Haller back on the field for Dortmund after cancer surgery

MARBELLA, Spain (AP) — Less than six months after he was identified with testicular most cancers, Sébastien Haller was again on the sector for Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday in a pleasant sport.

The Ivory Coast striker got here on as a 74th-minute substitute for Dortmund in a 5-1 win over Fortuna Düsseldorf throughout a winter coaching camp in Spain earlier than the German season resumes subsequent week. 

Haller required chemotherapy and two operations, the second of them in late November, after he was instructed in July that he had testicular most cancers. The prognosis got here two weeks after Haller joined Dortmund and earlier than he performed a sport. 

Dortmund signed Haller from Ajax within the hope he might substitute prolific scorer Erling Haaland after the Norwegian was bought to Manchester City.

The French-born Haller led the Dutch league final season with 21 targets and scored 11 extra throughout Ajax’s run to the spherical of 16 within the Champions League. Without him, Dortmund has struggled within the Bundesliga and is in sixth place, 9 factors off chief Bayern Munich.