The New Year's reception is a great tradition at Borussia Dortmund. There were time-table issues why the reception only took place at the start of February this year, but this certainly did not take anything away from all the fun the 500 invited guests had. Quite to the contrary. Norbert Dickel hosted an entertaining programme.  

The Head Coach and the team were also present with the club management and were there from  1900 to 2100hrs.

Stadium announcer Norbert Dickel did a very good job to introduce an exciting evening by conducting lively interviews with Head Coach Thomas Tuchel and team captain Mats Hummels and he greeted Hans-Joachim Watzke, the chairman wholeheartedly.

The guests were entertained with live music and enjoyed a lovely buffet, the pros were happy to pose for photos and to sign autographs and there was a stage show and fireworks to round off the whole evening's entertainment. (br)