Borussia Dortmund is a football club located in North Rhine, western Germany. In the club's history, it has won the European Champions League (UCL, UEFA Champions League) in 1997 and five Bundesliga championships. As the more accomplished teams in the Bundesliga have been relegated to the Bundesliga 2, Dortmund has naturally become the second runner-up in the Bundesliga. There is no doubt that he can be said to be the best example of cultivating European super new stars after the 2010s, starting from a place far away from us. Shinji Kagawa , to the more recent but slightly older Gundogan , and Ousmane Dembele who is currently playing for Barcelona, are all stars who have set records around Dortmund.
As for why Dortmund is so successful in developing European stars? It can be mainly divided into two major points for explanation:
1. Dortmund’s transfer strategy has never been to blindly buy the popular players in Europe. They buy the people the team needs in an orderly manner and will not list the number one target. , Target No. 2, it’s just that there is a lack of outstanding talents in certain positions.
2. They can provide these popular players with a stable opportunity to play. Moreover, based on Dortmund's performance in the league, they must be a team that firmly sits in the Champions League , so they can also get a rare opportunity to play in European competitions. , this alone will definitely defeat many European giants.
The situation that was once on the verge of bankruptcy made Dortmund suffer. In my opinion, after suffering, they learned that money cannot solve any problems, so they began to establish a new team culture. In the original team culture, Strive for victory with all your strength, and change your goal to cultivating combat power. Here is the story of how they became a European star factory in the past 10 years.
At the Munich Olympic Stadium in 1997, it was an important day for Borussia Dortmund Football Club. On this day, they won the only Champions League in the team's history. After winning the Champions League, the team received a high amount of money. bonuses, plus two consecutive Bundesliga championships before winning the Champions League, they were even more keen on the arms race with their arch-rivals Bayern Munich , but in the 1997/98 season, everything completely changed. The king of Europe, in the 1997/98 season, only ranked tenth in the league. However, perhaps the players were overtired by the last season's campaign. In the 1998/99 season, Dortmund secured a place in the Champions League and ranked fourth in the league, but What they don't know is that they are about to experience highs and lows over the next five years as the team's business strategy is to spend huge sums of money to buy superstars, expand stadiums and take the team's stock public.
html The 103/04 season was Dortmund’s dark season. In previous seasons, they were no match for their national derby rival Bayern Munich. Only in the 2001/02 season did they narrowly beat Bayern Munich by 2 points to win the league championship. Most of the time, they lost. To Bayern , and even occasionally lost to the city rivals Schalke 04. After that, Dortmund's financial situation completely made it impossible for the team to continue to support it, and even the players' salaries could hardly be paid. However, at this time Bayern Munich reached out. The helper saved Dortmund and gave them enough funds to maintain the team's operations. As for why Dortmund was saved? Because Bayern Munich wants to maintain the stability and intensity of the Bundesliga , if Dortmund had not been rescued at that time, I can guarantee that in the following seasons, only Bayern Munich will be the league champion. This will not only have a great impact on the development of German local football, but also on tickets. All peripheral profits will be affected to a certain extent, so Bayern Munich decided to lend a helping hand to help Dortmund and maintain the wonderful Bundesliga that you and I saw in the next ten years.
After receiving the lesson of buying stars indiscriminately, Dortmund learned well. They no longer introduce super stars and spend a lot of money in the transfer market. They turn to cultivating young and potential rookies. Dortmund's goal is very clear. They What is needed is rookies aged 16-18 and providing enough playing time, as mentioned above.In addition to goals, they also need methods. They hired Klopp, who is currently the head coach of Liverpool. Before coming to Dortmund, he was only the coach of Mainz in the Bundesliga 2, but Dortmund liked his tactical system and high-pressing style, and recruited him into the team.
In the days that followed until the moment Klopp left, he won two league championships for Dortmund and the Champions League runner-up in the 2012/13 season, losing to the national derby opponent Bayern Munich. It is not so much the system that cultivates young players that has created Dortmund's current achievements, but it is the work of scout Milingstadt. His contribution to the team during the reconstruction period is as much as Klopp's, although both of them are now He is no longer in Dortmund, but the great achievements he left behind will definitely be recorded in the history of the club.
's success in transfers and the good cultivation of stars have gradually emerged from the crisis of bankruptcy. They have made a lot of money for the club through player transactions. However, this time Dortmund did not spend the money randomly at all, but instead Continuing their team building policy, through the cultivation of young talents from major giants and countries, the team has always had a good positive cycle.
The recent Jude Bellingham and Haaland who just transferred to Manchester City are both successful cases of Dortmund. I think for Dortmund fans, the record is no longer the primary team goal. Now, their goal is to develop their stars well and compete with Bayern Munich at the right time.
