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24/25, Bundesliga, Bundesligasaison, Training
Montag 18.11.2024, 1. Fussball - Bundesliga Saison 24/25 - Training in Dortmund, .BV Borussia Dortmund - Training - .Giovanni Reyna (BVB)..Copyright:.Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA.Rheinlanddamm 207-209.44137 Dortmund..(NO IPTC-stripping allowed).EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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Here is an overview of all the international action involving BVB players.","exportedType":"text/html"},"scheduledPush":{"multiLine":false,"dataType":"boolean","name":"scheduledPush","title":"Scheduled Push Notification?","multiValue":false,"value":false,"exportedType":"boolean"},"disableAdsOnNewsPage":{"multiLine":false,"dataType":"boolean","name":"disableAdsOnNewsPage","title":"Disable Ads on News Page","multiValue":false,"value":false,"exportedType":"boolean"},"text":{"multiLine":true,"dataType":"string","name":"text","html":"After his promotion to first-choice goalkeeper for Switzerland, Gregor Kobel is still awaiting his first clean sheet with the national team. But the 26-year-old again showed his class in the game against Serbia in Zurich on Friday night. In the 54th minute of the encounter, the BVB goalkeeper saved an Aleksandar Mitrovic penalty with his foot. The match ended in a 1-1 share of the spoils between Switzerland and Serbia. The result condemned Kobel & co. to relegation from League A of the UEFA Nations League. <\/p>\nIt was a much better night for the Germany U21s, who after recently securing qualification for the EURO faced Denmark in a friendly fixture in Aachen. The Dortmund striker Maximilian Beier was in the starting line-up for the young German side in their 3-0 victory. Beier had a key role to play in the opening goal in the fifth minute: he fired a shot on goal which struck the upright, but the rebound fell kindly to Hannover's Nicolo Tresoldi, who had a simple finish to make it 1-0. The Black & Yellow forward was substituted off in the 65th minute. He was replaced by Youssoufa Moukoko, who is currently out on loan at OGC Nice from BVB. Moukoko scored the final goal to secure a 3-0 win for Germany.<\/p>\n<img src=\"/content/dam/bvbweb/en/news/profis/2024/11/16/l-nderspielupdate/Ryerson.png\" data-assetref=\"Ryerson-1731753272833\"><\/p>\nA further three Black & Yellow players were in action on Thursday evening: Julian Ryerson's Norway side enjoyed a 4-1 win over Slovenia, with the BVB full-back playing the full 90 minutes. The win saw Norway leapfrog Slovenia in the table, meaning they are now in second place, level on points with Austria but just behind on goal difference. Austria, for their part, won 2-0 away in Kazakhstan. Marcel Sabitzer was an unused substitute. Elsewhere, Ramy Bensebaini's Algeria drew 0-0 with Equatorial Guinea. The BVB defender was substituted off at half-time. <\/p>\nFilippo Mané (Italy U20s) and Almugera Kabar (Germany U19s) were successful with their respective youth national teams. Mané's Italy beat Poland 3-2, while Kabar's Germany ran out 3-1 winners over Cyprus. <\/p>\n","title":"Text","multiValue":false,"value":"After his promotion to first-choice goalkeeper for Switzerland, Gregor Kobel is still awaiting his first clean sheet with the national team. But the 26-year-old again showed his class in the game against Serbia in Zurich on Friday night. In the 54th minute of the encounter, the BVB goalkeeper saved an Aleksandar Mitrovic penalty with his foot. The match ended in a 1-1 share of the spoils between Switzerland and Serbia. The result condemned Kobel & co. to relegation from League A of the UEFA Nations League. <\/p>\nIt was a much better night for the Germany U21s, who after recently securing qualification for the EURO faced Denmark in a friendly fixture in Aachen. The Dortmund striker Maximilian Beier was in the starting line-up for the young German side in their 3-0 victory. Beier had a key role to play in the opening goal in the fifth minute: he fired a shot on goal which struck the upright, but the rebound fell kindly to Hannover's Nicolo Tresoldi, who had a simple finish to make it 1-0. The Black & Yellow forward was substituted off in the 65th minute. He was replaced by Youssoufa Moukoko, who is currently out on loan at OGC Nice from BVB. Moukoko scored the final goal to secure a 3-0 win for Germany.<\/p>\n<img src=\"/content/dam/bvbweb/en/news/profis/2024/11/16/l-nderspielupdate/Ryerson.png\" data-assetref=\"Ryerson-1731753272833\"><\/p>\nA further three Black & Yellow players were in action on Thursday evening: Julian Ryerson's Norway side enjoyed a 4-1 win over Slovenia, with the BVB full-back playing the full 90 minutes. The win saw Norway leapfrog Slovenia in the table, meaning they are now in second place, level on points with Austria but just behind on goal difference. Austria, for their part, won 2-0 away in Kazakhstan. Marcel Sabitzer was an unused substitute. Elsewhere, Ramy Bensebaini's Algeria drew 0-0 with Equatorial Guinea. 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Júlio César, Dede, Felipe Santana and Ewerthon are just a few examples, as is the flamboyant Marcio Amoroso. They all wrote history and stories in Black & Yellow. Now Yan Couto wants to join their ranks. The 22-year-old has one thing in common with BVB legend Dede: he plays in the full-back position.<\/p>\n","title":"Teaser Text","multiValue":false,"value":"Borussia Dortmund and players from Brazil have made for an iconic pairing. Júlio César, Dede, Felipe Santana and Ewerthon are just a few examples, as is the flamboyant Marcio Amoroso. They all wrote history and stories in Black & Yellow. Now Yan Couto wants to join their ranks. The 22-year-old has one thing in common with BVB legend Dede: he plays in the full-back position.","exportedType":"text/html"},"scheduledPush":{"multiLine":false,"dataType":"boolean","name":"scheduledPush","title":"Scheduled Push Notification?","multiValue":false,"value":false,"exportedType":"boolean"},"disableAdsOnNewsPage":{"multiLine":false,"dataType":"boolean","name":"disableAdsOnNewsPage","title":"Disable Ads on News Page","multiValue":false,"value":false,"exportedType":"boolean"},"text":{"multiLine":true,"dataType":"string","name":"text","html":"We're in the third international break of the season - you're currently focusing on your comeback at BVB.<\/b> You made your debut for the Brazilian national team almost exactly a year ago, in the 1-1 draw against Venezuela in Cuiabá.<\/b> What was your experience of the game?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nEven a year later, I can hardly put that feeling into words. It was an incredible moment in my life. I thanked God and my family and everyone who accompanied me on the way there. Danilo got injured just before the end of the first half and I barely had time to stretch and warm up a bit. But in those few seconds, I thought about everything I had done to make this dream come true. And of course I was a bit nervous. Me in the Seleçao! Together with players like Neymar and Vinicius Junior. What a great day for me and my family! \n<\/p>\nWas that even more moving than winning the U17 World Cup at home in Brazil five years ago?<\/b> Back then, you set up the goal in stoppage time to win the final 2-1 against Mexico.<\/b> \n<\/p>\nIt's difficult to compare the two. Of course, it was also a very emotional occasion, because when do you ever become world champion, and then in front of your compatriots? But it was the U17s, not the big Seleçao that every boy in Brazil dreams of.<\/p>\n<img src=\"/content/dam/bvbweb/en/news/profis/2024/11/13/couto-aus-der-borussia/Couto2.png\" data-assetref=\"Couto2-1731409629639\"><\/p>\nPelé, Garrincha, Zico, Ronaldo - there are all kinds of legends in Brazil that young players are only too keen to emulate.<\/b> Who is your idol?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nCristiano Ronaldo! Yes, not a Brazilian, but a Portuguese. That may be unusual, but Cristiano is also an unusual footballer. Look at how he moves on and off the pitch, how he organises his whole life around giving everything for the sport. How hard he works for it, even now at the age of 39. But I also admire Neymar, a great player and person, he helped me a lot when I made my debut for the national team. I enjoyed playing with him. You can tell how important he is by how much the Seleçao have missed him recently because of that serious knee injury. Neymar and Cristiano are the two footballers who inspire me the most. \n<\/p>\nEven if they play in a different position to you?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nYes, but at the end of the day we all play football and they do things on the pitch that nobody else can do. That's what counts. \n<\/p>\nWhat type of footballer are you?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nI'm a right winger who tries to interpret the game in a modern way, i.e. to do the defensive work at the back without making mistakes and to bring in creative elements up front. My speed and technique help me to do this. I'll do everything I can to experience great times with the Borussia fans in the Bundesliga and the Champions League. \n<\/p>\nYou signed a contract with Manchester City at the age of 18 and have been loaned out to other clubs ever since, to Girona, Braga and then Girona again.<\/b> Spain and Portugal are also a long way from Brazil, but the temperature and language are very similar.<\/b> And Germany?<\/b> It must be a completely different world for you...<\/b> \n<\/p>\nThat's true. Portugal was very close to my home country, there are a lot of Brazilians playing in the league there, and in Spain too. Germany is a completely new experience, a different culture and language, and it's supposed to get a bit colder in winter. But my world is football, and it's played according to the same rules in Germany as in Brazil, Spain or Portugal. Of course, I still have to get used to certain things here and there, but that will come.<\/p>\n<img src=\"/content/dam/bvbweb/en/news/profis/2024/11/13/couto-aus-der-borussia/Couto1.png\" data-assetref=\"Couto1-1731409652643\"><\/p>\nBefore you signed for Manchester, Pep Guardiola said you had to learn to speak English better than Gabriel Jesus.<\/b> In Girona, you delighted the fans by learning a bit of Catalan.<\/b> And now?<\/b> How are your German skills?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nHa, good point! I'm still struggling a bit with the German language. Nobody in the team speaks Portuguese apart from me, but in the dressing room we communicate in English, which works very well. And German? Hmm. I don't know much more than \u2018thank you\u2019 and \u2018good morning\u2019 yet. I have to and will work on that. \n<\/p>\nWhat did you already know about the Bundesliga before the season?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nAt home, we tended to pay attention to the Premier League or the Spanish league. I know the German clubs from the Champions League, especially Bayern and Dortmund. Big clubs that everyone in Brazil knows, of course. That's why I was so pleased to receive the offer from Borussia. As far as the other teams in the league are concerned, it's still new territory for me, a great adventure. \n<\/p>\nWhich Dortmund players did you already know during your time in Spain?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nPretty much all of them! Borussia is a big club and didn't reach the final of the Champions League last season by chance. Marcel Sabitzer, Niki Süle, Greg Kobel, Julian Brandt and Waldemar Anton. And of course Gio Reyna, he played with the USA at the Copa America in the summer. I could list the whole team now, but you know them well enough yourself. They are all excellent footballers and I enjoy being with them every day. \n<\/p>\nThere is a very special relationship between Dortmund and your home country.<\/b> No other nation has produced as many players as Brazil.<\/b> \n<\/p>\nI'm aware of that, and of course I know a few names from the past. Tinga, Evanilson or Marcio Amoroso. And of course Dedé and Felipe Santana, I had a churrasco, a Brazilian barbecue, with both of them in the summer. I know about the special history here and will do everything I can to help write a new, successful chapter.<\/p>\n<img src=\"/content/dam/bvbweb/en/news/profis/2024/11/13/couto-aus-der-borussia/Couto3.png\" data-assetref=\"Couto3-1731409641799\"><\/p>\nWhen Dedé wanted to drive to training one morning during his first German winter, the windscreen of his car was frozen.<\/b> So he left the car because he thought the windscreen was broken...<\/b> \n<\/p>\nI've never experienced a German winter, but I spent three years in northern Spain. It's only 50 kilometres from Girona to the Pyrenees, and of course it snows there too. But I am aware of the fact that the winter in Dortmund will be a little different to what I have been used to so far. I see it as a challenge! And as we all know, you grow with challenges. \n<\/p>\nThere was a time when German footballers also left their mark in Brazil.<\/b> Do you know who Fritz Essenfelder was?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nI have no idea! \n<\/p>\nA German-Argentine who came to Brazil from Buenos Aires in 1909, he brought the first football to Curitiba and founded Coritiba FC there.<\/b> His picture still hangs in the club museum today.<\/b> Your home club is a German invention, so to speak!<\/b> \n<\/p>\nOh, really? I know that there are many people with German roots in and around Curitiba, but I've never heard that my club was founded by Germans. I probably had to come to Dortmund for that. \n<\/p>\nYou played an incredible season with Girona last year.<\/b> As a team of no names, you led the league for a long time and ended up qualifying for the Champions League in a commanding third place.<\/b> How difficult was it for you to leave this club?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nIt was a very emotional farewell. Girona is not just any club for me. I spent three very formative years there, but everything comes to an end. That's football. \n<\/p>\nAt Girona, you not only caused a stir with your dribbling on the right wing, but also with your hair.<\/b> It was dyed pink.<\/b> \n<\/p>\nThat was one of my ideas at the start of last season because I wanted to send out a personal signal. It was supposed to be a very special season for me, and that's exactly what it turned out to be. What's more, pink is my sister's favourite colour. I think this look was perfect for Spain and Girona, but now I'm in Dortmund. Look at my hair: It's black again, like coal, so it's perfect for BVB, isn't it?<\/p>\n<img src=\"/content/dam/bvbweb/en/news/profis/2024/11/13/couto-aus-der-borussia/Couto4.png\" data-assetref=\"Couto4-1731409620636\"><\/p>\nYan Couto's career: one of the top 60 at 17  \n<\/i><\/p>\nAt the age of ten, Yan Couto, born on 3 June 2002, became a member of the youth team in his hometown of Curitiba.<\/i> In 2019, he won the World Cup title with the Brazilian U17 team.<\/i> The Guardian newspaper included him in a list of the 60 greatest talents in the world of football.<\/i> A year later, he moved to Manchester City and was loaned out to FC Girona, for whom he played a total of 95 games (five goals, 17 assists).<\/i> In the meantime, in the 2021/22 season, he played for SC Braga (42 appearances, one goal, four assists).<\/i> On 13 October 2023, the 1.68-metre-tall full-back made his debut for the Brazilian senior national team, for which he has made four appearances to date.<\/i><\/p>\nInterview: Sven Goldmann<\/i><\/p>\nPhotos: Alexandre Simoes<\/i><\/p>\n","title":"Text","multiValue":false,"value":"We're in the third international break of the season - you're currently focusing on your comeback at BVB.<\/b> You made your debut for the Brazilian national team almost exactly a year ago, in the 1-1 draw against Venezuela in Cuiabá.<\/b> What was your experience of the game?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nEven a year later, I can hardly put that feeling into words. It was an incredible moment in my life. I thanked God and my family and everyone who accompanied me on the way there. Danilo got injured just before the end of the first half and I barely had time to stretch and warm up a bit. But in those few seconds, I thought about everything I had done to make this dream come true. And of course I was a bit nervous. Me in the Seleçao! Together with players like Neymar and Vinicius Junior. What a great day for me and my family! \n<\/p>\nWas that even more moving than winning the U17 World Cup at home in Brazil five years ago?<\/b> Back then, you set up the goal in stoppage time to win the final 2-1 against Mexico.<\/b> \n<\/p>\nIt's difficult to compare the two. Of course, it was also a very emotional occasion, because when do you ever become world champion, and then in front of your compatriots? But it was the U17s, not the big Seleçao that every boy in Brazil dreams of.<\/p>\n<img src=\"/content/dam/bvbweb/en/news/profis/2024/11/13/couto-aus-der-borussia/Couto2.png\" data-assetref=\"Couto2-1731409629639\"><\/p>\nPelé, Garrincha, Zico, Ronaldo - there are all kinds of legends in Brazil that young players are only too keen to emulate.<\/b> Who is your idol?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nCristiano Ronaldo! Yes, not a Brazilian, but a Portuguese. That may be unusual, but Cristiano is also an unusual footballer. Look at how he moves on and off the pitch, how he organises his whole life around giving everything for the sport. How hard he works for it, even now at the age of 39. But I also admire Neymar, a great player and person, he helped me a lot when I made my debut for the national team. I enjoyed playing with him. You can tell how important he is by how much the Seleçao have missed him recently because of that serious knee injury. Neymar and Cristiano are the two footballers who inspire me the most. \n<\/p>\nEven if they play in a different position to you?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nYes, but at the end of the day we all play football and they do things on the pitch that nobody else can do. That's what counts. \n<\/p>\nWhat type of footballer are you?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nI'm a right winger who tries to interpret the game in a modern way, i.e. to do the defensive work at the back without making mistakes and to bring in creative elements up front. My speed and technique help me to do this. I'll do everything I can to experience great times with the Borussia fans in the Bundesliga and the Champions League. \n<\/p>\nYou signed a contract with Manchester City at the age of 18 and have been loaned out to other clubs ever since, to Girona, Braga and then Girona again.<\/b> Spain and Portugal are also a long way from Brazil, but the temperature and language are very similar.<\/b> And Germany?<\/b> It must be a completely different world for you...<\/b> \n<\/p>\nThat's true. Portugal was very close to my home country, there are a lot of Brazilians playing in the league there, and in Spain too. Germany is a completely new experience, a different culture and language, and it's supposed to get a bit colder in winter. But my world is football, and it's played according to the same rules in Germany as in Brazil, Spain or Portugal. Of course, I still have to get used to certain things here and there, but that will come.<\/p>\n<img src=\"/content/dam/bvbweb/en/news/profis/2024/11/13/couto-aus-der-borussia/Couto1.png\" data-assetref=\"Couto1-1731409652643\"><\/p>\nBefore you signed for Manchester, Pep Guardiola said you had to learn to speak English better than Gabriel Jesus.<\/b> In Girona, you delighted the fans by learning a bit of Catalan.<\/b> And now?<\/b> How are your German skills?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nHa, good point! I'm still struggling a bit with the German language. Nobody in the team speaks Portuguese apart from me, but in the dressing room we communicate in English, which works very well. And German? Hmm. I don't know much more than \u2018thank you\u2019 and \u2018good morning\u2019 yet. I have to and will work on that. \n<\/p>\nWhat did you already know about the Bundesliga before the season?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nAt home, we tended to pay attention to the Premier League or the Spanish league. I know the German clubs from the Champions League, especially Bayern and Dortmund. Big clubs that everyone in Brazil knows, of course. That's why I was so pleased to receive the offer from Borussia. As far as the other teams in the league are concerned, it's still new territory for me, a great adventure. \n<\/p>\nWhich Dortmund players did you already know during your time in Spain?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nPretty much all of them! Borussia is a big club and didn't reach the final of the Champions League last season by chance. Marcel Sabitzer, Niki Süle, Greg Kobel, Julian Brandt and Waldemar Anton. And of course Gio Reyna, he played with the USA at the Copa America in the summer. I could list the whole team now, but you know them well enough yourself. They are all excellent footballers and I enjoy being with them every day. \n<\/p>\nThere is a very special relationship between Dortmund and your home country.<\/b> No other nation has produced as many players as Brazil.<\/b> \n<\/p>\nI'm aware of that, and of course I know a few names from the past. Tinga, Evanilson or Marcio Amoroso. And of course Dedé and Felipe Santana, I had a churrasco, a Brazilian barbecue, with both of them in the summer. I know about the special history here and will do everything I can to help write a new, successful chapter.<\/p>\n<img src=\"/content/dam/bvbweb/en/news/profis/2024/11/13/couto-aus-der-borussia/Couto3.png\" data-assetref=\"Couto3-1731409641799\"><\/p>\nWhen Dedé wanted to drive to training one morning during his first German winter, the windscreen of his car was frozen.<\/b> So he left the car because he thought the windscreen was broken...<\/b> \n<\/p>\nI've never experienced a German winter, but I spent three years in northern Spain. It's only 50 kilometres from Girona to the Pyrenees, and of course it snows there too. But I am aware of the fact that the winter in Dortmund will be a little different to what I have been used to so far. I see it as a challenge! And as we all know, you grow with challenges. \n<\/p>\nThere was a time when German footballers also left their mark in Brazil.<\/b> Do you know who Fritz Essenfelder was?<\/b> \n<\/p>\nI have no idea! \n<\/p>\nA German-Argentine who came to Brazil from Buenos Aires in 1909, he brought the first football to Curitiba and founded Coritiba FC there.<\/b> His picture still hangs in the club museum today.<\/b> Your home club is a German invention, so to speak!<\/b> \n<\/p>\nOh, really? I know that there are many people with German roots in and around Curitiba, but I've never heard that my club was founded by Germans. 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