What the sparrows have starked by the rooftops of Dortmunds for several days, the Borussia has now officially confirmed: Roman Bürki leaves the BVB after the season and switches to the US MLS.

The Keeper, who moved from the SC Freiburg to BVB in 2015 and operating five playing times as a number one, is now only third choice at the black yellow. Rumors around a separation for months, so far all speculation went in the sand.

Not so recent reports, Bürki will be incurred in the MLS for the St. Louis City SC in the future. The Swiss adjoin the US club officially announced the BVB on Wednesday. Bürkis Originally until the end of June 2023 Dated contract will be resolved prematurely in this course after the end of the current season.

“It was an honor to have played a total of seven years in this great club. I will not only be in memory in 2017 and 2021, but all the good and difficult times we have experienced together,” Bürki will Quote in a message of Dortmund.

Last years at the BVB “Bürkis Originallyy anything but easy”

And on, “My thanks go first and foremost to my great players, but also the responsible persons of the BVB, my coaches, the entire team behind the team and not least the incredible fans. Once Borusse, always Boruspense! I have a privately owned in recent years Spend time in the US, I am a big fan of US Bürkis Originally and enjoyed totally, in St. Louis, with a club in construction, to develop something. “

Thanks, Roman! | Roman Bürki leaves Borussia Dortmund

Also Dortmund’s Bürkis Originallys director Michael Zorc commented the change: “Roman was our number 1 for many years, he is a deserved BVB professional, with us has won the title and has driven the Borsigplatz with the DFB Cup. These titles, these moments always associated with him. The past one and a half years were anything but easy for novel, but he has always been professionally behaved and put into the team’s service. For his professional and private future in the US, we wish novel only the very best.”

Bürki played 232 mandatory matches for the BVB that more will be added, may be doubted. The step after St. Louis is a great adventure. The franchise starts only from 2023 as a 28th team to the MLS.