Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic stated on Tuesday the weird nature of striker Sebastien Haller’s sickness made it tough for the membership to plot out his return.
Haller, who returned in January after six months’ therapy for testicular most cancers, scored his first purpose for Dortmund in his aspect’s 5-1 residence win over Freiburg on Saturday.
Speaking forward of Wednesday’s German Cup conflict at native rival Bochum, Terzic stated the membership’s docs and coaches had been always in “open and honest communication” about how greatest to reintegrate the striker.
“It’s a situation that none of us can really assess. Neither Sebastien, myself nor our medical department had any experience of something like this,” Terzic stated on the membership’s coaching base in Dortmund.
“When someone comes back from an ACL tear or a shoulder injury, we can make an estimation because we have experience there. But with this we are all inexperienced, so the solution is open and honest communication.”
Terzic disagreed when requested if Haller might play the total 90 minutes in opposition to Bochum regardless of an obvious lack of preparation.
“I see it differently, he’s had the longest preparation anyone could imagine.
“How hard he worked between his therapies… It’s hard to comprehend how intensely (he worked).”
On Saturday, the France-born Ivory Coast striker headed in a cross from Raphael Guerreiro halfway by way of the second half for his aspect’s third purpose.
After the match, Haller stated he was “waiting for this since day one”.
“I’m floating on a cloud.”
Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke on Monday praised the striker and his work ethic, saying his return was “a miracle”.
“The merciless consistency with which he has confronted the illness from day one is unbelievable,” Watzke advised Germany’s Ruhr Nachrichten newspaper.
