Sebastien Haller’s emotional comeback after overcoming cancer

“Goosebumps, literally… You’ll never walk alone”. This wrote the Borussia Dortmund in their own goals in the middle of a hard-fought match against Augsburg, a hellish 4-3 which fell on the Aurinegro slope. At that moment, 17′ from the ST, the duel faded into the background. Why, for the first time since he arrived at the club and six months after he found out he had cancer, Sebastien Haller entered the court in an official match.

“It will be a moment full of emotions”, coach Edin Terzic had predicted about the return of Haller, who overcame testicular cancer detected as soon as the Ajax-Dortmund transfer took place. Who also had to pass four cycles of chemotherapy and at no point did it loosen. The fight had a prize: wearing boots with the motto “fuck cancer” on the outside of the foot, the 28-year-old Ivorian added 29 minutes and was acclaimed by the whole court.

“The welcome they gave me was something incredible and unforgettable. I was just happy to be there, to take my first steps on the pitch. It was something to live with the team, there was an impressive noise” Haller said after the match. On the 9th, he had already made his return but in friendly duels -in the last one he scored three goals in eight minutes-also referred to his physical conditions: “Let’s say I’m completely healed because I can go back to playing with the team, but there are still small things to do to find my maximum physical level again”.

Borussia Dortmund won a goat match against Augsburg

Borussia won an epic duel that was apparently impossible to win. Because when he scored, they equalized. And when he got back up, there was parity. It is again. It is again. Until, with Giovanni Reyna’s goal just over 10 minutes from the final whistle, he ended up taking it.

Jude Bellingham, already a protagonist in the English team and not to mention Dortmund, opened the net with a great goal that combined dribbling, cunning and finishing. 40′ into the first half Augsburg equalized through Arne Maier. That goal started the pursuit of Tom and Jerry.

Bellingham is a nice definition

at 42′Borussia 2-1 with goals from Nico Schlotterbeck. at 46′, 2-2 from Ermedin Demirovic’s cry. Already in the second half, at 75′, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens made it 3-2 for the aurinegro team. There was no time to celebrate it: 60 seconds later3-3 by David Colina. And two minutes later, to round it out, Reyna nailed the 4-3 finish. Pa-ti-da-zo.