Terzic repays Dortmund faith before PSG semifinal clash
Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic faces Paris Saint-Germain in Wednesday's Champions League semifinal first leg enjoying a rare spell of certainty in the job.
Dortmund's progression to the last four would have been scarcely believable to anyone watching the 2-0 loss at PSG which opened their Champions League campaign in September.
A string of domestic setbacks including a German Cup exit in December had Terzic on the ropes.
He only survived a crisis meeting shortly before Christmas because of Dortmund's improved Champions League form.
Terzic's side qualified first in a group including PSG, last year's semi-finalists AC Milan and Saudi-backed Newcastle United.
Reaching the semifinals with wins over PSV Eindhoven and Atletico Madrid has all but guaranteed Terzic will be in the Dortmund dugout next season.
While not all the doubters have been silenced, getting past PSG would make Terzic just the third Dortmund manager, after club legends Ottmar Hitzfeld and Jurgen Klopp, to take the club to the Champions League final.
'SUPER IMPRESSIVE'
Terzic's story is the kind the Dortmund hierarchy, not to mention the club's fans, find appealing.
He was born in Menden, near Dortmund, in 1982, just two years after his parents had moved to Germany from the former Yugoslavia.
The life-long Dortmund fan attended his first game in 1991 at the Westfalenstadion against Duisburg, aged just nine.
"I don't remember much from my childhood, but that was super impressive," Terzic told German football magazine 11Freunde in May 2021.
Pictures from the 2012 German Cup final show a boyish Terzic among tens of thousands of Dortmund fans in Berlin's Olympic Stadium.
On that day, Dortmund thumped rivals Bayern Munich 5-2 to seal a league and cup double in what was
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