Football, DFB: The new national coach Hansi Flick will play his first international matches with the German national soccer team without veteran Mats Hummels. That reported the Kicker one day before the official announcement of the first selection by Flick this Friday. Borussia Dortmund’s defense chief was unable to properly prepare for the new season due to persistent patellar tendon problems, which had already affected the 32-year-old permanently during the European Championship. In this respect, renouncing Hummels seems logical. Hummels has only recently been fully back in training at BVB and, according to “Kicker” information, should “continue his development program in Dortmund and only join the DFB team again in October”.
When rebuilding the national team towards the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Flick wants to continue to rely on the experience of former world champions such as Hummels and Bayern professional Thomas Müller (31). “The best players are invited. If they perform at their best, which I assume they can still do, they are part of this team,” said Flick recently to older players like Hummels. Flick’s predecessor Joachim Löw and attacker Müller brought this back to the national team after more than two years at the EM. Hummels’ Dortmund club colleague Marco Reus (32) is also expected to return to the national team. Flick recently praised the BVB captain when he was introduced as national coach as one of the best players in the front line of attack.
Football, Champions League: For the third time in a row, Austria’s champions RB Salzburg made it into the group stage – for the first time under the new German coach Matthias Jaissle. As in the first leg, Salzburg won 2-1 (2-0) at the Danish representative Brondby IF. Sheriff Tiraspol was the first club from the top division of Moldova to reach the group stage. The team from the de-facto independent Republic of Transnistria achieved a 0-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb after the 3-0 first leg win. In the Ukraine, French international striker Wissam Ben Yedder put Monaco on track early with his brace (18th / 39th). Donetsk, which has only not played in the group stage since 2010 in 2016/17, saved itself through Marlos’ goal (74th) in extra time. Volland missed a huge chance to win in the 90th minute. A curious own goal by Ruben Aguilar (113th) sealed Monaco’s end.
Football, Premier League: England captain Harry Kane stays with Tottenham Hotspur. The striker, who has been heavily courted by the English champions Manchester City for months and, according to the British media, wanted to leave the club, made this clear on Wednesday on Twitter. “I’m staying at Tottenham this summer and will concentrate 100 percent on being successful with the team,” wrote the 28-year-old, whose contract in London runs until the summer of 2024.
This puts an end to the weeks of hanging around a possible change of the star striker to Man City. In Tottenham’s 1-0 (1-0) away win against Wolverhampton Wanderers last weekend, Kane was used for the first time this season. The fans who had traveled with him celebrated him with loud chants, which impressed the top scorer of the previous season according to his own statement. “It was amazing to be greeted like this by Spurs fans on Sunday and to read some of the supportive messages I’ve had over the past week,” Kane wrote.
After the EM, he reported back from vacation late and had to complete a five-day corona quarantine on top of that. Kane vehemently denied that it was a boycott. One of the reasons for the club icon’s willingness to change is the Spurs’ chronic lack of title. The last significant success Tottenham achieved in 1991 in the FA Cup. Since then, the club has only won the insignificant league cup twice. The last championship to date was celebrated by the Londoners in the 1960/61 season.
BVB, Transfer: The move of the Danish national player Thomas Delaney from DFB Cup winner Borussia Dortmund to the Spanish top club FC Sevilla is perfect. The midfielder signed a four-year contract until 2025 in Andalusia after the medical check on Wednesday. To Sport1-Information, both clubs agreed on a transfer fee of around six million euros plus possible bonus payments for the 29-year-old. Delaney moved from Werder Bremen to BVB in the summer of 2018 for 20 million euros. In his position in front of the defense, coach Marco Rose has an oversupply.
Delaney played 88 competitive games for Dortmund (4 goals / 11 assists), his greatest success at BVB was winning the cup last season. “I’m incredibly proud to have played for BVB. This club is one of the biggest in the world,” said Delaney, adding: “It’s sad for me to leave BVB, but we’re all falling apart as friends. I have I really enjoyed the time together with the team, the staff and the fans and I can say that I have always been 100 percent committed to them. “
Soccer, England: Arsenal FC made it into the round of 16 of the English League Cup thanks to a gala by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. In the 6-0 (3-0) away win over the second division side West Bromwich Albion, the ex-Dortmund player scored three goals and prepared another for the Gunners, who did not have various regular players in the starting line-up. Among other things, national goalkeeper Bernd Leno had been given a break.
Football, transfer market: There are transfer rumors about national player Jonas Hofmann from Borussia Mönchengladbach. The German champions FC Bayern Munich, among others, are interested in the 29-year-old striker, reported Sport image, Portal “sport1.de” and the kicker on Tuesday. Accordingly, the record champions should have felt loosely with him and his management. The contract of the three-time national player in Mönchengladbach runs until 2023, he has been playing at Borussia since 2016. However, the Munich team is already well-placed on the offensive. In addition to the center strikers Robert Lewandowski and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, the German internationals Serge Gnabry, Leroy Sané, Thomas Müller and Jamal Musiala as well as Kingsley Coman come on the flanks.
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