It has been a long road, but in the meantime Marius Wolf (26) has found his place at Borussia Dortmund. Behind him are loan spells, setbacks – and a drastic phone call that Wolf took late at night in a Bochum hotel almost five years ago.
Basically everything was already settled. The transfer to VfL Bochum was imminent, Marius Wolf had long since checked into a hotel, but then the phone rang at around 10.30pm. At the other end of the line: Bruno Hübner, sports director at Eintracht Frankfurt.
It was almost five years ago, Wolf had last played in Hanover, but had only played in the second team at 96. His plan: to make a fresh start in Bochum, to regain his footing, to make more appearances, to draw attention to himself. But: “Everything changed when Bruno Hübner called,” Wolf says in an interview on BVB’s club website.
The winger went to Frankfurt, won the 2018 cup with Eintracht and then moved on to Dortmund. To the club he has only now arrived at, in his third attempt. “In my younger years, I’m already something of an expert on moves,” says Wolf and then lists his stations: “Nuremberg, Munich, Hanover, Dortmund – and in between Berlin and Cologne. “
It’s been a long road behind the 26-year-old, but now that Marco Rose is backing him at BVB, Wolf says: “I’m finally where I belong.”
It’s insanely important to think positively.
This season, Wolf has played in 19 of Dortmund’s 26 competitive matches. His big plus: flexibility – and his tenacity, which brought him to BVB in the first place and has now made him an important player in the Borussia squad.
Wolf has already experienced a lot in his career
“It’s insanely important to think positively,” says Wolf. He has experienced a lot in the course of his career, a suspension at TSV 1860 Munich, an injury misery in Hannover, a missed DFB Cup final with Frankfurt. Events that set him back again and again, but now Wolf feels he has arrived. In Dortmund. At BVB. Under Marco Rose.
All of this also has to do with the call from Bruno Hübner that Wolf received in Bochum. After that, his career took off – and now he has his place at Schwarz-Gelb.
