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Götze doesn’t play with his 19!
On Thursday afternoon, our national coach Hansi Flick (57) announced the final squad for the desert World Cup in Qatar, which begins in nine days (November 20th).
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Flick has nominated 26 players from the provisional 55-man squad who will leave for the short training camp in Muscat (Oman) on Monday and bring us the World Cup title on December 18th.
Now the DFB has also announced the shirt numbers. Surprise: Mario Götze (30/Eintracht Frankfurt), who shot us to the title against Argentina in Brazil in 2014, gets the number “11”. Klose wore this at the time.
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BILD presents the numbers of our 14 World Cup debutants and who wears a different number this time.
Tor:
1: Manuel Neuer (36/FC Bayern): also wears the German number one at the 2010 World Cup…
12: Kevin Trapp (32 / Eintracht Frankfurt): Nothing changes!
22: Marc-André ter Stegen (30 / FC Barcelona): Nothing changes for him!
Defense:
2: Antonio Rüdiger (29/Real Madrid): At the 2018 World Cup he wore 16!
3: David Raum (24/RB Leipzig): World Cup debut!
4: Matthias Ginter (28 / SC Freiburg): He already had it at the 2018 World Cup!
5: Thilo Kehrer (26 / West Ham): He takes over the number from BVB star Mats Hummels! World Cup debut!
15: Niklas Süle (27 / Borussia Dortmund): Like 2018!
16: Lukas Klostermann (26 / RB Leipzig): takes over the old Rüdiger number! World Cup debut!
20: Christian Günter (29/SC Freiburg): World Cup debut!
23: Nico Schlotterbeck (22/Borussia Dortmund): World Cup debut!
25: Armel Bella Kotchap (20/Southampton) World Cup debut! No international match yet!
Midfield/Attack:
6: Joshua Kimmich (27/FC Bayern): Wore No. 18 in 2018!
7: Kai Havertz (23 / Chelsea FC): In 2018, the “seven” was still worn by Julian Draxler! World Cup debut!
8: Leon Goretzka (27/FC Bayern): Like 2018!
9: Niclas Füllkrug (29/Werder Bremen): Will he become Germany’s super nine? Takes over the number of the injured Leipziger Werner
10: Serge Gnabry (27 / FC Bayern) takes over the jersey number from Mesut Özil! World Cup debut!
11: Mario Götze (30/Eintracht Frankfurt): In 2014 he shot us to the world championship title with number 19 (this time he has Sané). In 2018 he was not there!
13: Thomas Müller (33/FC Bayern): Like our triumph in 2014!
14: Jamal Musiala: (19 / FC Bayern) World Cup debut!
17: Julian Brandt (26/Borussia Dortmund): wore number 20 in 2018!
18: Jonas Hofmann (30 / Borussia Mönchengladbach): takes over the Kimmich number! World Cup debut!
19: Leroy Sané (26/FC Bayern): Wasn’t there in 2018! World Cup debut!
21: Ilkay Gundogan (32/Manchester City): Wie 2018!
24: Karim Adeyemi (20/Borussia Dortmund): World Cup debut!
26: Youssofa Moukoko (17/Borussia Dortmund): World Cup debut! Also hasn’t made a game for Germany yet.
Is Götze doing number 11 this time?
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