GERMANY: AROUND 35,000 BORUSSIA DORTMUND FANS IN DORTMUND WATCH THEIR TEAM LOSE THE UEFA CUP FINAL TO FEYENOORD ON A GIANT VIDEO SCREEN

Record ID: 646968

  • Title: GERMANY: AROUND 35,000 BORUSSIA DORTMUND FANS IN DORTMUND WATCH THEIR TEAM LOSE THE UEFA CUP FINAL TO FEYENOORD ON A GIANT VIDEO SCREEN
  • Date: 8th May 2002
  • Summary: DORTMUND, GERMANY (MAY 8, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. EXTERIOR STADIUM 2. WIDE OF STADIUM INTERIOR 3. FANS CHEERING 4. FIREWORKS GOING OFF 5. WIDE OF SCREEN 6. FANS WATCHING GAME ON SCREEN 7. CLOSE-UP OF FANS 8. FANS CHEERING AFTER DORTMUND SCORE 9. WIDE OF STAND 10. FANS WATCHING 11. END OF MATCH 12. VOX POP (German) DORTMUND FAN SAYING "I think they did not deserve the victory. Borussia Dortmund played well. The others played more fouls than anything else and that is how they won." 13. VOX POP (German) DORTMUND FAN SAYING "They could have won. After the penalty spot the action was gone." 14. FANS RUNNING ONTO PITCH Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd May 2002 13:00
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  • Location: DORTMUND, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA856VDKAFKK3ATJ88WUXRUJTIQ
  • Story Text: An estimated 35,000 Borussia Dortmund fans in Germany watched their
    team narrowly lose to Feyenoord in the UEFA Cup Final hundreds
    of miles away in the Netherlands.


    The fans watched the game on a large video screen in
    Dortmund's stadium on Wednesday night (May 8, 2002).

    German police said they did not count on such a high
    turnout of spectators and that a second stand had to opened
    to accommodate demand to see the game being played in
    Rotterdam.

    Striker Pierre van Hooijdonk struck two first-half goals as
    Feyenoord beat 10-man Borussia Dortmund 3-2 to win the UEFA
    Cup for the second time after an entertaining final.

    The Dutch team had to survive a superb second-half
    comeback from Dortmund who were reduced to 10 men in the 31st
    minute when defender Juergen Kohler was sent off in the last
    game of his career.

    But the Dutch team were under pressure for the rest of the
    match after Dortmunds Czech forward Jan Koller hit a brilliant
    right-footed shot into the top left-hand corner from outside
    of the area in the 58th minute.

    The victory marked the first European triumph for a Dutch
    club for seven seasons after Ajax Amsterdam won the European
    Cup in 1995.


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