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Serhou Guirassy was the UEFA Champions League's top scorer this season, but he is far from the only Borussia Dortmund player to keep an eye on when the FIFA Club World Cup kicks off in the United States in June.
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Guirassy hit 13 goals on Dortmund's run to this season's Champions League quarter-finals - a competition BVB won in 1997 and were runners-up in in 2013 and 2024 - and another international trophy could be theirs if the Guinea international keeps up such form this summer.
BVB have been drawn in Group F of the new-look tournament, alongside Fluminense (Brazil), Ulsan (South Korea) and Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa), kicking things off against the former in New Jersey on 17 June.
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As well as those 13 continental goals, Guirassy hit another 21 in the Bundesliga this season, making him the joint-second-top goalscorer domestically behind a certain Harry Kane (26 goals). With his six assists thrown in, Guirassy boasted a direct goal-involvement every 92 minutes that he played across the two competitions.
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He may have taken the tourist route to the top - via Laval, Lille, Auxerre, Cologne, Amiens, Rennes and Stuttgart - but the France-born star is aging like a fine wine. With his pace, power, hold-up play and eye for goal, he will be a handful for anyone he comes up against in the USA.
Perhaps Dortmund's next-most important player in the Rückrunde, Daniel Svensson's performances since joining on loan from Nordsjælland in February have been such that BVB decided to make his temporary stay permanent more than a month before his initial deal was due to expire.
A versatile, left-sided player, Svensson helped Dortmund back into the Champions League places this season with a goal and two assists from left wing-back in what has become head coach Niko Kovač's preferred 3-4-2-1 formation. At 23, the best is still to come for the youngster who made his Sweden debut last October.
Pascal Groß is Dortmund's midfield metronome. The former long-time Brighton midfielder - who played everywhere from right-back to left wing with the Seagulls - has settled into the heart of BVB's engine room since his summer 2024 arrival, and is now also a fixture of Julian Nagelsmann's Germany line-ups.
He may turn 34 as the Club World Cup gets underway, but a team-high 10 assists in the Bundesliga this season (together with Julian Brandt), and 14 across all competitions, suggests Groß still has plenty of midfield string-pulling left to do yet.
One of the fastest players in the game (he clocked a then Bundesliga record 22.77mph against Freiburg in February 2023), Adeyemi's pace keeps full-backs on the back foot, and he has been racing back to prominence in recent months.
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Adeyemi started the season as second choice to Jamie Gittens in his position playing off Guirassy, but he has played himself back into the first XI since Kovač replaced Nuri Şahin in February, with five of his seven Bundesliga goals coming since the turn of the year. Adeyemi's Germany recall in March for the UEFA Nations League quarter-final against Italy was nothing if not deserved.
Jobe Bellingham
While Jobe is the brother of former Dortmund midfielder and UEFA Champions League winner Jude, it is for his talent that he has been snapped up by the Ruhr-based outfit. Aged just 19, he played a crucial role as Sunderland returned to the English Premier League after an eight-year hiatus in 2024/25.
His signature was completed just in time for him to appear at this tournament, allowing supporters to get an immediate insight into how he will fit into Kovač's plans moving forward. A hard-working midfielder with an eye for goal and composure in possession, his game is reminiscent of his older brother's during his stint at Signal Iduna Park. If he can come anywhere near to matching Jude's impact at the club, he will shine in the USA this summer.