Borussia Dortmund: The long Absence of Reus raises questions

peace and Serenity can learn Marco Reus is currently the best with Donatello and Michelangelo. The two Greek tortoises, which he and his wife Scarlett to 31. Birthday got a gift, are more likely to be leisurely on the road, you rely less on sprint because extensive sun baths.

The after all, your life is content. Reus was, however, forced last, once again, for months to inaction – but that has now finally come to an end. Since Tuesday, the captain of Borussia Dortmund is back in team training, apparently, hope for missions even before the end of the season, but on Saturday (15.30 clock in the F. A. Z.-Liveticker for the football Bundesliga and Sky) at Fortuna Düsseldorf. "He started it, we all hope that it goes as quickly as possible," said coach Lucien Favre on Thursday optimistic, "and that he can play again."

If Marco Reus gets however against Mainz 05, or in the case of RB Leipzig, a half-hour, will be this season most likely, no decisive turning more. More important is the question: Can Reus, without a doubt, one of the most talented players of his Generation, the in-form opponents to despair is to be regarded, by the BVB more as a fixed point of the team? Or the national players, it is definitively a Nice-to-have player, you will be happy if he can complete five games in the series, but that's not? A weapon for the moments in which you work?

"of Course, we are planning with him for the coming season," said Favre energetic. The club announced that the player will complete "in the coming days big parts of the team training and gradually on his Comeback work". The truth: in the past, you were at the BVB, the days, until her captain finally led back to the team. This time, Reus was missing for the first time seriously, the quality in the Dortmund offensive game is tremendous. Erling Haaland and Julian Brandt came, Jadon Sancho plays an outstanding season up to now, 17 goals and 17 templates. Left turns on Raphael Guerreiro, Thorgan Hazard is gaining momentum. A little defensive, Axel Witsel and winter access Emre Can could the threads.

A dependency of Marco Reus, they will not be there anymore. Too often the club has seen, how from an initial failure prognosis of a few weeks, but many months were. According to "Kicker", it was not this time to the communicated muscle injury, but a tendon tear in the adductor area. By means of the corona break, he had "a little more time, the injury," said Reus. His last game was on 4. February.

The "image"-newspaper expects on Monday to time, up to and including Thursday, there are 981 days since Reus in the summer of 2012 from Borussia Mönchengladbach to Dortmund was returned two years and eight and a half months out of a total of seven years and eleven months. The myth is true that a new hairstyle also shows a new stage of life, has made Reus but Large. To appeared his first team training, he with a modified Look that is very reminiscent of the Roman icon Francesco Totti.