Dortmund beat bottom-placed Darmstadt 4-0 within the Bundesliga’s closing spherical of 34 on Saturday afternoon, however the day was primarily about one man: Marco Reus bid farewell to the followers. The 34-year-old striker’s contract expires on the finish of the season, and it was already introduced that it could not be prolonged, so Reus will depart his beloved membership after twelve years, to which he returned dwelling in 2012, however was additionally raised there.
Marco Reus on excessive, Dortmund celebrated the farewell legend. Photograph: EPA/Friedelmann Vogel
Reus’ farewell could not have been extra lovely: earlier than Dortmund’s main objective, he offered the help to Maatsen within the thirtieth minute, and eight minutes later he himself scored. He scored three of Dortmund’s 4 targets on the sector, and was changed within the 82nd minute in order that the viewers might bid him a correct farewell. Dortmund’s legendary Yellow Wall stood up and applauded the departing legend, and his teammates lined him up as he got here off the pitch. Reus was visibly moved (video on the finish of the article).
Dortmund’s outcast and welcomed son
As a local of Dortmund, Marco Reus was six years outdated, in 1996, when he joined the membership that received the Champions League the next yr. And if he had solely handed on it, he would not have performed anyplace else. He grew up as a Dortmund fan and performed for different golf equipment when he was younger solely as a result of they did not need him. The painful second got here in 2006. As quickly as he turned 16, he was dismissed by Dortmund as they deemed him too small and fragile for skilled soccer.
“It was very painful for me to must go,” Reus mentioned later The Guardiannek. – Once you spend your whole childhood in a group, you need to take the following step there. Particularly if you’re additionally a fan of that membership.
Reus moved to the German third division Rot Weiss Ahlen, the place he managed to save lots of his profession, in 2009 he was taken to Mönchengladbach within the Bundesliga. There, he quickly established himself as one of many biggest German abilities, in 2012 he completed the league season with 18 targets and 12 assists, and was included within the German nationwide group’s European Championship squad. Dortmund switched then and acquired again the attacker for 17 million euros, who they need to not have let go.
Marco Reus, the unluckiest footballer?
The timing of the return dwelling was significantly unfortunate for Reus, as Jürgen Klopp’s Dortmund had received the Bundesliga within the earlier two seasons, completely infuriating the dethroned Bayern Munich. The Bavarians discovered from their errors and all the time received till Bayer Leverkusen this yr, for instance final yr they wrested the title from Dortmund and Reus within the final spherical.
Nonetheless, the most important misfortune of the group favourite was that he missed the 2014 World Cup in Brazil attributable to an damage, in the very best type of his life, at which the German nationwide group received the gold medal with out him. Reus scored 23 targets and 22 assists in 44 video games in Dortmund that season, he was the very best German soccer participant in the very best type, however he was injured within the 6-1 warm-up match in opposition to Armenia proper earlier than the World Cup. It was touching how Mario Götze, who scored the profitable objective within the World Cup closing in opposition to Argentina, clutched a nationwide group jersey with Reus’s inscription on the sector.
– As high gamers, we earn some huge cash, however I’d give all my cash to be wholesome and to have the ability to do what I really like most, play soccer – Reus mentioned about his accidents.
The 2014 World Cup was not the one main match that he missed for the same purpose. Nonetheless in high type, he additionally missed the 2016 European Championship attributable to damage, after which an damage saved him away from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The on this yr’s German European Championship severely, his identify was now not talked about.
The BL closing could possibly be his final massive shot
Up to now, Reus has scored 170 targets in 428 video games for Dortmund, with the latter rating him in second place among the many group’s all-time high scorers. He’s preceded solely by Adi Preissler, who scored 177 occasions, and he’ll hardly catch him in the one recreation left in his Dortmund profession.
On the primary of June, he’ll play for his beloved group for the final time within the Champions League closing in opposition to Actual Madrid at Wembley in London. There, the place in 2013 he performed within the BL closing as soon as, however misplaced it in opposition to Bayern Munich. He solely received the German Cup and the German Tremendous Cup throughout his profession, his final massive shot could possibly be the BL victory. Hardly anybody would really feel sorry for him.
That is how Marco Reus mentioned goodbye:
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