The senior team players who have remained in Dortmund and are not on duty with their national team put in an extra 'special-shift' after their midweek training session, remaining long after to sign autographs and pose for selfies.

It was a small group of players, but a large group of fans that had come to the open doors training session on Adi-Preißler-Allee. Mario Götze even gave two boys some private tuition while Maximilian Philipp held a separate hour long autograph signing session in the BVB FanWelt.