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Bus drama around Julian Weigl: Ex-BVB star experiences another attack

2020-06-06T07:57:07.928Z


Ex-BVB star Julian Weigl was injured in an attack on the team bus. The Benfica Lisbon player had to be hospitalized. 


Ex-BVB star Julian Weigl was injured in an attack on the team bus. The Benfica Lisbon player had to be hospitalized. 

  • Ex-BVB star Julian Weigl was injured in an attack on the team bus.
  • The bus had been attacked by a stranger after a Benfica game, and was played for the first time in Portugal on Thursday after the Corona break *.
  • Weigl experienced a bus attack as early as Dortmund .

Lisbon - shock experience for ex-BVB star Julian Weigl (24). And now for the second time. The team bus of the Portuguese top team Benfica Lisbon was thrown by stones on Thursday during the journey by unknown perpetrators. Also on board: Julian Weigl .

Nota à Comunicação Social ➡️ https://t.co/K64ATKL4ob pic.twitter.com/Q385SvudrF

- SL Benfica (@SLBenfica) June 4, 2020

The midfielder was then hospitalized with his teammate Andrija Zivkovic in the hospital da Luz. As the club said, both had been hit by splinters. 

Julian Weigl: Ex-BVB star admitted to hospital after attack

The former Bundesliga * player has been playing at Benfica since summer . In April 2017, he was involved in a bus attack up close *. At that time, the Dortmund team bus was targeted by an individual on the way to a Champions League match .

Borussia Dortmund reacted to the current attack and sent Weigl's recovery wishes to Twitter

Get well soon, Jule!

Our former player @JuWeigl had to be hospitalized slightly injured yesterday evening after an attack on the @SLBenfica team bus. pic.twitter.com/uTpne6TAag

- Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) June 5, 2020

Julian Weigl in hospital - former Dortmund man again involved in bus attack 

On Thursday the Benfica team was on their way home. Previously, the Portuguese leaders had only played 0-0 against the middle-class team Tondela . It was the first game after the Corona break. Weigl was just under an hour on the field at the restart of the Portuguese league before he was replaced. 

In the meantime, the police have started an investigation. The association has already announced "full cooperation with the authorities". 

For his former club Borussia Dortmund , Hertha BSC will continue on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Recently, it was not only in fan circles that much was speculated about the possible end of trainer Lucien Favre *. Sky expert Lothar Matthäus also brought a possible successor into play: ex-Bayern coach * Niko Kovac. 

* tz.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network

List of rubric lists: © dpa / Marius Becker

Source: merkur

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