(Champions League) Borussia Dortmund Vs Monaco : Match Preview And Predictions


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Borussia Dortmund vs Monaco
UEFA Champions League Quarter Final First Leg
Date: Tuesday, 11th April 2017
Kick-off at 19:45 UK / 20:45 CET
Venue: Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund

The German side Borussia Dortmund will welcom the French side Monaco to Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany for the Quarter Final fixture the UEFA Champions League. Both teams have done really well to reach this stage of the competition, laying waste Benfica and Manchest City in the knock out stage.


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Borussia Dortmund History

The club was founded on 19 December 1909 by a group of young men unhappy with church-sponsored Trinity Youth , where they played football under the stern and unsympathetic eye of the local parish priest. Father Dewald was blocked at the door when he tried to break up the organizing meeting being held in a room of the local pub, Zum Wildschütz . The founders were Franz and Paul Braun, Henry Cleve, Hans Debest, Paul Dziendzielle, Franz, Julius and Wilhelm Jacobi, Hans Kahn, Gustav Müller, Franz Risse, Fritz Schulte, Hans Siebold, August Tönnesmann, Heinrich and Robert Unger, Fritz Weber, Franz Wendt and Benno Elkan. The name Borussia is Latin for Prussia but was taken from Borussia beer from the nearby Borussia brewery in Dortmund. The team began playing in blue and white striped shirts with a red sash, and black shorts. In 1913, they donned the black and yellow stripes so familiar today.

Over the next decades the club enjoyed only modest success playing in local leagues. They had a brush with bankruptcy in 1929 when an attempt to boost the club's fortunes by signing some paid professional footballers failed miserably and left the team deep in debt. They survived only through the generosity of a local supporter who covered the team's shortfall out of his own pocket.

The 1930s saw the rise of the Third Reich , which restructured sports and football organizations throughout the nation to suit the regime's goals. Borussia' s president was replaced when he refused to join the Nazi Party , and a couple of members who surreptitiously used the club's offices to produce anti-Nazi pamphlets were executed in the last days of the war. The club did have greater success in the newly established Gauliga Westfalen, but would have to wait until after World War II to make a breakthrough. It was during this time that Borussia developed its intense rivalry with
Schalke 04 of suburban Gelsenkirchen , the most successful side of the era (see Revierderby). Like every other organisation in Germany, Borussia was dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities after the war in an attempt to distance the country's institutions from its so-recent Nazi past. There was a short-lived attempt to merge the club with two others –
Werksportgemeinschaft Hoesch and Freier Sportverein 98 – as Sportgemeinschaft Borussia von 1898 , but it was as Ballspiel-Verein Borussia ( BVB) that they made their first appearance in the national league final in 1949, where they lost 2–3 to VfR Mannheim.


Between 1946 and 1963, Borussia featured in the Oberliga West, a first division league which dominated German football through the late 1950s. In 1949 , Borussia reached the final in
Stuttgart against VfR Mannheim , which they lost 2–3 after extra time. The club claimed its first national title in 1956 with a 4–2 win against Karlsruher SC . One year later, Borussia defeated Hamburger SV 4–1 to win their
second national title . After this coup, the three Alfredos ( Alfred Preißler , Alfred Kelbassa and Alfred Niepieklo) were legends in Dortmund. In
1963 , Borussia won the last edition of the
German Football Championship (before the introduction of the new Bundesliga) to secure their third national title.