It was on April 11, 2017 when Thomas Tuchel, then coach of Borussia Dortmund, lived with his team what will undoubtedly always remain as one of the most traumatic experiences of both the German coach's career and those who were his players: the attack with explosives on his coach when the team He was on his way to play the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals against Kylian Mbappé's Monaco at Signal Iduna Park.
UEFA, with the consent of the Dortmund leadership and against Tuchel's opinion, forced that match against the team then led by Leonardo Jardim to be played 24 hours later. The decision of the leaders of the German club caused the estrangement between Tuchel and them. At the end of the season and after winning the Cup, Tuchel said goodbye to Dortmund.
That first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, with the Dortmund players under the weight of the attack a day earlier, ended with a 2-3 victory for the Monegasques with a double from Kylian Mbappé. In the return, 3-1 for Monaco and Mbappé scored the first of his team.
Tuchel (who became the substitute for Unai emery) and Mbappe (that that same 2017 joined the Paris Saint-Germain) met at the Parque de los Príncipes club and now seek to win what would be their first Champions League and also the first for the French team, which by eliminating Atalanta 2-1 in Lisbon on Wednesday reached the second semifinals in its history, after those of 1995.
Tuchel, who was questioned after falling in the last 16 of 2018-19 against Manchester United (Despite winning 0-2 at Old Traffor, fell 1-3 at the Parc des Princes), he celebrated the victory with great intensity despite recovering from a left ankle injury and watched the game on an ice box . “Imagine if I had had both legs good. Maybe I would have sprinted 40 meters. Besides, PSG turns 50 this Wednesday, ”said the German, who has already won the Ligue 1, Cup and League Cup this season.