😍 Hummels back in a Dortmund shirt: how BVB welcome their legend
Before the ball officially starts rolling, the 2014 World Champion was, of course, given a proper farewell by his fans in Dortmund's Westfalenstadion.
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Who knows, maybe he'll convince coach Niko Kovac so much that he'll get another contract after all. We'd celebrate - and one city in the Ruhr area definitely would too.
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