Interview with Norbert Dickel : I can only Dortmund Borussia

Mr Dickel, why are you limping?

It's only been three months that I have a completely new knee joint. I was afraid of the Operation. If everything is healed, should I be for the first time pain free after 30 years.

Since the 24. June 1989. You were a striker at Borussia Dortmund, the club after 23 years without a title in the Cup final. You were injured a short time before at the knee, were, nevertheless, shot two goals. The BVB has been a Cup winner and you the "Hero of Berlin". And also sports an invalid. It was worth it?

to stay The infringement and the game gave me what I always wanted to: namely, the football. Other Ex-pros are in today with nothing. To play at that time, was not a mistake.

you have sacrificed for the club.

Oh. We all thought I would be in 14 days in good shape and continue to play football. Yeah didn't work out so well.

After your career as a player, you have been stadium announcer at BVB. For 27 years, you say to every home, the team line-up by round, the goals and the substitutions. Only twice you have been missing. What was going on there?

Once I was sick, had the flu. The other Time was seven or eight years ago. I had obviously hit the feet in the office, so funny, one above the other, the ankle was thick. The team doctor has me dotted, I had to put me on the bed.

Norbert Dickel

Norbert Dickel, 57,is only addressed by his wife with his real first name. All the others call him Nobbi. As a striker he scored in 1989, the BVB despite a knee injury for the Cup final and the "Hero of Berlin". The game is meant to be the end of career. For 27 years, he is the stadium announcer for Borussia Dortmund, all matches of his club, he commented, also, from a Fan perspective, and sometimes earthy sayings in the BVB Netradio. The Interview Dickel is located in his apartment in Schwelm, about a half-hour drive outside of Dortmund. Here he had the rest you need sometimes. In Dortmund he could go hardly on the road, without being addressed: "I am the common property," says the native of Sauerland. If Dickel says time one of his answers too seriously, he laughs with a thud. The BVB next Saturday for the crunch match in Munich. Both clubs are currently playing in direct competition to the front-most Table positions of the German championship.

What is the BVB makes in a day?

Appropriately, it would have been to postpone the game.

Opera singers avoid spicy food, stretch your face muscles and drink a lot of tea, to maintain your voice. What Tricks do you use?

I have a good friend who is an ENT doctor, which worried me in case it's a drug, it makes the voice fast fit. I don't know if this is still allowed.

your Name is now inextricably linked with Borussia Dortmund, the club in turn, with the Ruhr area. There is just the last coal mine has closed. You will feel a change in the area?

We convert the us to the region of service Providers. Here, there were Hoesch, the steel works, since a lot of people have worked on. Dortmund was always more of a steel town, not a mining town. Where the factory stood, is now the Phoenix lake.

are you afraid that the BVB changed?

Borussia Dortmund, but the football. The 222 million euros for Neymar were for anything in the world. This eternal – always more, always more expensive, bigger – can I find questionable. We must take care that the tradition of the clubs to keep their traditions. We had luckily always critical of people for whom this is important. The wrong impression is not created: the BVB pays peanuts, but if we had a single player who, say, 60 million would earn – that would be difficult to convey.

you were after your knee injury shortly before the Ruin. The career was coming to an end, the insurance refused to pay.

As a player, you deserve to be in the top of a maximum of 300 000 Mark gross in a year. Today, the collect some of the top players in two days. I had bought in may 1989, a house in June that was the final, in December, I finished my active career final. Not a million, out of a Job, a house to the jaw. I started the drive drums for the conveyor belt to sell assets. I know not exactly what this is. After that, I worked at least with a sporting goods manufacturer and later a kitchen Studio opened. At the beginning of the 90s, I had three Jobs in three years, of which I had zero idea.

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