One and a half years after the attack on the BVB team bus of Borussia Dortmund is playing again in the Champions League against AS Monaco. When BVB would be best to have a hook behind the events of that time.
All do not remember, only you want to talk to the BVB better about it. It was no coincidence that the Bundesliga side for the press conference before the Champions League home game this Wednesday against AS Monaco (kick-off 21 PM CEST, starting at 20.45 in the DW live Ticker) comprised only coach Lucien Favre and defensive player Manuel Akanji. Both came to not only last the summer, Borussia Dortmund, in front of one and a half years in the case of the traumatic events so at all: On 11. April 2017, one and a half hours before the scheduled kick-off of the quarter-final first leg in the Champions League between Dortmund and AS Monaco, were exploded three explosive devices in the immediate vicinity of the team bus. That “only” the former BVB-Profi Marc Bartra was injured on the Arm and a police officer suffered a blast injury, a miracle.
Akanji: “matter is closed”
“We are concentrating on the football,” said Manuel Akanji, part of the man Council of Dortmund, on the issue of whether the stop in front of the new edition of the duel with Monaco was still in the minds of the players. “Everybody is happy that they are healthy and can play football. The theme is completed.” Apparently, for Lucien Favre, who expressed to the question. Sebastian Kehl, the head of the BVB-license game Department, had brought the currency of Borussia Dortmund for the game against Monaco previously so to the point: “We want to take this game as just a normal Champions League game.”
At the end of Tuchel went
Thomas Tuchel remained for another two months
Ex-BVB goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller, who has ended his career now, no longer must adhere to the official BVB direction.”This sneaky bomb has changed the whole club,” said Weidenfeller in the “image”-newspaper. Dortmund have experienced a “incredibly hard ordeal”, and it has resulted in but strengthened: “This club is not to destroy the people and with these incredible Fans in the back.” But at least one Person acting not in it any more. The dissonance between BVB managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke and coach Thomas Tuchel escalated after the attack so far, that the crack was no longer a kitten between the two. Tuchel took at the end of may 2017 with BVB, the DFB Cup, and then both sides went their separate ways.
Judgment against bomber expected in November
Later in the trial against the bomber from Dortmund – said Tuchel, he would have remained the coach of the black and yellow, had it not been for the attack. The trial against the confessed German-Russians Sergei W., the 28-times the attempted murder is accused of running. The judgment is expected in November. In the process, several BVB from said professionals. Ex-Keeper Weidenfeller gave to Protocol, that he get psychological help to cope with the Trauma of coping. Marcel Schmelzer, at the time of the attack, BVB captain, said he cringe still when loud noises: “I’m trying to move away. But there are always moments where you think, what for a luck we had.”
Goalkeeper Roman Bürki in April 2017 when warming up for the game against Monaco a Jersey of the injured Marc Bartra
AS Monaco is in crisis
It is likely to be more protection statement as the truth, that the bomb attack is ticked on the team bus for all those Involved permanently. Against this Background, a victory this Wednesday against AS Monaco would certainly be a balm to the traumatized BVB-soul. The conditions are unlike a half years ago, as the Dortmund under the immediate impression of the attack twice against the Monegasques lost in the quarter-finals. Dortmund has ousted Bayern from the top of the League, within four days the 1. FC Nuremberg 7:0 handled, then in the case of Bayer 04 Leverkusen a 0:2 deficit into a 4:2-success turned. AS Monaco is after six competitive game-low-space 18 of the Ligue 1 defeats and the fall on the table in the crisis. Coach Lucien Favre warns against to take the opponent lightly: “I have seen the last games of Monaco. There is missing very little. It is a heavy task.”
Reunion with Höwedes
A “difficult number” expected, Christian Heidel, sporting, sports Board of FC Schalke 04. The Royal Blues take on Wednesday (kick-off 18: 55 CEST, 18.40 PM in the DW live Ticker) in the Champions League for Lokomotiv Moscow. For Schalke, there is a reunion with former club icon Benedikt Höwedes. The world champion of 2014 now earns his money in the Russian masters. Höwedes had not played in ten years, a total of 335 games for Schalke.