Dortmund Antitesis Madrid, Nilai Kaka Lampaui Seluruh Pemain dan Ofisial
Dortmund Antithesis of Madrid, Kaka Cost more than the Entire Team Put Together
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Parulian Manalu
UANG Anda bisa membeli pemain bintang, tetapi Anda tidak dapat membeli ´Cinta Sejati´.
Dalam banyak hal, Borussia Dortmund adalah antitesis lengkap Madrid. Sebuah klub terkenal dengan Proyek Galacticos, klub raksasa Spanyol ini punya kebiasaan membeli pemain terbaik di planet ini. Dari Alfredo Di Stefano hingga Cristiano Ronaldo, dibalut pemain terbesar di olahraga paling populer di planet ini untuk mendukung kehebatan mereka di Santiago Bernabeu.
Saat ini Dortmund, bagaimana pun, bertumpu pada pemain muda. Nuri Sahin, di balik kesuksesan juara Bundesliga 2011 warga yang datang melalui akademi klub dan, sempat dipinjamkan secara di Eredivisie (Belanda), menghabiskan seluruh karirnya di Westfalenstadion sebelum memenangkan langkah (ironisnya) ke Madrid.
Musim berikutnya, tanpa pemain internasional Turki internasional, memiliki Shinji Kagawa dan Robert Lewandowski, dibeli dengan nilai gabungan 5,1 juta euro melangkah sukses untuk memberikan gelar kedua berturut-turut dan mencatat poin terbaik.
Tentu saja, sementara BVB sedang menikmati kemenangan dalam negeri, begitu pula Madrid. Dipimpin oleh pemain bernilai 94 juta euro, Cristiano Ronaldo, yang hebat didukung oleh nilai transfer tinggi bersama bintang lain seperti Karim Benzema, Fabio Coentrao, Sergio Ramos, Xabi Alonso dan Angel Di Maria, Los Blancos menghancurkan sejumlah rekor transfer domestik tapi harus takluk pada dominasi Barcelona di Spanyol.
Anda akan berpikir bahwa pertemuan antara dua klub yang telah menikmati musim yang begitu besar akan menjadi beban, tapi ternyata salah. Dortmund ditekan, diintimidasi lawan mereka agar takluk, dukungan Lewandowski, Ilkay Gundogan dan Marco Reus ternyata malah menampilkan semangat bertanding yang luar biasa.
Itu adalah penghinaan benar untuk Madrid, tim berjuang untuk memenangkan gelar Liga Champions ke-10. Luka Modric, dengan nilai transfer tinggi sebesar 30 juta euroternyata tidak ada apa-apanya menghadapi Gundogan, yang biaya transfernya hanya seperenam dari nilai transfer Modric.
Dan, yang lebih konyol lagi, dari kemampuan bintang asal Kroasia adalah pada nilai transfer pemain lebih tinggi.Kaka, yang hanya 10 kali masuk daftar starter Madrid di musim ini, ternyata nilai transfernya masih lebih besar dari 11 pemain Dortmund bilai disatukan nilai transfernya. Mats Hummels, Reus dan Gotze bila disatukan nilai transfernya ternyata belum sebanding dengan Cristiano Ronaldo.
Seperti mimpi Decima, penampilan para bintang tampak compang-camping, Madrid mungkin melihat Dortmund dengan iri. Mereka mungkin bernilai hampir dua kali rekan-rekan satu klub Jerman (475 juta euro hingga 254 juta euro) tetapi mereka tidak bisa meniru apa yang dimiliki si kancil: semangat, gairah dan kebersamaan.
Kisah Dortmund memberi harapan bagi setiap klub. Langkah mereka ke final Liga Champions, berarti telah menyingkirkan Manchester City dan Malaga, dua tim yang didukung oleh uang dari Emirat dan Shakhtar Donetsk dari Gazprom.
Jika mereka berhasil Bayern di final kompetisi elit Eropa, itu tak ubahnya hampir akan puitis. The Bavarians telah memenangkan pertempuran untuk Jerman musim ini dan tampak telah memenangkan perang dengan penandatanganan Gotze, tetapi memenangkan Liga Champions akan menjadi kemenangan bagi orang biasa.
Gelar juara dimonopoli oleh klub elit bermodal besar dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, melalui Chelsea, Barcelona, Manchester United dan AC Milan di antara pemenang terakhir, tetapi BVB akan menghirup udara segar, terutama dengan datangnya era Uang Bukanlah Segalanya.
MONEY can buy you star players, but it can´t buy you echte Liebe.
Kaka, a player limited to just 10 starts this season, cost more than the entire Dortmund team put together.
In many ways, BVB are the complete antithesis of Madrid. A club famed for their Galacticos projects, the Spanish giants have made a habit of buying the best players on the planet. From Alfredo Di Stefano to Cristiano Ronaldo, a swathe of the game´s greatest-ever players have plied their trade at the Santiago Bernabeu at some point or another.
The current Borussia Dortmund side, however, are based around youth. Nuri Sahin, the mastermind behind their 2011 Bundesliga triumph was a local boy who came through the club´s academy and, barring a brief loan spell in the Eredivisie, spent his whole career at the Westfalenstadion before winning a move (ironically) to Madrid.
The next season, without the Turkey international, they had Shinji Kagawa and Robert Lewandowski, bought for a combined €5.1 million, step up to the plate to deliver a second successive title and record a best-ever points tally.
Of course, while BVB were enjoying domestic glory, so were Madrid. Led by the €94m Cristiano Ronaldo, who was ably backed up by other big-money acquisitions such as Karim Benzema, Fabio Coentrao, Sergio Ramos, Xabi Alonso and Angel Di Maria, los Blancos smashed a host of domestic records themselves as they ended Barca´s dominance in Spain.
And you would think that a meeting between two clubs who had enjoyed such great seasons would be an even affair, but it wasn´t. Dortmund pressed and harried their opponents into submission, with Lewandowski, Ilkay Gundogan and Marco Reus delivering superb performances.
It was a true humiliation for Madrid, a team assembled to win a 10th Champions League title. Luka Modric, their major signing of the summer for a hefty €30m was anonymous throughout, nullified and outshone by Gundogan, who cost BVB one sixth of that price.
And, the ridiculous thing is, the Croat was a meagre signing by their standards. Kaka, a player limited to just 10 starts this season, cost more than the entire Dortmund team put together. Mats Hummels, Reus and Gotze combined earn as much as Cristiano Ronaldo does.
As their Decima dream lays in tatters, Madrid may well look at Dortmund in envy. They may be valued at almost twice their German counterparts (€475m to €254m) but they cannot replicate what the minnows have: spirit, passion and togetherness.
Dortmund´s story is one to provide any club with hope. En route to their likely Champions League final, they have disposed of Manchester City and Malaga, two teams backed by Emirati money, and Gazprom-funded Shakhtar Donetsk.
If they were to go on to beat Bayern in the final of Europe´s elite competition, it would almost be poetic. The Bavarians have won the battle for Germany this season and looked to have won the war with the signing of Gotze, but winning the Champions League would be a victory for the everyman.
The title has been monopolised by the economic elite in recent years, with Chelsea, Barcelona, Manchester United and AC Milan among the recent winners, but BVB would be a breath of fresh air, particularly with the Financial Fair Play era coming.
