Dortmund happy to have complete squad for pre-season

Three weeks after their final match on the Membership World Cup in the USA, Borussia Dortmund will begin their preparations for the brand new season on Saturday and membership bosses are glad to have an entire squad obtainable.

“We begin getting ready for the upcoming season all collectively. That is a bonus in comparison with the earlier years,” Dortmund managing director for sport Lars Ricken advised dpa.

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Injured defender Nico Schlotterbeck is the one participant who will not be obtainable to educate Niko Kovac.

As with each prime group, some prime gamers are often lacking firstly of the pre-season because of prolonged holidays following nationwide group commitments on the finish of every season.

This time, nevertheless, all the squad went on trip collectively in the beginning of July as a result of Membership World Cup and membership bosses imagine that the three weeks of extra workload within the US could have an enduring profit for the brand new season.

“I feel the group has continued to develop collectively. We had been collectively the entire time. It was for much longer than a coaching camp,” sporting director Sebastian Kehl mentioned.

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Dortmund reached the quarter-finals of the revamped Membership World Cup, however had been eradicated after a 3-2 defeat to Actual Madrid.

“We’re seventh within the European rankings, reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League and at the moment are among the many prime eight on this planet. That is one thing to be happy with,” Ricken mentioned.

Nevertheless, in an interview with the Ruhr Nachrichten newspaper, he pressured: “It will be insanity to set the Bundesliga title as a aim after final season, through which we had been 25 factors behind (champions Bayern Munich). However, we will need to have the ambition to win one other title.”