It was a long way, but now Marius Wolf (26) has found his place at Borussia Dortmund. Behind him lie rental stations, setbacks – and a drastic call that Wolf answered late in the evening in a Bochum hotel almost five years ago.
Has played twelve Bundesliga and five Champions League games for BVB in the preliminary round: Marius Wolf.
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Basically everything was already settled. The move to VfL Bochum was imminent, Marius Wolf had long since checked into a hotel, but then the phone rang at around 10.30 p.m. At the other end of the line: Bruno Hübner, sports director at Eintracht Frankfurt.
It was almost five years ago now, Wolf had last played in Hanover, but was only used in the second team at 96. His plan: A fresh start in Bochum, to gain a foothold again, to get more frequent to draw attention to yourself. But: “Everything changed when Bruno Huebner called,” Wolf said in an interview on the BVB club website.
The winger went to Frankfurt, won the cup with Eintracht 2018 and then moved on to Dortmund. To the club where he has only now, on the third attempt, arrived. “In my younger years I am something of a moving expert,” says Wolf, and then lists his stations: “Nuremberg, Munich, Hanover, Dortmund – and in between Berlin and Cologne.”
It’s a long way behind the 26-year-old, but now that Marco Rose is betting on him at BVB, Wolf says: “I’m finally where I belong.”
It is very important to think positively.
This season, Wolf has played in 19 of Dortmund’s 26 competitive games. His big plus: the 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 seen a lot in his career
Marius Wolf (in white) claps with Bruno Huebner. 
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“It’s incredibly important to think positively,” says Wolf. In the course of his career he has seen a lot, a suspension at TSV 1860 Munich, an injury misery in Hanover, a missed DFB Cup final with Frankfurt. Events that kept throwing him back, but now Wolf feels that he has arrived. In Dortmund. At BVB. Under Marco Rose.
All of this has to do with the call from Bruno Huebner that Wolf took in Bochum. After that, his career took off – and now he has his place at Black-Yellow.
