Jowe Bellingham may want to stay away from tackling when the clock taps the 28th minute of his next game.
The midfielder was on schedule to face his brother Jude van Real Madrid in the quarterfinals of the club World Cup, but after picking up a yellow card in the 2-1 victory of Borussia Dortmund on Monterrey on Tuesday, he will look from the sidelines instead.
That booking, for an error on Nelson Deossa, was his second of the tournament and arrived in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta in the 28th minute.
The first yellow card of the 19-year-old came in Dortmund’s 1-0 group stage victory on the South Korean side Ulsan HD-also in the 28th minute.
«I think we all saw that he was very disappointed,» said Dortmund manager Niko Kovac. «I think he didn’t know exactly that the second yellow card is a suspension at the break. He was a bit surprised.»
Although a door is closed, Kovac said that there will be more options for the brothers and sisters to meet each other.
“Okay, he is young. His brother is also young, so I am convinced that they will face each other, perhaps next season in the Champions League, and then the future. The future is for them.
«And yes, the Club World Cup would be fun, but now it’s not. Someone else has to play for him, but it’s okay too.»
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Jowe, who sealed a relocation of 33 million euros ($ 38.92 million) to Dortmund from the newly promoted Premier League club Sunderland in June, was replaced in the 55th minute to prevent every chance of a red card, Kovac said.
«I did not replace it because of his performance. I changed because he had a yellow card in this game, and you saw that we had some very intensive duels, and I didn’t want someone to be booked twice,» Kovac added.
Jude, 22, also played for Dortmund from 2020-2023 before he made the switch to the Santiago Bernabeu.
Dortmund Play Real at the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey on Saturday.
