The national coach Julian Nagelsmann is still planning to have Manuel Neuer as the first goalkeeper of the German national football team for the European Football Championship in the summer. “The decision doesn’t change because of a torn muscle fiber,” said Nagelsmann in Lyon, France. “It’s just a small injury, he won’t be out for eight months.” Neuer will probably only be unable to play for ten days.
In Lyon, the DFB team is currently preparing for an international match against France tomorrow, Saturday. In this game, the FC Bayern Munich keeper was originally supposed to make his comeback after a 15-month break due to injury. However, due to a torn muscle fiber that he sustained during training on Wednesday, he will miss the game and the game against the Netherlands on Tuesday.
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Marc-André ter Stegen from FC Barcelona will now guard the German goal in Lyon. “I’m glad we have two world-class goalkeepers,” said Nagelsmann. “Marc has the chance to be there now.” At the European Championship tournament in Germany, Ter Stegen is expected to be number two behind Neuer.
Neuer’s comeback to the DFB goal has been postponed until the beginning of June
Before Neuer’s latest injury, the national coach had spoken to both goalkeepers about the distribution of roles and supported Neuer in the role of regular goalkeeper. “I don’t revise every decision,” said Nagelsmann. “Manu played for an extremely long time.”
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However, Neuer will only have the opportunity to prepare for playing with the team in a few test games before the European Championship. Germany opens the tournament on June 14th with the first group game against Scotland. Before that, Neuer will only be able to play in goal in two friendly matches against Ukraine and Greece in the first week of June.
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Toni Kroos does everything differently. Back in November, in a special episode of Kicken kann er, we racked our brains about how the German national team should play. Julian Nagelsmann has now nominated his squad for the friendly matches against France and the Netherlands. Reason enough for the hosts of our football podcast to talk in detail again about the quality of the German players.
Both Oliver Fritsch and Christian Spiller are happy that Toni Kroos is back. Kroos has changed, says Fritsch, “he sometimes rolls up his sleeve half a centimeter higher.” However, there is always the danger that he will suffer too much from the mediocrity of his colleagues. Spoiled Madrilenian!
The two talk about Kroos’ ideal partner, as well as Joshua Kimmich, whom Spiller suddenly sees “at the cat’s table” of the national team. They are skeptical about Aleksandar Pavlovic and completely disagree about Deniz Undav. Both hosts don’t think much of Nagelsmann’s “momentum” thesis and concoct a lineup that would make José Mourinho’s hair stand on end.
Also in the pod: How long does Nagelsmann want to be without the country’s best goalscorer? And how would Mr. X set up?
“He can kick” is the football podcast from ZEIT ONLINE. It appears every two weeks and is dedicated to the best footballers of our time. We talk less about tactics and more about what really matters in football: the individuality of the players. You can find all episodes of the podcast here, all Powercard ratings here. Write us! We accept criticism of the show and suggestions for Mister X at [email protected].
The national coach Julian Nagelsmann is still planning to have Manuel Neuer as the first goalkeeper of the German national football team for the European Football Championship in the summer. “The decision doesn’t change because of a torn muscle fiber,” said Nagelsmann in Lyon, France. “It’s just a small injury, he won’t be out for eight months.” Neuer will probably only be unable to play for ten days.
In Lyon, the DFB team is currently preparing for an international match against France tomorrow, Saturday. In this game, the FC Bayern Munich keeper was originally supposed to make his comeback after a 15-month break due to injury. However, due to a torn muscle fiber that he sustained during training on Wednesday, he will miss the game and the game against the Netherlands on Tuesday.
