Held, Redder and co: These 1966 winners will witness BVB’s shirt tribute | OneFootball

While Borussia Dortmund's jersey for the Club World Cup played in the summer received a noticeably mixed response, the verdict on the design of the new BVB Cup jersey is significantly more positive. It is designed as a tribute to the winners of the 1966 Cup Winners' Cup, some of whom are still alive to witness this special honor of their sporting achievement.

This is the pleasant aspect for the designers of a professional club's jerseys, when it has already experienced numerous successful eras. The current home jersey of Borussia Dortmund takes cues from the outstanding 1990s, marked by two German championships. For the Cup jersey, which will be used in the DFB Cup and in the Champions League – here are the eight BVB opponents in the league phase – the design was inspired by three decades earlier.

In 1966, the European Cups were still young. The European Cup of National Champions was first held in 1956, that of the Cup Winners in 1960. Until the final in Glasgow, which Borussia Dortmund won 2:1 a.e.t. against the favored FC Liverpool, no German team had won either of the two competitions. The previous year, TSV 1860 Munich had reached the final, but lost to West Ham United.

The joy was all the greater not only among BVB fans, but throughout football Germany, when the Dortmund team returned from Scotland with the trophy in their luggage, having become the first German European Cup winners.

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Wolfgang Paul one of the BVB heroes of 1966

Considering that 59 years have passed since then, many of the players from that time have already passed away. Among them are Hans Tilkowski, Dieter "Hoppy" Kurrat, Rudi Assauer, Alfred "Aki" Schmidt or Reinhard "Stan" Libuda, numerous greats of BVB's club history and not least of Ruhr area football.

However, some players are still alive to witness this tribute in the form of a jersey design by their former club. First and foremost Sigfried "Siggi" Held. The scorer of the 1:0 at Hampden Park recently celebrated his 80th birthday. Of the eleven players who were on the pitch in Glasgow, Wolfgang Paul, who still occasionally goes to the BVB stadium, and Theo Redder are also still alive. Also still among the living are Jürgen Weber and Reinhold Wosab, who were in the squad that season. They will have noticed the tribute to their 1966 success just as much as the players who were used in the final at the time.

Now BVB players like Serhou Guirassy, Julian Brandt or soon Nico Schlotterbeck play in a design that takes clear cues from that of 1966.

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