Dortmund already has a successor to its myth in sports management

Borussia Dortmund begins to lay the foundations for the future. As the German newspaper 'Kicker' advances, Sebastian Kehl will be in charge of succeeding Michael Zorc as head of the sports area at Signal Iduna Park from 2022. The former Borusser player, a key player in the BVB that won two consecutive Bundesligas in 2011 and 2012 under the orders of Jürgen Klopp, has been serving as general manager of the first team for the last few years and seems to have gained the trust of the bosses in western Germany to continue the work of Zorc, who will leave the club of his life after 23 years as sports director.

Kehl has been closely following the work of Zorc for some time, who knew how to hold his hand to prepare him, in this way, for his future work in the negriamarill teamor. He was part of the team that held negotiations with Marco Rose, Borussia Mönchengladbach coach who will replace Edin Terzic on Borussia's bench in the summer. “I see myself capable of assuming this position and I am convinced that I can do it well”Kehl himself said about what it means to occupy the chair of one of the architects of contemporary Dortmund.

It was the former BVB striker (a member of the historic team that won the Champions League in 1997) and Jürgen Klopp who started a project that led the bees to win two salad bowls and a Pokal over the last decade. Players of the stature of Lewandowski, Aubameyang, Dembélé, Mkhitaryan or Sancho landed in the town of North Rhine-Westphalia thanks to the smell of a Zorc who now gives his place to Kehl. His objective could not be clearer: to fill the void of one of the best sporting directors in the Bundesliga.