Borussia Dortmund's legends team made a trip to Glasgow last Sunday to play their Celtic counterparts, raising funds for the Scottish champions" foundation. Maybe Dortmund fans do not need any prodding towards nostalgic sentiments at the moment, as their team prepare to return to Wembley for a Champions League final 11 years on from their last one. Same stage, same place.
Nevertheless, there was plenty to comfort those wanting to relive the Jürgen Klopp glory years. Six of the players involved at Wembley in 2013 - Roman Weidenfeller, Lukasz Piszczek, Jakub Blaszczykowski, Marcel Schmelzer, Kevin Grosskreutz, and Oliver Kirch - played at Celtic Park, a welcome chime of past glories before the push to create a new landmark against Real Madrid, going one better than back then.
The way these names trip off the tongue and the images they conjure (along with Marco Reus, playing his last game for the club in this final) is a stark reminder of where this BVB generation is, though.
They do not feel like a particularly historic Dortmund vintage. It has been a season of largely uneven performances, scruffy tactics and serial underachievement as they struggled to get over the last-day heartbreak of relinquishing the Bundesliga title to Bayern Munich last year.
There are names - Emre Can, Marcel Sabitzer, Julian Brandt and more and a coach in Edin Terzic who represents Dortmund through and through, heart and soul. But even if BVB triumph tomorrow this will not go down as one of the club's all-time great teams. More of a Liverpool 2005, full of curios and surprises, rather than Ottmar Hitzfeld's personality-heavy Dortmund of 1997, a collection of born winners.
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