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BVB plan to say farewell to ''legends'' in summer 2022
''We have an idea that the first team can play against the double-winning team from 2012, and we hope this can take place in the summer of 2022,'' said Hans-Joachim Watzke (chief executive officer) in an interview with the Funke media group, adding: ''I hope this can be made a reality. We would like to say goodbye to all these players in front of our fans, and I know from talking to a lot of the guys that they would be really happy about a game like this.''
2022 will mark the tenth anniversary of the double win.
Sven Bender and Lukasz Piszczek won their first Bundesliga winners' medals with BVB in 2011 before claiming a domestic double of league and DFB-Pokal in 2012. They also won the latter competition in 2017. Both players drew the curtain on their Bundesliga careers last weekend; one of them in a Bayer Leverkusen shirt, the other after 11 years in Black & Yellow.