GERMANY: FOOTBALL/SOCCER - Borussia Dortmund fans have high hopes their team will bring back the trophy as they set off in buses bound for London to watch the Champion League final against Bayern Munich

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  • Title: GERMANY: FOOTBALL/SOCCER - Borussia Dortmund fans have high hopes their team will bring back the trophy as they set off in buses bound for London to watch the Champion League final against Bayern Munich
  • Date: 24th May 2013
  • Summary: DORTMUND, GERMANY (MAY 24, 2013) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF STADIUM DORTMUND FANS WAITING FOR BUSES EVENING SUN AND BUSES STADIUM IN EVENING SUN MORE DORTMUND FANS WAITING FOR BUSES BUSES ARRIVE DORTMUND FANS WALKING TO BUSES FANS SINGING WHILE ENTERING BUSES (SOUNDBITE) (German) DOMINIK SCHWAF (LEFT) AND LINUS EIERSBROCK, DORTMUND FANS, SAYING: "Good. We are very well. We are really up for it. We just want to go. And when we'll go we will rock England." (SOUNDBITE) (German) UDO SCHIKOWSKI, DORTMUND FAN, SAYING: "I only slept for three hours because I came straight from a night shift. But I am so proud that our Ruhrpott (area along river Ruhr, home to Borussia) boys go there. And we will bring that thing home!" (SOUNDBITE) (German) DOMINIK PFEUFER, DORTMUND FAN, SAYING: "I am from Frankonia (southern Germany, northern part of Bavaria) and as a Frankonian we don't like Bavarians at all. So from birth on I was a Borussia (Dortmund) fan. My heart only beats for that team, ever since I was 5 years old. And it will always be like that. And we will bring the pot home to the 'Pott' (Ruhrpott)." FRONT OF BUS AND PAN TO FANS FANS CHANTING "WE WILL GET THE TWO HANDLES POT" (REFERRING TO THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TROPHY) FANS SITTING IN BUS, SINGING VARIOUS OF BUSES LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 8th June 2013 13:00
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  • Story Text: Borussia Dortmund fans gathered on Friday (May 24) at the city's stadium to board buses bound for London and all-German Champions League final against Bayern Munich at Wembley stadium on Saturday (May 25).
    Thirteen buses packed with enthusiastic fans were set to travel the 8 to 10 hour journey to the British capital while a second motorcade of buses was due to follow two hours later.

    "We are really up for it," one Dortmund fan, Linus Eierbrock, said. "We just want to go. And when we'll go we will rock England."
    And for some fans personal sacrifices were nothing compared to the prize on the horizon, as Udo Schikowski told Reuters: "I only slept for three hours because I came straight from a night shift. But I am so proud that our Ruhrpott (area along river Ruhr, home to Borussia) boys go there. And we will bring that thing home!"
    According to one fan, the supporters will gather in London's iconic Trafalgar Square, early on Saturday (May 25) to see double decker bus painted in Dortmund's black and yellow colours.
    Dortmund are in London without injured midfielder Mario Goetze, who is out of the game with a muscle injury.
    Bayern are chasing an unprecedented trio of titles for a German club after winning the Bundesliga in record fashion. They also take on VfB Stuttgart in the German Cup final on June 1.
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