Kennedyplatz in Essen’s city centre was the venue for a very special small-sided football tournament. Borussia Dortmund were one of eight participating teams competing in a pop-up stadium with space for 3,000 fans. BVB – made up of players from the club’s first and second teams – had to compete in the group phase against Bundesliga team 1. FC Köln and Regionalliga sides SGS Essen U20 and Hannover 96.

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Germany floundered, Flick could not push the right buttons with his personnel, and fans of the national team were left wondering how Flick was any type of upgrade over the last few years under Joachim Löw.

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“Now at the end of the season, we would also like to thank everyone who has contributed to the success of 1. FC Union Berlin. It was extremely challenging circumstances for everyone, so we are all the more pleased for what the team has achieved. So it was obvious for us to do without our logo for the special shirt. With the message on the front, we want to look forward and are pleased to support Union as main sponsor in the season ahead,” said Oschrie Massatschi, Chief Capital Markets Officer at Aroundtown.

“Ivan has been fantastic,” Rodgers told a press conference.

Head coach Mike Tullberg raves about the boys born in 2004: “They were BVB’s most successful class ever and can be proud of what they have achieved. Three of the top talents – Youssoufa Moukoko, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens and Tom Rothe – were promoted to the first-team squad while still teenagers, while Nnamdi Collins and Samuel Bamba made their debuts at U23 level. “And as a team, the players born in 2004 exceeded all expectations in the 2022/23 season,” Mike Tullberg looks back with pride. The head coach and his staff, in turn, have successfully carried out the mission of helping talent to bloom, both individually and as a team. Since Tullberg took charge in the spring of 2020, BVB’s U19s are yet to lose a game in the Bundesliga.

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Milos Veljkovic scored his first-ever goal for Serbia in the 16th minute of their match against Bulgaria, and the fast start helped his side secure the point they needed to seal qualification for next year’s European Championship. Romano Schmid (Austria) and Olivier Deman (Belgium) will also be on the plane to Germany with their national teams next year. Marvin Ducksch made his debut for Germany, who qualify automatically as hosts. While the last round of EURO qualifiers takes place tonight, Nick Woltemade and Germany U21s are still playing to secure their spot at next year’s U21 European Championship. Antonio Di Salvo’s side are yet to drop a point so far from their three games.

Eight senior team transfers in one year is much more than usual for the Bavarian giants. So it might follow that things will slow down considerably in the 2023 summer transfer window.