Roma prepares for Saturday's match against Borussia Dortmund. Niko Kovac has almost his whole squad available for the last friendly of the summer. Emre Can and Nico Schlotterbeck are the only long-term absentees. Julian Ryerson and Gregor Kobel have returned from the World Cup and could make their pre-season debut. Konstantinos Karetsas will make his home debut. Donyell Malen returns the other way. He made 132 appearances in black and yellow before his Roma loan turned permanent this summer. BVB old boy Ciro Immobile has retired. Paris FC confirmed it on Friday evening, after a career that ran to 650 games and more than 320 goals in five countries. Dortmund paid over €18m for him in 2014. He scored ten goals in 34 games, three of those in the cup against lower-league sides. The DFB-Pokal sends Die Schwarzgelben north. They play Hamburger Eimsbütteler BC away in the first round, and TV and stream details were published on Friday evening. Then comes Bayern. The Franz Beckenbauer Supercup falls eight days after tonight's friendly, so where to watch that was set out on Friday too. The league itself starts a week later. Hamburger SV are the visitors on Saturday, the 29th August, in an evening slot the Bundesliga picked as its opening Topspiel. The team is in third place in the final 2025 table, with 73 points, 23 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses in 38 games, with a recent form of 5 consecutive wins.
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Roma prepares for Saturday's challenge: Ricken blocks El Mala deal
Roma is in town for Saturday's match. Niko Kovac has almost his whole squad available for the last friendly of the summer.
