The international interest from football fans in Borusssia Dortmund is growing and it is growing because of the attractive and entertaining technical manner in which the team plays and also due to their successful matches in the Bundesliga and the Europa League. This means the typical BVB style of play is highly rated and acclaimed world wide. Not just in Europe, but also  in the Far East.

A big step forward in the continueing international development was the opening of our football school in Tokyo in 2012, which enabled us to provide professional football training for Japanese girls and boys between the ages of 7 and 13 years. 160 children came to our the first training sesssions in Tokyo and in Yokohama in the year 2012.

One of the main reasons we opened our Soccer School in Japan was because of our FIFA Club World Cup win in Tokyo in 1997. Since this victory BVB has been very popular in Japan. We could further heighten the international attention through our Japanese international and his fantastic performances in the BVB jersey. We discovered that a lot of Japanese people are very closely connected to BVB. We want to bring our Japanese fans quite a bit closer to BVB through our Soccer School and also enable them to have the possibility to experience their BVB live.

The development in the past years has been very successful. By now our professional BVB coaches are coaching in the region of 160 children. The goals are to improve the technical abilities of every individual child. This means we coach how to pass the ball with quality, ball contol, dribbling and shooting. Being so closely aligned to BVB we impress the typical BVB training philosophy upon all the children in every training session. Above all we promote team spirit as a fundamental part of their education, and also the connection of different types of sports in training with different movements and teaching them to coordinate their movement processes like tempo and being flexible and teaching them psychosocial skills such as integration, tolerance, fair play and being honest.

Our Soccer School is not just a lot of fun for the children who actively participate in our training sessions. The parents also have a lot of fun while their children are learning and integrating themselves with the BVB style.

All in all we can determine that our Soccer School is a great success for BVB and the families in Japan. We are looking forward to further expand and continue this success in the years to come!