German National Team News: Robin Gosens Speaks out, Thomas Müller Surprised by Newcomer, Joshua Kimmich Absent in Julian Nagelsmann’s Debut. Jamal Musiala Raves about Florian Wirtz, and Coaching Legend Criticizes Hansi Flick

Robin Gosens raises the alarm, Thomas Müller is surprised about a newcomer to the DFB team and Joshua Kimmich is missing from national coach Julian Nagelsmann’s debut. Jamal Musiala also raves about Florian Wirtz and a coaching legend criticizes Hansi Flick. All news and rumors about the German national team.

DFB team, news: Robin Gosens sounds the alarm

National player Robin Gosens has warned about current developments in football. Union Berlin’s left-back is particularly critical of the 2030 World Cup, which will be held on three continents and six countries, and the flow of money in Saudi Arabia.

“Football in general is currently on a very dangerous path that is not necessarily healthy,” explained Gosens in an interview with the Editorial Network Germany: “More and more money, more and more commerce. Personally, I want sport to be the focus and not the focus Business is degenerating”. However, “unfortunately we have to come to terms with this to some extent,” he added.

Because the 2030 World Cup is scheduled to begin in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay and then continue in Morocco, Spain and Portugal, the chances of another World Cup taking place in the desert in 2034 are increasing. 12 years to Qatar.

FIFA announced that in accordance with the rotation principle, only representatives from Asia and Oceania should apply for the major event. Saudi Arabia therefore has a good chance of winning the contract after the domestic league launched a major transfer offensive last year.

However, Gosens defended the numbers that were circulating to him: “We are very lucky to be involved in the world’s most popular sport, which means there is a lot of money involved, which also affects our contracts. I think I have to work for that. but don’t apologize.”

DFB team, news: Thomas Müller is surprised about the newcomer

Thomas Müller has such a good impression of DFB newcomer Chris Führich that he is surprised at his career.

“I was surprised that a player like Chris Führich didn’t make the leap into the spotlight more quickly,” said Müller about the VfB Stuttgart offensive player. Now he wants to spend more time with his new teammate.

“I have to ask him how his career has been so far, but a player with so much wit and agility, good shooting technique – how come it is only now, in his mid-20s, that he is regularly showing his potential at Stuttgart. I have to follow up,” said Müller.

A brief classification: Führich ended up in Schalke 04’s youth academy as a child before returning to Dortmund’s second team via the youth teams at BVB, VfL Bochum, Oberhausen and 1. FC Köln. After a loan to SC Paderborn, Führich finally took off. The move from East Westphalia to VfB Stuttgart followed in 2021.

Führich was carefully developed there and is now an undisputed regular player. With two goals and five assists so far this season, he is one of the faces of the Swabian recovery behind high-flyer Serhou Guirassy.

DFB team, news: swipe at Hansi Flick

Peter Neururer praised Julian Nagelsmann and in this context could not resist taking a swipe at his predecessor Hansi Flick. “Performance finally counts again,” said Neururer in his Wettfreunde column.

The 68-year-old is particularly pleased about the return of Mats Hummels: “Hummels is back in the team because he is the outstanding central defender in Germany at the moment, who has the best opening of the game. He is able to control and delegate a defense.”

Nagelsmann had “innovative thoughts. We can look positively into the future. A new spirit is there,” said Neururer, who also discussed the initial appointment of Kevin Behrens (1. FC Union Berlin) and Robert Andrich (Bayer Leverkusen): “We have nine again. Behrens is a good addition to Füllkrug in the team. In Andrich, we again have a strong fighting and running player in the number six. This is exactly the person we need in the defensive midfield.”

DFB team, news: Jamal Musiala raves about Florian Wirtz

Two magic feet for Germany? Jamal Musiala wouldn’t mind playing with Florian Wirtz more often in the national team. “Me and Flo have a very good relationship, we are good friends,” said the Bayern Munich professional about the Leverkusen player before the duel with the USA.

“We always have fun together on the pitch, we combine well and look for each other. We both just have fun playing football together,” said Musiala with shining eyes. It is possible that a collaboration will soon work at club level; Bayern should continue to show interest in signing Wirtz.

And national coach Julian Nagelsmann is also apparently thinking about letting the two 20-year-olds go together. “I read a few months ago that the two of them can’t play together, but I think it’s a very good idea,” said the new boss. Musiala and Wirtz have the “extreme talent to get the ball into the half-spaces in front of the chain, to dribble towards the goal at speed and to use other players,” he enthused.

Musiala was already trained by Nagelsmann in Munich. “The hopes that Germany has in him should not crush him, but rather make him proud,” he said, “he should not get crazy, but remain the street footballer that he is. He is a huge footballer and has a lot of potential in everything areas,” explained Nagelsmann.

DFB team, news: Julian Nagelsmann practices the national anthem

Julian Nagelsmann also prepared for his debut as national coach in a very special way off the pitch. “I briefly practiced the national anthem again so that it worked,” said the 36-year-old with a smile before the duel with the USA on Saturday.

But he didn’t sing in front of the team at his debut. That would have been “a good idea,” thought Jamal Musiala, who sat next to Nagelsmann on the podium at the humorous press conference. “I tell Thomas to plan something,” added Musiala, referring to team joker Müller.

In other areas, however, the new boss was a bit careless, as he joked. “I think the stadium is nice, it’s nice that everything isn’t always covered, even if it’s supposed to rain. I don’t even have a jacket with me, but it doesn’t matter, I’ll manage it anyway,” he said.

The match will take place at Pratt & Whitney Stadium and around 40,000 spectators are expected. The open arena reminded him of one of his former places of work as a footballer, said Nagelsmann – and probably meant the Grünwalder Stadium in Munich, where he played in 1860.

At the same time, he did away with an old German football principle. “You always want: you have to be eleven friends. That’s cheese in my eyes,” he said. In a football team it is like in a school class: you have friends, you are “neutral” towards others, and then there are some with whom you “don’t want to drink cocoa at break”.

Nagelsmann wants to “create an atmosphere not by doing team building or constantly talking,” but through attractive football. “The players have to say: they’re excited to play there.” Then a good spirit arises on its own.

DFB team, News: Littbarski believes Germany will be successful at the European Championships at home

World champion Pierre Littbarski believes the German national team will have a successful home European Championship in 2024. “If we really try hard, then we belong in the upper range,” Littbarski told the SID at a Suzuki PR meeting in Bensheim.

“We have a good team together,” he continued. Florian Wirtz and Jamal Musiala are “two super talents”. The 73-time Germany international praised the nomination of Thomas Müller and returnee Mats Hummels, “because they simply belong there in terms of performance.”

About the DFB team’s much-criticized trip to the USA, the 1990 world champion said: “The long flight has to be put aside, we used to fly long distances and still hit the ball.” A test match is always good, but the flight time is “of course very tiring”.

The German national team still has eight months until the start of the home European Championship. Littbarski, who took part in the home European Championships in Germany in 1988, hopes that the DFB team can ignite enthusiasm. But the team “still has to do something to get us in the right mood.”

Littbarski scored 18 goals in 73 games in the DFB jersey. The offensive player played a total of 406 times (116 goals) in the Bundesliga for 1. FC Cologne.

DFB team, news: Pfannenstiel praises USA

Former Bundesliga manager Lutz Pfannenstiel believes the USA national team will pose problems for Germany on Saturday evening. “The Americans have a young, fast team, especially in the offensive area,” said the sports director of MLS newcomer St. Louis City to the Mittelbayerische Zeitung.

“All the top people play for clubs in Europe,” said the 50-year-old, referring to the offensive stars Christian Pulisic (AC Milan), Giovanni Reyna (Borussia Dortmund) and Timothy Weah (Juventus Turin).

Pfannenstiel is on site for the television station RTL and meets an old acquaintance in a new role. “I’m looking forward to seeing Julian Nagelsmann again,” said Pfannenstiel about his former companion from Hoffenheim and added: “To experience him as national coach in Hartford is a special situation for me.”

In the MLS, the former Düsseldorfer’s club is currently rushing from one record to the next. “We pretty much set every record there is to set,” Pfannenstiel said of St. Louis City’s first MLS season. The newcomer is already confirmed as the main round winner before the last match day and will play for the title in the subsequent play-offs.

DFB team, News: Lahm demands personnel continuity from Nagelsmann

With a view to the home European Championships, tournament director Philipp Lahm calls for national coach Julian Nagelsmann to have personnel continuity instead of experiments. “He has to give his team a face, a profile,” said the 2014 world champion captain in Saturday’s edition of Münchner Merkur and tz: “To do this, he has to let the players who are supposed to represent this face play regularly. Because that’s the only way a hierarchy is created in a team.”

As a result, the nation and the fans could “identify with the team” again, said Lahm: “And then I am convinced that success will come again. I am positive because I think to myself: You can do it – and that too in the shortest possible time!”

In his first days in office, he had the impression that Nagelsmann exuded “energy” and “I think that’s good in the current situation,” said the 39-year-old.

DFB team, news: Joshua Kimmich is out

National coach Julian Nagelsmann has to do without Joshua Kimmich at his premiere. The Bayern Munich midfielder, who had a cold, was missing from the final training session at the MLS club New England Revolution’s grounds in Foxborough on Friday – so he is not able to play.

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DFB team, news: Christoph Daum praises Julian Nagelsmann

Christoph Daum praised Julian Nagelsmann highly. The 69-year-old sees the new national coach on the same level as the great German trainers.

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