I find it somehow significant that almost all of Dortmund’s youth players have been enticed away by direct competition. Find it a pity that they are allowed to poach around unobserved and turn the kids’ heads. Of the top performers there is no real Dortmund homegrown. Not much of a youth team anymore, more like a third team.
Of course I hope that Mainz 05 will win the final, the lads would have deserved it a lot more and I wouldn’t begrudge Benni Hoffmann either.
Sorry, but that is nonsense. The other user has already pointed out to you that BVB also has many “real” homegrown players.
Otherwise, BVB has been proven to offer one of the best, if not the best, football training for a top talent in Germany. That’s intentional, BVB puts a lot of money into it, that’s how it’s advertised to the outside world. Every top talent in Germany looks at BVB, not because of the south stand, the permeability or Marco Reus, but because the training in the NLZ is so good that an above-average number of talents are then at least enough for league 3.
That is extremely effective and BVB is of course reaping the rewards. Even in Manchester they know what BVB can do when it comes to training.
Of course, one has to say that the “regional connection” is no longer there. But that’s always been a problem in the Ruhr area, where the boys sometimes change clubs like underwear because there are so many. Dortmund has developed into a national and international showcase.
But BVB doesn’t say anywhere that, like Freiburg or Hertha, it wants to train players from the region or the city (“Berliner Jungs”). It’s an international group and that’s how it’s spread on social networks. In Germany, BVB’s U19s are far ahead of all other NLZs in Germany, for example in terms of marketing.
To a good finale. Two of the best NLZs will compete