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Dortmund (AP) - Dortmund's managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke has defended the cheers of the BVB players after the derby victory against FC Schalke 04.
«Just imagine the team going home after the triumph, the fans standing outside cheering and our players sitting like wax figures inside the bus without facial expressions or gestures.
It can't be, "said the 61-year-old in an interview with Sport1, adding:" Nevertheless, we all have to obey the rules! "
In front of the training grounds of the Dortmund Bundesliga club, there was a gathering of larger fan groups on Saturday evening.
After the jubilee celebrations, BVB admitted violations of the corona rules.
The players also celebrated on the bus without masks and filmed it “in exuberance”, as the club announced.
A video that was temporarily published on Mahmoud Dahoud's account on Instagram showed Marco Reus, Erling Haaland, Emre Can & Co. cheering fans behind the windshield, who greeted them with Pyro.
The players sang BVB songs and chanted “Derby winners”.
The more than ten-minute video was deleted on Sunday night.
"But it is important, and I would like to emphasize this again at this point, that no player went out of the bus and celebrated with the fans", Watzke now emphasized at Sport1.
BVB will accept a penalty from the German Football League and draw its lessons from the case, said Watzke: “We will work through the case and work with the police and everyone involved to ensure that something like this does not happen again.
As Borussia Dortmund, we have a great responsibility.
We sincerely apologize. "
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