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What Qualifies as Success?

Borussia Dortmund’s business is winning matches and grooming some of the world’s best young talent. To do both, sometimes you have to put up with a few growing pains.

Three of Dortmund’s crown jewels: Giovanni Reyna, Erling Haaland and Jadon Sancho.Credit...Friedemann Vogel/EPA, via Shutterstock

Even after Lucien Favre turned 60, he could still do things with a ball that left even some of European soccer’s brightest talents just a little awe-struck.

He could juggle it as well as any of the budding superstars under his tutelage at Borussia Dortmund.