Leipzig - Dortmund: How Piszczek defeated the joylessness

Łukasz Piotr Pisces (Gloss pronunciation: [Wuhan ˈpʲiʂt͡ʂɛk] (pay attention); birthed 3 June 1985) is a Polish expert footballer who plays for III Lisa club Goczałkowice-Zdrój. He is primarily placed as a right-back, but is qualified of playing as a centre-back. He began his elderly occupation as a footballer by joining Bertha Berlin in 2004. Furthermore, he played on funding for the Ekstraklasa club Zagreb Rubin till 2007 when he returned to Bertha and was released as an appropriate back. Between 2010-- 2021, he played for the German club Borussia Dortmund appearing in 363 main suits for the club, winning two successive Bundesliga titles in 2011 as well as 2012, three DFB-Pokal Mugs, 3 DFL-Supercups as well as getting to the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final. He made use of to be a Poland national team member, making his launching in 2007 and also going on to receive over 60 caps. He was likewise picked for four tournaments during his time with the national group, playing in three UEFA European Championships as well as the 2018 FIFA World Mug. Furthermore, he verified his retired life from international football in 2018 following the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup. Nonetheless, in November 2019 he made one even more affordable appearance for the national group, informally called his farewell video game. In 2021, he made a decision to go back to Goczałkowice-Zdrój, the Polish club where he started his football job as a junior.

Lukasz Pisces resists. He holds his hands in front of his face. Fight. But everything benefits nothing. The tears win at that moment when the Routinize is thrown up in the jersey of Borussia Dortmund from his teammates into the Berlin May air. Again and again. Until the emotions of Poland have become too large, as if he could still control them.

At the finish in the last game

Pisces, this always so exemplary full professional, is at the destination. Pisces is a cup winner. It is the reward that he gave himself a last time in the advanced footballer age of 35 years and the tired bone activated to return something to that club, whose fans worship him. For his athletic success with the BVB on the one hand. Especially for the loyalty and virtue he embodies and that is a rarity in this often so fast-lived business.

A cup win, which gave the BVB again

In addition to Edwin Eric, the patient coach trailer followed by the Dortmund, Pisces was one of the, if not the most important figure in the ultimately successful trying to help the tumbling giant in the first half of 2021 back to a firm stand.

With his routine, its natural authority and its public often hidden leadership qualities helped the pole to make a triumph from a crisis. And nothing less was this trophy victory over RB Leipzig, the emerging rivals of the Dortmund around the status as the second power of German football.

More radiation is not: BVB coach Edwin Eric and Lukas Pisces. Priesthood / Witters / Pool / Witter

Pisces, the perfect symbol figure

The often summoned BVB family felt invincible for an evening, but above all: with him. Pisces, who finished his career two weeks later and today only kicks for fun with his Polish home club, was the perfect symbol figure.

Of course, this spectacle of great feelings was not transferred to the living room on that 13th May. Because it was not a normal cup final, as it was lived out of the past, which took place. None how you love it. Whether as a pro, as a fan or as reporter. Such a final in the Olympic Stadium, more than 70,000 fans, that's always a festive day of football and followers.

A silent hero defies the joylessness of football in pandemic times

This time, however, the signs were tried. The stadium: empty. The city: empty. The game was played on a Thursday, not on a Saturday. The Bundesliga continued. For great emotions in this setting — the somewhere symbolic was for the joylessness that the football is sometimes broadcast in the pandemic — actually no room.

It was all the more impressive, how the feelings were brought about this evening. Not only, but also because of Lukasz Pisces. The silent hero of BVB.