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Marco Reus extends Dortmund contract until June 2024

Talk about unfeigned loyalty

Dortmund legend, Marco Reus has signed a one-year contract extension with the club until June 2024. The 33-year-old who has been at the Bundesliga club since 2012 has never won the Bundesliga in his career but Borussia Dortmund are just 5 wins away from their first Bundesliga title in a decade. 

“Right now, we as a team, just like all of our fans, have one big goal in mind on which all of our concentration lies: We want to become German champions, and for that we need every single Borussian.” The midfielder said

The club’s captain has scored 6+ goals in each of his 11 Bundesliga seasons with Borussia Dortmund, while no other Dortmund player has managed to score 6+ goals in as many consecutive seasons in the history of the competition. He reportedly agreed to lower his annually salary from €12 million to €7 million.

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Bayern Munich goalkeeper Neuer signs new contract.

Manuel Neuer has signed a new three-year contract with Bayern Munich, keeping him at the club until June 2023.
The 34-year-old Germany international who joined the club  Schalke in 2011 helped them win 18 trophies.

“FC Bayern is very happy and satisfied that Manuel has extended his contract until June 30, 2023. Manuel is the best goalkeeper in the world and our captain.” Bayern chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.

The four-time UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year Manuel Neuer gets a pay rise for his contract extension (previous estimated annual salary 15 million euros). However, Neuer’s new salary does not exceed €20m.

Oliver Kahn, a member of the executive board at Bayern said. “Another big decision for a successful future! Manuel Nuer is the captain and one of the most important pillars of our team. He embodies great years of German football and we’re happy to continue the way of FC Bayern together. This extension is a strong signal.” 

 

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Chelsea, Barca, Dortmund, others, join the missing children initiative.

AS Roma is inspiring Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, and many other European clubs to find missing young people. The project, which will run on International Missing Children’s Day on 25 May, is tagged The ‘Football Cares‘ initiative and is being supported by Fifa.

Other clubs who have signed up include Barcelona, Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan, Juventus, Lazio, Athletico Madrid,  Valencia Cork City and many more. The Italian club showed had been talking about the project since last year and so far six missing children have been found.

Also Read: Barcelona to return to training this week, Bundesliga to resume on May 15th.

“With the huge following and global reach that these clubs boast, we hope that someone, somewhere might recognise one of the missing children in the videos so they can be reunited with their loved ones,” said the European Club Association, co-ordinating the project.

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Barcelona to return to training this week, Bundesliga to resume on May 15th.

Several weeks after all football activities were put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Bundesliga has been given the go ahead to resume playing behind closed doors on May 15th. Not only is football returning, larger shops and schools will also begin to reopen in the coming weeks.

Also, La Liga teams have been given permission to return to training this week following the easing of some restrictions by the Spain government. Barcelona players will be tested for coronavirus at their Ciutat Esportiva training base club’s training ground on Wednesday before resuming individual work “in the coming days.” Barcelona‘s training facilities have been disinfected ahead of the tests  tomorrow. La Liga organisers are confident of a June restart to the season. Players from the top two divisions will train individually after an agreement with Spain’s sports and health authorities that guaranteed the safety of both players and staff.

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Ex Schalke player presumed dead in 2016, found alive and well.

Former Schalke player, Hiannick Kamba has reportedly been found alive and well in Germany, four years after being presumed dead in a car crash in his native Congo in January 2016. German tabloid newspaper, Bild claimed the 33 year-old was found in Gelsenkirchen, where he works as a chemical technician for an energy company in Ruhr.

His club VfB Huls, published an obituary, saying, “He represented the ideas and values ​​of our club like few others. His demise will leave a big gap. Hiannick is undoubtedly a bitter sporting loss for us, but primarily we will miss it as a fellow human being.”

But where has he been all these while?

The talented right-back told the authorities that he was separated from his friends during a trip in Congo and left without any documents, money or a phone.

Public prosecutor, Anette Milk is quoted in the newspaper thus, “Kamba claims he was abandoned by friends overnight in Congo in January 2016 and left without documents, money and a cell phone, In the event of his disappearance, Kamba was pronounced dead in 2016 and his ex-wife claimed a low, six-figure amount on his life insurance.

Also Read: Colleagues, football fans, pay tributes to Rashidi Yekini, 8 years after his demise.

The woman who has a 10 year-old son with him and is being investigated for fraud, denied the fraud charges saying she only found out about the insurance after being informed of his presumed death. However, in 2018 Kamba allegedly went to the German embassy in Kinshasa to report the ‘fake news’ about his death.

The Congolese is currently awaiting a verdict for the ongoing investigation into fraud.

 

 

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