BVB star Nmecha shares special bond with next opponents HSV | OneFootball

On the next matchday, Borussia Dortmund will play at home against Hamburger SV. For Felix Nmecha, who has been a Dortmund Borusse since 2023, this is likely to be a special encounter, as MOPO explains. This has to do with his childhood, which he spent until the age of seven in the Hamburg district of Altona.

Although he probably won’t be competing for titles with BVB this season, his performances have been consistently good to very good, so Felix Nmecha has recently become the reinforcement for Borussia Dortmund that was hoped for when he was signed. If things continue to go well for him, he will likely participate with Germany at the 2026 World Cup in Mexico, Canada, and the USA this summer.

But first, the daily business awaits, which for BVB now only means the Bundesliga. The next opponent is Hamburger SV on Saturday, against whom they only managed a 1-1 draw in the first half of the season. They want to do better in this second-leg encounter, and it is expected that Felix Nmecha will once again be in Niko Kovac’s starting eleven.

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Nmecha was an HSV fan as a child

For the Hamburg native, this is likely to be a special match not only because of his origins. As MOPO reveals, Felix Nmecha was actually an HSV fan as a child. This was partly because his older brother Lukas—now a professional footballer himself at Leeds United—chose a FC St. Pauli jersey. Felix wanted to compete with his brother and therefore chose the HSV jersey for himself, which also meant his allegiance to the “Rothosen.”

However, since Nmecha left Hamburg before his seventh birthday—his family moved to England—it is not known whether this bond with HSV continued after the move to another country. But he still has fond memories of that time, when he played in a nearby football cage in his HSV jersey with his brother and other friends, as he told the newspaper before the BVB vs. HSV match. That lasted until their mother called them home—something that definitely won’t be a threat on Saturday when he faces the favorite club of his early childhood.

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