A “very, very happy” BVB coach
Coach Edin Terzić gave an insight into his emotional world just a little less exuberantly: “I’m very, very happy and very, very proud of the boys. If you look at both games, we had a weak first half hour in Madrid, we had “We had a bit of a problem today at the start of the second half, but the rest of the time the team is much better and more active and we deserve it,” said the 41-year-old.
His protégé Marcel Sabitzer, who was the match winner with a goal and two assists, agreed with this. He simply spoke of an “indescribable feeling.”
Despite all the euphoria, Sammer, who was nicknamed “Motzki” during his playing days as a footballer, also sprinkled a little bit of salt into Dortmund’s euphoria soup: “After the break… if you had heard what I said or thought… because “It all came true again that this team doesn’t actually have the winning genes – but then they proved the opposite,” said the BVB champion coach from 2002 with short interruptions. BVB had squandered a 2-0 lead from the first half at the start of the second half and had to accept the 2-2 equalizer before still prevailing 4-2.
In the semi-finals, BVB will now face Paris Saint-Germain – a task that at least doesn’t make the blood run cold for those in charge at Dortmund: “If you’re already there, it makes sense to get to the final,” explained the coach Terzić with a smile. In any case, his team will “try everything” to make this happen for the first time since 2013.