Sponsor Bikin Kejutan bagi Dortmund di Bandara
Sponsor`s Flash Mob Ambus Dortmund at Airport
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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INILAH pagi yang mengecewakan, kalah di menit akhir oleh rival senegara dalam laga terbesar dekade ini, penghujung musim yang kelam.
Kecewa sudah pasti, pecundang pasti ingin bersembunyi dari tatapan dunia, pasang headphones, tutup mata lalu coba lupakan ketika di perjalanan pulang.
Namun jika pemain Borussia Dortmund merasa berduka setelah kekalahan akhir mereka dari Bayern Munich di final Liga Champions pada Sabtu, mereka hanya tidak beruntung.
Dalam suasana kebingungan dan memalukan hindari publikasi, sponsor mereka Puma telah mengatur sedikit 'kejutan' bagi mereka di bandara.
Pemain dan staf pelatih, termasuk pelatih Jurgen Klopp, diajak bergoyang ruang check-in bandara saat akan kembali ke Jerman, mereka disergap oleh flash mob lengkap dengan penari, terompet dan confetti.
Dengan ekspresi dingin yang berpadu ketakutan dan keheranan, skuad Dortmund menyaksikan jerita khas klasik 'Movin On Up.'
Setelah tiga menit dalam suasana canggung, pertunjukan itu dibuka dengan banner bertuliskan 'Kami bangga padamu' dari atap terminal Stansted.
Beberapa pemain Dortmund memberi tepuk tangan berhasil bertepuk tangan tapi sebagian lainnya terdiam.
Siapa yang tahu apa yang akan mereka lakukan kalau Dortmund menang ...
IT'S THE morning after a heart-breaking, last minute defeat to your despised rivals in the biggest match of the decade, let alone the season.
Bitterly disappointed, you just want to hide away from the world, plug in your headphones, close your eyes to try and forget about it on the flight back home.
But if Borussia Dortmund's players felt this way after their late defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League final on Saturday, their luck wasn't in.
In a baffling and embarrassingly mis-timed publicity stunt, their sponsors Puma had arranged a little 'surprise' for them at the airport.
As the players and coaching staff, including manager Jurgen Klopp, shuffled their feet at check-in waiting to get back to Germany, they were ambushed by a flash mob complete with break-dancers, trumpets and confetti.
With expressions frozen somewhere between horror and bafflement, the Dortmund squad watch on as the mob perform Primal Scream's classic 'Movin On Up.'
After three minutes of cringey awkwardness, the show is capped off with a banner which reads 'We are proud of you' as yellow confetti tumbles from the Stansted terminal roof.
A few of the players manage to applaud but most glare in stony silence.
Who knows what they would have done had Dortmund won...
