Rabbi Matondo: Schalke player warned after training in Dortmund shirt with Jadon Sancho's name
Rabbi Matondo and Jadon Sancho are friends and played in Manchester City's academy before moving to Germany
Tuesday 14 July 2020 18:05, UK
Wales teenager Rabbi Matondo got in trouble with his club Schalke over an Instagram post showing him training in a shirt of fierce rivals Borussia Dortmund.
The 19-year-old was wearing a shirt bearing the name of his friend and Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho during a gym workout.
It was later deleted but not before angry comments from supporters and a couple of former players.
The post led to Schalke sports director Jochen Schneider ringing the player to tell him it was unacceptable.
Schneider told Sky in Germany: "I made it clear to Rabbi Matondo on the phone what I thought of such a rash action. He is only 19 years old but he should not have allowed this to happen.
"We clearly told him that he had to show the right reaction to his misconduct on and off the pitch."
Matondo and Sancho played together in the Manchester City academy before moving to Germany to develop their careers.
Matondo left Manchester City in 2019 to join Bundesliga side Schalke for a £10m fee on a four-and-a-half-year contact which will run until 2023.
Around 20 miles separate the cities of Schalke and Dortmund who have had a deep football rivalry for the last hundred years.
The rivalry was developed in the 1920s when both clubs were at the centre of the coal and steel industry in Germany.
