Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Marco Reus are teammates, in-match Batman and Robin cosplayers, and ultimate BFFs. They even have a synchronized warm-up routine that might qualify as the best ballet I’ve ever seen.
If that didn’t completely melt you heart, here are a few more things that will finish the job…
A year after finishing seventh with a boost from a late surge during Jurgen Klopp’s last days as manager, Borussia Dortmund have gotten off to an impressive start under Thomas Tuchel. They’ve won each of their first two Bundesliga by a score of 4-0 and came back from 3-0 down to beat Odd Grenland 4-3 in their Europa League qualifying playoff. And they’ve done this while not being allowed to eat pizza, pasta, or any other delicious carbohydrates.
It’s been a strange and difficult season for Borussia Dortmund. Just three months ago, the players were trying to calm irate fans as the team sat at the very bottom of the Bundesliga table. But the final league match of the season — and Jurgen Klopp’s final home match with the club — proved to be a sentimental affair with a happy ending.
Borussia Dortmund beat Hertha Berlin 2-0 on Saturday to extend their unbeaten streak to four matches since manager Jurgen Klopp announced that he will leave at the end of the season. This continued Dortmund’s rebound from being bottom of the league up to 10th in the table, and now to seventh place and a chance at qualifying for the Europa League.
After the match, Klopp demonstrated his always wonderful sense of humor. From the BBC:
“If I’d known before the start of the season that we’d put such a winning run together, I’d have announced my departure back then,” Klopp said.
“Seventh place feels brilliant.”
The world would be a better place if we were all a little bit like Jurgen Klopp.
While Bayern Munich’s executives were trying to get Jurgen Klopp to accept their flowers, Bayern’s fans were creating a brilliant tifo display for the DFB Pokal semifinal against Borussia Dortmund.
With Jurgen Klopp set to leave Borussia Dortmund at the end of the season, Bayern Munich, his most formidable rivals, wanted to pay tribute to him before the two sides met in the DFB Pokal semifinals. But Klopp doesn’t want their gifts. He wants a fight.
Jurgen Klopp has announced that he will leave Borussia Dortmund — where he has spent the last seven years and won two Bundesliga titles — at the end of the season. The two-time German coach of the year managed to pull Dortmund out of the relegation zone and back up to 10th in what has been a horrendous season, but that hasn’t changed the fact that he feels it’s time to move on.
Klopp will now have his pick from a variety of high-profile jobs, but which to choose? Here are several top options…
Borussia Dortmund have distributed one million “No beer for racists” coasters to local pubs and restaurants as part of campaign to fight the city’s sizable neo-Nazi scene. According to the club, the idea behind the campaign is to reach the places were “football is experienced most intensely outside the stadium” to spread the word that “Borussia, beer — and Nazis? That does not fit!”
Borussia Dortmund’s long await run of good form continued with a 3-0 win against rivals Schalke, pushing them to ninth in the table and putting their goal difference back to a neutral position. The four consecutive wins seem to have the players in good spirits again too, as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Marco Reus celebrated Dortmund’s 78th-minute opener by wearing Batman and Robin masks that were stashed in a bag behind the goal.
