Borussia Dortmund followed up their first pre-season victory, yesterday's 5-0 defeat of VfL Rhede, by beating "Team Gold", a team consisting of German former Olympic representatives, 17-0 (6-0) in a shortened match of 35 minutes per half during the club's Season Opening Event.

Today's match was all about raising money for a good cause rather than focusing on the football, with the ticket sale proceeds of €250,000 from the 41,200 fans in attendance at Signal Iduna Park donated to the charity Deutsche Sporthilfe. BVB Director of Marketing Carsten Cramer handed over "the biggest cheque in the club's history" at half-time.

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As for the match itself, a team including former handball goalkeeper Silvio Heinevetter, beach volleyball Olympic winner Jonas Reckermann and ski-jumping legend Sven Hannawald put in a thoroughly respectable performance. The professionals, however, were unstoppable whenever they upped the tempo. Blaszczykowski opened the scoring after two and a half minutes, and the scoreline might have reached double figures by the half-time interval had shot-stopper Heinevetter not thwarted half a dozen great chances in brilliant fashion. It proved to be a slow-paced, noticeably fair and, ultimately, friendly match in which goals from Aubameyang (3) and Kampl plus another from Kuba made it 6-0 at the break.

More goals came in the second period as 41,200 spectators looked on in enjoyment. For the Bundesliga professionals, it was another welcome practice session in a wonderful atmosphere. The enjoyment they took in taking part in the match could be seen from the manner in which they created the Black and Yellows' goals, which came from Hofmann (3), Immobile (3), Maruoka, Reus, Stenzel and Castro. Even when "Team Gold" had some 29 players on the pitch in the closing stages of the match and BVB were left with ten men after Italian Ciro Immobile took a knock to his foot and went off injured, the visitors were not able to snatch a consolation goal.

BVB 1st half: Weidenfeller – Kirch, Subotic, Stankovic, Durm – Bender – Gündogan, Mkhitaryan – Blaszczykowski, Aubameyang, Kampl
BVB 2nd half: Bürki – Stenzel, Hummels, Sokratis, Schmelzer – Castro, Weigl – Hofmann, Reus, Maruoka – Immobile
Goals: 1-0 Blaszczykowski (3), 2-0 Aubameyang (6), 3-0 Kampl (8), 4-0 Aubameyang (12), 5-0 Aubameyang (16), 6-0 Blaszczykowski (21), 7-0 Maruoka (36), 8-0 Brendel (37, own goal), 9-0 Hofmann (39), 10-0 Reus (40), 11-0 Immobile (43), 12-0 Stenzel (45), 13-0 Hofmann (47), 14-0 Castro (48), 15-0 Hofmann (53), 16-0 Immobile (58), 17-0 Immobile (63)
Attendance: 41,200
Boris Rupert