Can BVB outplay UEFA

After the shock of Tuesday's attack in BVB's bus an interesting conversation followed between the German's side staff and the European Football Federation aka UEFA. BVB kicked it off during the postgame comments with Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel complaining that his side felt “completely ignored” over the rescheduling.

“We were informed by text message that Uefa was making this decision,”
“A decision made in Switzerland that concerns us directly. We will not forget it. It is a very bad feeling.”

Following in the same path but more brutally central defender Papastathopoulos mentioned that he felt treated like an animal being asked to think of football and play for the crowds 24 hours after an attack on his life.

UEFA side went on to reply to BVB and to the criticism claiming that they never received information suggesting that any of the teams did not want to play. What is interesting however to mention is that the decision was made 1hour after the attack which makes me wonder how much feedback was possible to be gathered from the German side staff just minutes after the attack took place.

In any case Nuri Sahin also came in later to add to the previous comments that the German team was not willing to have this game just a day after the attack.

"It's hard to talk about it, hard to find the right words [about the attack]. No, of course we did not want to play, but we knew we had responsibilities, we represent one of the biggest clubs in the world, it's a big competition, the Champions League.”

Definitely Champions league is a one of the top 2-3 European competitions but back to Papastathopoulos’ comment players remain human beings. So is difficult to factor in the magnitude of the competition in a decision for which the main factor ought to be the staff mental situation.

In any case BVB appears to follow their field strategy out of the field going all out against UEFA as the would do in the pitch when cornered.

Is this the proper was to deal with this?

Would they change something by criticizing UEFA?

I don’t know but I definitely like the fact that the team I support has a culture that goes down to their bones. Dortmund will be direct team and very simple in the way they deal with their "matches" in and out of the football pitch. It is not always successful and sometimes it will hurt them but is not an organization that will hide or play a political game to gain friends. I love the way they acted without overlooking the fault of UEFA because it was made by UEFA. They just said what they felt. I believe that if other teams were buying in this attitude we would have a much better European and Global football where decisions are made with main factor the best of the sport and not the best of the product.