Thomas Müller could do with brushing up on his English after his faux pas in Moscow
Thomas Müller could do with brushing up on his English after his faux pas in Moscow

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Munich - Off the Ball, bundesliga.com’s daily feature, brings you another dose of the weird and wonderful tales to have emerged from Germany's top flight.

In the latest edition, we give Thomas Müller an English lesson, Borussia Dortmund welcome a very special visitor to the club museum and BVB's coaching staff are rewarded for their DFB Cup exploits.

A mere 50 years after Borussia Dortmund knocked the mighty SL Benfica - featuring one Eusebio in their starting XI - out of the European Cup at their old

Rote Erde

stadium, the Portugal legend returned to BVB on Wednesday as part of a celebratory evening at the club's museum. Now 71, Eusebio holds no grudges against

die Schwarz-Gelben

for the defeat at the last-16 stage of the 1973/74 competition. "Borussia Dortmund deserved to win. They attacked, attacked and attacked some more." If only Thomas Müller had attended the Eusebio school of post-match anaylsis. The club tweeted the following picture of the evening, where the caption reads: "Eusebio surrounded by BVB legends - 50 years to the day since that 'game of the century' in Lisbon!'