Today we had UEFA media-day with several press conferences at Dortmund. I would like to share the most remarkable statements from my perspective. To come straight to the point: Nothing was said about transfers and new players. I guess our club won’t do that before the Champions-League final next week and that’s quite impressive.
There had been 160 journalists and 32 TV teams at our press room. They asked their question and here are some answers/statements of Jürgen Klopp, Sebastian Kehl, Roman Weidenfeller. Ilkay Gündogan and Mats Hummels.
JÜRGEN KLOPP:
„Although football is a business, the designation ‘Der Pöhler’, which is on the cap I wear very often, fits perfectly to my team. In the Dortmund area ‘Der Pöhler’ describes the passion for football better than everything else. That’s one reason I like to wear this cap.“
„Mario Götze is still in plan and starts training with the team at the beginning of next week.“
„Actually this young team had become Bundesliga champion too early, they became double-winner to early and now they are in the Champions-League final too early. It’s a kind of fairytale.“
„Lukasz Piszczek plays the most outstanding season. When you thing about the special circumstances, his injury, I am not aware of many players who could do that on such a high level like Lukasz. All three of our polish players play such a good season because they are very good football players and because they benefit from the overall performance of our team as all the other players do. All our three polish player are some of the best ambassadors of their country.“
„With the final our way is not over now. After the final we have to accept the new conditions, that are a result of this final, use them right and continue our progression.“
„To achieve something you have to be ready to dream big and think big. Even if your plunge could be harder afterwards.“
„Bayern are self-confident and feel safe. We don’t think that we could win for no reason, we think we have the chance to win. That’ll have to do.“
„In football everything is possible and we will fight as much as we can for this opportunity.“
„We want to make our parents proud….and if we will win, we are not the best team in the world, but then we beat the maybe the best team of the world.“
„When the match starts, every one of my players will know that everything is possible today. How we will deal with this we will see…“
SEBASTIAN KEHL
„I always thought that this club has a tremendous power from inside to get it done to become one of the best clubs from an economic and sportive perspective. This town lives football. That was the reason I stayed here since in 2005, 2006. Of course I never thought about that big success of the past three years. I believe that Borussia have the power to become the second lighthouse in Germany and I am happy to be part of this development“
ROMAN WEIDENFELLER
„I don’t think our coach would train kicking penalties next week but I can imagine to take a penalty-kick myself, if necessary.“
ILKAY GÜNDOGAN
If Mario could not play, I am able to play as a 10. I did it for years in my youth and I think that I can make it.“
„Our coach told me that Nuri came back before it was officially announced. I didn’t planned on that, it motivated me to improve my performance, the quality of our players got better and as a result I made the next step. However I am really happy that Nuri is back. In the last matches you could see how much he could help our team and he will do that more maybe in the final and next season. We could play very good together in one team at the same time.”
MATS HUMMELS
“It is the complete wrong approach to play the final to screw up Bayerns season. We have the approach and chance to win the most wanted championship in football, that’s our motivation.“
by Marty on Wednesday, 15th 2013
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