FIFPro wants clear guidelines after attack on Dortmund soccer team

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Spanish worldwide defender Marc Bartra underwent emergency surgery for a broken wrist and to remove glass that became planted in his arm after the blasts shattered windows on the team bus.

On Wednesday, Tuchel was stinging in his criticism of UEFA for going ahead with the UCL game so soon after the attack.

Klopp was manager of the German club from 2008 to 2015 and signed numerous players involved.

Experts said the letter's mix of correct, complicated German and obvious mistakes raised the possibility it could be a red herring meant to place blame on Islamic extremists. Not so, on UEFA's watch, worryingly.

Klopp, Dortmund's former coach of seven years, admitted he was scared for the safety of friends and former players on hearing news of the attack while driving home from Liverpool's training ground.

There has been a warrant for the arrest of the suspected attacker, who has links to terrorist organisations.

Defender Marc Bartra was still in hospital with a fractured wrist while his team-mates were losing 3-2 on Wednesday. Dealing with this is a process that will go on for days and weeks. That they did as Dortmund and Monaco players put on a thrilling show for their fans, who were a model of fair play.

The 43-year-old German claimed his side should have been afforded more than just 24 hours to recover from the traumatic event. Having been subject of a life threatening terror attack on Tuesday, how should they be expected to fulfill a Champions League quarter-final fixture, not to mind perform, on Wednesday?

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Tuchel was enraged that UEFA did not take the incident and the telling effect it had on his players more seriously, which is completely understandable in the circumstances. We will see. "It's my decision".

"What will stay in history is not the result but what happened last night".

"Minutes after the attacks, the only question was whether the game could go through or not". As if we had thrown a beer on our coach.

"We will play for everyone", he said. Time will help. We do not want to bring every match from here on into the context of what happened on Tuesday. "It does not feel good".

Captain Marcel Schmelzer said the "players had to function like puppets" and midfielder Nuri Sahin said it was wrong to use football as a sign against terrorism. And they will have to do so again tomorrow, when Eintracht Frankfurt visits in the German Bundesliga. Sahin insisted that football was not a priority in such a moment.

"When they played the game they tried to give the best".

"He can hopefully play two games a week in the next period, in the future".

Three identical letters printed in German found near the scene of the attack in the western city of Dortmund suggested a possible Islamist motive for the attack. FIFPro, the worldwide players union, says Dortmund should not have played so soon and wants clear guidelines set on dealing with a crisis like that which happened.

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