BVB | Defense Chef Mats Hummels over his "hardest phases"

After months of continuing problems with the patellae tendon in the left knee, Mats Hummels has arrived at the annual turn on the year on a physical top level. How important is a full fitness for him, the BVB guide players illustrated in front of the Bundesliga game against the SC Freiburg in an interview.

The most difficult phases in my career were always when I was not 100 percent fit. I realize that that's the most important factor. Only then can you fully focus on what you do in the place Must and does not have to be constantly in his body, the 33-year-old Routinize in the holiday magazine on the YouTube channel of the BVB.

In the course of the closing round was exactly that practically never the case. Hummel's dragged himself with the knee injury with the German national team through the European Championship, missed some games of BVB at the beginning of the season.

Quickly, however, the central defender was set again under the new head coach Marco Rose, but also without completely fit and official to be trained: Finding the balance, to get really fit and play and fulfill his duties was really not easy, Hummel reported from these weeks, which came in the November.

Hummel's still bound to the BVB until 2023

The file breaks were gold worth for me, I could train very well for me. From mid-November, I was relatively painless and fit. With the two weeks vacation last at the turn of the year, the last aspect of freshness was added, even for the head, added the BVB star.

Meanwhile, the Dortmund er defenses is in a physical condition, by being if you have to play at this level.

For the back round start last weekend in Frankfurt (3: 2), the World Champion from 2014 was again set in the defensive of Borussia Dortmund. In the current season Hummel's was already 21 times for the BVB on the lawn, where he still has an ongoing contract until 2023.