We don't want to coddle the youngsters, but accompany them sensibly through their 70 or hour week," explained Ricken, who has been in the job for more than a decade and aspires to making well-rounded humans just in case the football dream fades. You develop values like team-playing, respect, resilience, you learn a lot about the world.
Our aim is to develop youngsters so they can be successful in other areas of life, not just football. To ensure the conveyor belt of talent keeps rolling, the system is a continual work in progress, particularly as Ricken's fellow academy directors are equipping themselves ever more effectively in the race to acquire the continent's best talent. It's possible that, as a result of the economic situation, the significance of youth development will increase at many clubs.
It would be tough for Dortmund to up their commitment to guiding youngsters from academy to first team, and they already look to have 'the next big thing' in their productive pipeline. Youssoufa Moukoko is playing — and breaking scoring records — for Dortmund's U19 team at the age of 15 , and made his Germany U16 debut when he was just He's a prodigy with a capital P.
By the end of this season, so after about three years in the U17 and U19 teams, he will have scored to goals in the Junior Bundesliga. So, it makes sense to take him to the highest level. Get your front row seat to the Bundesliga experience by signing up for our official newsletter:. Jadon Sancho c. Jadon Sancho's dribbling skills have made him a star in the Bundesliga.
Christian Pulisic made a name for himself as a teenage prodigy at Borussia Dortmund. Lars Ricken was a Champions League hero with Dortmund in and is now the club's youth academy director. Take a look at the beta version of dw.
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You can find more information in our data protection declaration. Borussia Dortmund were stunned in Amsterdam by a stunning performance from hosts Ajax. Dortmund's Dutch opponents delivered such a dynamic display the Bundesliga side stood no chance. After almost two years away, nearly 3, Borussia Dortmund fans traveled to watch their team in Europe on a Tuesday night. They will have left as dazed and confused as Dortmund's players following a scintillating performance from Ajax that handed Dortmund their biggest ever loss in the Champions League.
The home side played the kind of free-flowing, fast, fantastic football that rendered Dortmund's efforts irrelevant.
That is not to say Dortmund weren't bad — sloppy defensive errors, poor use of wide areas and an inability to wrestle any control in the middle all proved costly — but Ajax were so good it didn't seem to matter what Dortmund did. Mats Hummels couldn't keep up with Antony, and the resulting foul led to Ajax's opener when Marco Reus flicked Dusan Tadic's free-kick into his own net. On Wednesday, Borussia Dortmund will enter into the biggest match of their season so far, and one which will go a long way toward defining the relative success of their season.
There is little margin for error as they receive Benfica for the return leg of their Champions League last tie, backed by the famous Yellow Wall but lacking the safety net of an away goal in hand. They will not, however, stray too far from their principles. The task of supporting goal Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will most likely fall to a pair of teenagers, the year-old Ousmane Dembele and Christian Pulisic, who is still There are few clubs who would embrace such a strategy for a crucial sellout match to be played in front of 65,plus.
Then again, Dortmund are not just any club, and the pair are not just any teenagers. If the club's commercial department has shaped BVB's public image around the motto of Echte Liebe "real love" , drawing heavily on the passion of the Westfalen atmosphere, then the football side of the operation has carved its own, complementary niche of outlook in attracting the brightest young talent from across Europe to create a squad for the future.
Three of the those the last of which was the January arrival of Swedish sensation Alexander Isak were teenagers. At most other top-level clubs, this might be seen as a cynical stockpiling of potential stars of the future to keep them from the clutches of competitors and as future transfer-market collateral.
The big difference is that at Dortmund they're not kept parked on the drive for show. They play. Let's look at last summer's arrivals.
Dembele has already become a cornerstone of BVB's attack. Raphael Guerreiro, a relative veteran at 23, has been held up by a couple of minor injuries, but he is also regarded as important to the first team already and is almost always a starter when fit. Emre Mor, at 19 and having arrived from Danish football, has already received five starts.
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