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May I introduce - Derbyhero

Let's look back to the summer of 2010. We had completed the last season on the fifth spot of the table, collected the ticket for the Euroleague and were eager to prove ourselves internationally again. But most of all, as we do in every summer, we were looking forward to the new Bundesliegaseason again. During that summer the news spreat quite quickly. Borussia Dortmund was about to buy a new player from Japan. A 21 year old Japanese lad called Shinji Kagawa. The team he played for then? Cerezo Osaka. I am quite convinced that all of us had never heard of that team before, let alone the player. 27 goals he was supposed to have scored in only 44 games. Quite a number. The price for this new talent? 350 000 Euroes. Training compensation they called it. A fact that amused most all of us while we didn't really take any of that too serious. A young Japanese player who had never tasted the likes of European football before. Surely someone to take a seat on the bench and come in when we are in need. So nobody we need to put a lot of focus on. And how wrong we were.