{"id":334235,"date":"2025-08-10T22:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334235\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:35:14","slug":"borussia-dortmund-bid-farewell-to-mats-hummels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334235\/","title":{"rendered":"Borussia Dortmund bid farewell to Mats Hummels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t1<\/p>\n<p>After 508 appearances across all competitions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/tag\/borussia-dortmund\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borussia Dortmund<\/a>, Mats Hummels\u2019 career comes to an end. The 36-year-old announced his retirement in the summer but would play one last game for die Schwarzgelben, a 2-1 defeat against Juventus in their final pre-season friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Hummels is one of Borussia Dortmund\u2019s most decorated players, winning two Bundesliga titles and two German Cups, as well as winning the World Cup with Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Hummels\u2019 farewell game for Borussia Dortmund, the club were selling a special jersey in the player\u2019s honour which was available freely in the club shop.<\/p>\n<p>Hummels \u2013 who received a raucous applause as he came out of the tunnel \u2013 captained the side for 18 minutes. His time at the club will certainly be looked fondly upon and he\u2019ll certainly go down as one of the club\u2019s greats during his two spells at the Westfalenstadion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc4b Mats Hummels is subbed off in the 18th minute to bring to an end his professional career. <\/p>\n<p>\u26ab\ufe0f\ud83d\udfe1 Hummels made 508 appearances for Dortmund. <br \/>\ud83c\udfc6 With Dortmund, he won the Bundesliga 2x, the DFB Pokal 2x and most notably the World Cup with Germany, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nq7abXDoS2\">pic.twitter.com\/Nq7abXDoS2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Get German Football News (@GGFN_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GGFN_\/status\/1954573680194793504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrea Cambiaso scored a brace for Juventus before Maximilian Beier scored a consolation goal in the 89th minute for BVB.<\/p>\n<p>GGFN | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x.com\/danieljpinder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Pinder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 After 508 appearances across all competitions for Borussia Dortmund, Mats Hummels\u2019 career comes to an end. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-334235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115006860393957479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}