In this year's Champions League semi-finals, every team has a reason to win: Real Madrid, as the king of the Champions League, wants to achieve fifteen championships, Bayern wants to avoid the ending of all four, and Paris wants to unlock the first Champions League in team history. As for Dortmund, it seems that they are the runner farthest away from the championship, but they also need to go all out to create a miracle this time, in order to bid farewell to Royce and to give themselves a voice.
The whole world knows that Reus wants to retire at Dortmund. To put it bluntly, Dortmund may not be able to support him for a few years even if they want to, but they have not provided Royce with a lifelong contract. This is really hard to understand. Dortmund is not a top club like Real Madrid, nor does it have the confidence to "see all the stars passing by". Why are they not willing to give some favors to the team history legend who deserves special treatment? What's more, Dortmund is not the kind of team that puts results first, otherwise they wouldn't have developed into Europe's strongest star factory and springboard for wealthy clubs. It is hard to imagine that Royce's career cannot end at the same time as his yellow and black career, and it is even harder to imagine that he wears a jersey other than Dortmund. Even if he does not represent other Bundesliga teams, it is deeply regrettable. Although it is rumored that it is generally the standard ending for European stars to go to the MLS to retire, this should not have been Royce's script.
Reus joined Dortmund's youth training in 1996. He later played for Allen, who was playing in the German third division, and also switched to Borussia Monchengladbach. It took him 16 years to reach the Dortmund first team. In the summer of 2012, Reus returned as a child produced by Dortmund's youth training, and then devoted his best years to this lemon-yellow sea. 12 years is a cycle. How many groups of teammates have changed around Royce: from Lewandowski and Gotze to Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan, from Sancho and Pulisic to Bellingham and Harbin. Rand... He witnessed the rise of so many stars of tomorrow, and then gradually escaped from Dot's gravitational orbit one by one, but he seemed to have forgotten that he was also a small rocket that could have flown to the vaster space, but He would rather be a satellite orbiting Dortmund. In Royce, that sentence is truly demonstrated: choice is greater than effort. But this sentence must have a premise - to measure the level of worldly achievements. There is no distinction in the choice itself. Royce has faced the pursuit of super giants such as Bayern, Paris, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester City, but he has always firmly chosen to stay at Dortmund, which also resulted in zero league goals in his career. Crown story.
Royce is undoubtedly a very tragic figure in football, regardless of his club career or national team career. He stayed with Dortmund for 12 years in exchange for zero Bundesliga titles, but injuries also played tricks on him, causing him to be seriously injured before every major competition, and he missed the highest honor of German football in the 2014 World Cup. In the summer of 2018, Reus represented the German national team in the World Cup for the only time, but ended up being eliminated from the group. Among the German male models, Royce is handsome, but he seems to be the most un-German German. After all, he prefers haircuts, earrings, and a sinister and sinister smile on his lips. But beneath the cynical exterior, there is a traditional core.
So far, Reus has represented Dortmund's first team in 424 appearances in various competitions, scored 168 goals, provided 128 assists, and won two German Cups and three German Super Cup championships. As the second goalscorer in team history, Royce is only 9 goals behind the top scorer in Dortmund Pressler (177 goals), but this gap is like a chasm, and it will be difficult for him to cross it as he has been reduced to a substitute. . Fortunately, Royce's achievements will not be discounted by this mere 9-goal gap. He has given Dortmund, a half-baked giant, a sense of loyalty. The world will not point fingers at his career honors because he has a clear conscience.
In the previous first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Dortmund defeated Paris 1-0 at home. Royce came on as a substitute at the end of the game, facing his old teammate Hummels across the silent years. At that moment, time seemed to go back to the 2012-13 Champions League semi-finals, when Dortmund defeated Real Madrid 4-1 at home. Hummels and Reus both started the game, and Reus also contributed an assist. . At that time, Dortmund reached the final to join Bayern Munich, but unfortunately ended up finishing second.Now, the Champions League final is also expected to be staged once again in the German national derby. If Dortmund can eliminate Paris and reach the final, no matter whether the opponent is Bayern or Real Madrid, I hope they can realize their dream. Of course Dortmund can retire the No. 11 jersey, but they should use a big ear cup to bid farewell to the best Royce.
(Original address of this article: Official account Xiwa Sports)
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