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Schalke player says sorry for wearing Dortmund shirt: ‘Very immature’ | NOW

Schalke 04 player Rabbi Matondo apologized extensively on Wednesday for a photo in which he is wearing a shirt of arch rival Borussia Dortmund.

“I am very sad and disappointed in myself,” said Matondo, 19, in a statement on Twitter. “I want to clarify the situation and especially sorry sorry to everyone at the club.”

On Tuesday, a photo of the attacker from Wales appeared in social media, who did exercises in a Cardiff gym in the shirt of Dortmund player Jadon Sancho, with whom he is close friends.

That caused furious reactions from Schalke supporters and a rebuke from the management of the Bundesliga club. “He may only be nineteen years old, but this should absolutely not happen to him,” sport director Jochen Schneider told Kicker.

Matondo, who has played for Schalke since last year, says on Wednesday that it was “naive” to wear a Dortmund shirt during “personal training”. “I only wore that shirt because Jadon is a very good friend, it had nothing to do with Dortmund.”

“I did this without thinking about the consequences and how angry a lot of people would be about it. There are no excuses for my immaturity. Now I can only promise to commit 100 percent to Schalke and say that I have always done. “

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