Borussia Dortmund will keep players\u2019 parents away from locker room areas after an incident with Jobe Bellingham\u2019s father.<\/p>\n
Mark Bellingham traveled from England to see his son\u2019s Bundesliga debut at St. Pauli on Saturday, but caused a scene in a restricted area of the stadium afterward when he spoke with sporting director Sebastian Kehl. He reportedly demanded to know why his son was taken off at halftime.<\/p>\n
Dortmund managing director Lars Ricken would not comment on the nature of the discussion when asked Sunday, but told Sky TV there would be consequences.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t present for the talk,\u201d said Ricken, who announced that only players, coaches and officials would have access to the locker room areas in future. \u201cWe\u2019ll ensure that we don\u2019t get into a furor again by commenting on such matters.\u201d Ricken also played down the nature of the disagreement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got Jobe Bellingham because we built a trusting relationship with the parents over years,\u201d Ricken said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNow the family came especially over from England for their son\u2019s first Bundesliga game and wanted to meet Jobe after the match at the bus. Then they stood at the entrance to the locker room and also spoke emotionally with Sebastian, which isn\u2019t a problem at all based on the relationship. Everything was cleared up already today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kehl told the Bild tabloid the day before that \u201cthe active area is and stays restricted for players, coaches and officials, not families or agents. That won\u2019t happen again. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve clearly told all the parties involved.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bellingham, in contrast to his older brother Jude, endured a disappointing German league debut in Hamburg. Dortmund ultimately held on to draw 3-3 with St. Pauli, with Bellingham replaced at halftime by Felix Nmecha.<\/p>\n
In his own Bundesliga debut for the club in September 2020, Jude Bellingham set up one goal as Dortmund defeated Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach 3-0. The older Bellingham moved to Real Madrid in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Borussia Dortmund will keep players\u2019 parents away from locker room areas after an incident with Jobe Bellingham\u2019s father.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,18142,19,17,6435,18143,18144,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-22961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-fai","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-league-of-ireland","13":"tag-local-soccer","14":"tag-premiership","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}