When Borussia Dortmund star Felix Nmecha transferred an imaginary crown from his head onto the pitch last weekend, he probably wasn’t expecting to spark a firestorm.
Arriving at the German national team camp two days later, he was summoned for a grilling by sporting director Rudi Voller and manager Jurgen Klopp. His symbol of surrender before God, a goal celebration called ‘The King’s Return’, had blown up into an international news story.
Voller, alongside many of Dortmund’s fans, was concerned by Nmecha’s ties to Ballers in God, a network of Christian players founded in 2015 by former Tottenham midfielder John Bostock.
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