Borussia Dortmund national team
Fifth European Championship player announced live on radio broadcast
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Nagelsmann nominates Tah – “So there’s always something being discussed”
After Nico Schlotterbeck, Jonathan Tah from Bayer Leverkusen has now been nominated for the European Championship squad. The DFB wants to announce more names every day until the squad is finally announced on Thursday. Christian Beilfuss from the sports department says: “This is a new approach.”
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The DFB is continuing its unusual nomination strategy for the national team. On Tuesday morning, Niclas Füllkrug got his European Championship ticket – live on a WRD radio show. He is the fifth player to be confirmed before the official squad announcement on Thursday.
Niclas Füllkrug has long since given up the nickname “ugly bird” that he once gave himself. However, the Borussia Dortmund striker became an early bird in the assembly line nomination for the home European Championship. In the morning radio show on WDR’s 1live, the 31-year-old was issued with a ticket for the European Championships this summer (June 14th to July 14th) at an early hour on Tuesday. “I get goosebumps when I think about it,” said the BVB striker, who was connected by telephone, looking ahead to the tournament in a few weeks, “it makes me so proud.”
The DFB thus continued its unusual form of nominating national coach Julian Nagelsmann’s squad. Nico Schlotterbeck had previously received the European Championship confirmation via ARD “Tagesschau”, Aleksandar Pavlovic on RTL and Manuel Neuer and Jonathan Tah via social media films.
After Schlotterbeck, Füllkrug is Borussia Dortmund’s second and possibly last German European Championship player. Like his club colleague as well as Toni Kroos and Antonio Rüdiger, the attacker will start Nagelsmann’s tournament preparation late. The Champions League final is still scheduled to take place at Wembley on June 1st.
Füllkrug received signals from Nagelsmann in advance
Füllkrug has an impressive goal quota in the DFB team. He has scored eleven times in 15 international matches so far. The BVB striker can also be relied on under national coach Nagelsmann. He scored four times in six games, including in the late 2-1 win against the Netherlands in March.
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Füllkrug said that the nomination was no longer a surprise for him. Nagelsmann had already signaled this to him during the international matches against France and the Netherlands. “We talked in private for a long time at the last course,” said the striker. The national coach described what he expected from Füllkrug at the European Championships. “If he’s having these conversations and you’re not on the fence, you should understand that he’s planning on you.”
