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Dortmund suffer Mario Gotze injury setback

By on May 21, 2013
Mario Gotze was forced to pull out of training to Tuesday following a recurrence of his hamstring injury.

Mario Gotze was forced to pull out of training to Tuesday following a recurrence of his hamstring injury.

Borussia Dortmund star Mario Gotze has received a major set-back in his race to be fit for the Champions League final on Sunday with a recurrence of his hamstring injury.  The winger tore his hamstring in Dortmund’s Champions League semi-final second-leg clash against Real Madrid in April, and has been fighting to play in what would be his last match with the German club, against Dortmund’s biggest domestic rivals Bayern Munich.  Bayern activated Gotze’s €37 million release clause to sign the German, and the 20-year-old will move to the newly crowned German champions at the end of the season.

Although resuming light training following intense rehabilitation, Gotze was forced to pull out of training on Tuesday after a slight recurrence of the injury, with the winger felling “something in his hamstring”.

“Mario has felt something again in his hamstring,” Dortmund general manager Michael Zorc told Bild. “That is why he stopped. We don’t know how bad it is and whether he is still suffering from it.”

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