On December 8, 2023, a very special test match will take place. SV Wacker Obercastrop will then receive a Polish club, including a BVB legend.

Soccer fans in Castrop-Rauxel and also supporters of Borussia Dortmund should make a note of this date in their calendars.

On December 8 (7:30 p.m.), the clubs of BVB legends Kevin Großkreutz and Lukasz Piszczek will meet. Westfalenliga club SV Wacker Obercastrop welcomes Polish fourth-division team LKS Goczalkowice. Here, the 38-year-old Piszczek has been player-coach since July 2021 and is now also a soccer coach – Forecasting reported.

Großkreutz and Piszczek once celebrated great successes at Borussia Dortmund. Together they won the DFB Cup and became German champions. They also appeared in the Champions League final with BVB in the 2012/2013 season. Borussia, then under coach Jürgen Klopp, made a great game in London, but in the end FC Bayern Munich won the European soccer royal league in the German-German final.

Piszczek, who moved to Dortmund from Hertha BSC in the summer of 2010, left Borussia eleven years later for his native Poland. Now he returns to Castrop-Rauxel as coach for a test match.

Piszczek played a total of 382 competitive matches for Borussia Dortmund. The 66-time Polish international also appeared 87 times for Hertha BSC and in 80 games for Zaglebie Lubin during his professional career. He ended his professional career in the summer of 2021 and returned to LKS Goczalkowice, the Polish fifth-division club where his father is president. Here he is making his first experiences as a player-coach.

BVB record players – as of October 27, 2023:

1. Michael Zorc – 572 games

2nd Mats Hummels – 479 games

3rd Roman Weidenfeller – 453 games

4. stefan reuter – 421 games

5th Lars Ricken – 408 games

6th Dede – 398 games

7th Marco Reus – 397 games

8th Dieter Kurrat – 382 games

Lukasz Piszczek – 382 games

10. Lothar Huber – 372 games