Borussia Dortmund: Kehl speaks of a "feeling of Dortmund" – and means the – BVB

Dortmund. In the end, it will be too much for Hans-Joachim Watzke. For half an hour, the CEO listened to Borussia Dortmund – and increasingly felt that his club was considered too negative by the journalists. "We have been second, DFB Cup winners in the last three years, twice in the quarterfinals of the European Cup and have qualified each time for the Champions League," he said. "Our foundation is already good enough."

But Watzke also knows that his club has done too little of this foundation during the last season, that a lot of luck and weakness of the competition were responsible for that. That's why the general manager is now sitting in the belly of the Dortmund stadium, and that's why Sebastian Kehl is sitting next to him.

Sebastian Kehl talks about the working-clbad city of Dortmund

Aged 38, he is the new head of the Licensed Players Department, a post specially created for the former captain of the BVB. It should help to ensure better and more efficient football in Dortmund in the future. Kehl is supposed to make the connection between the management of Watzke and the sports director Michael Zorc on the one hand and the coaches, the team and the functional team on the other hand – as the first point of contact for the sports sector

. "You can see it this way," says Zorc, as a reporter calls Kehl the King of the summer. And Kehl relies primarily on the identification factor. "We want to create a new feeling in Dortmund," says the 38-year-old. Players should have a feeling for the city of Dortmund and the special relationship of fans to their club. And Kehl wants to raise awareness of the resulting responsibility – in the field, in the cabin and in the outdoor presentation.

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Borussia Dortmund aims to focus on discipline

"With new rules and a clear focus on discipline, we will try to create a new atmosphere," says Kehl.

Watzke, Zorc and Kehl, in their badysis, shared a lack of this discipline External consultant Matthias Sammer identified as a decisive reason for the hectic course of the 2017/18 season. Another aspect: that the management of the club realized too late how much things were in trouble.

Sports director Zorc was on the B1 between the office on the Rheinlanddamm and the training ground in Brackel almost daily. However, because other tasks such as the transfer of business have taken more and more, it has been much too late because coach Peter Bosz 's team slipped more and more. The non-discipline crammed into the team were cracks – which could not be properly cemented until the end of the season.

Kehl should sit on the bench

Kehl should now spend more time with the team, he should close

"We expect a professional attitude, no more, no less", he said.

"We want to change the attitudes of players," says the 38- Year – but also limits: "It will not improve immediately because a newcomer is here.We must invest a lot of time and of communication. "Also during the day.

No final decision has yet been made, but Zorc expects his new colleague to sit next to him on the bench. "It would not bother me," says the athletic director