The German Football Association (DFB) has announced its provisional squad for the European Football Championship from June 14th to July 14th in Germany. In addition to the players named in a PR campaign by the DFB in recent days, nine other professionals have been nominated for the home European Championship: Benjamin Henrichs, Maximilian Beier, Alexander Nübel, Waldemar Anton, Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller, Jamal Musiala, Marc-André ter Stegen and Oliver Baumann.
With 27 nominees, the DFB currently has one player too many in the squad. The final squad may contain a maximum of 26 players and must be reported to UEFA by midnight on June 7th. The player who is being cut is said to be an outfield player because Julian Nagelsmann wants to have four goalkeepers in the squad.
The Champions League finalists from BVB were not nominated for the European Championship: Julian Brandt, Mats Hummels and Emre Can. Leon Goretzka from FC Bayern Munich is also missing from the DFB squad. All four players have recently been a frequent member of the international squad.
The German European Championship squad at a glance
Tor:
Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona), Alexander Nübel (VfB Stuttgart), Oliver Baumann (TSG Hoffenheim)
Defense:
Nico Schlotterbeck (Borussia Dortmund), Jonathan Tah (Bayer Leverkusen), Robin Koch (Eintracht Frankfurt), Maximilian Mittelstädt (VfB Stuttgart), Antonio Rüdiger (Real Madrid), David Raum (RB Leipzig), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Waldemar Anton (VfB Stuttgart), Benjamin Henrichs (RB Leipzig)
Midfield:
Robert Andrich (Bayer Leverkusen), Pascal Groß (Brighton & Hove Albion), İlkay Gündoğan (FC Barcelona), Chris Führich (VfB Stuttgart), Aleksandar Pavlović (Bayern Munich), Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen), Leroy Sané (Bayern Munich) , Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich)
Attack:
Niclas Füllkrug (Borussia Dortmund), Kai Havertz (Arsenal London), Deniz Undav (VfB Stuttgart), Maximilian Beier (TSG Hoffenheim)
The DFB had already announced a large part of the squad, namely 18 nominees, in bits and pieces in various ways since Sunday – including on social media, via influencers and on ARD.daily News. This approach was intended to direct the focus over several days to the players who, in the best case scenario, would give German football fans another summer fairytale after the 2006 home World Cup.
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The participation of Nico Schlotterbeck, Robin Koch, Manuel Neuer, Aleksandar Pavlović, Jonathan Tah, Niclas Füllkrug, Chris Führich, Maximilian Mittelstädt, Leroy Sané and Kai Havertz was announced in advance. The nominations of Robert Andrich, Pascal Groß, Joshua Kimmich, İlkay Gündoğan, Antonio Rüdiger, David Raum, Deniz Undav and Florian Wirtz were also already public.
Rejections to Hummels and Goretzka “not nice”
“It’s not nice to tell a player that he won’t be at a home European Championship. Of course, such conversations are emotional,” said Nagelsmann about the rejections of Hummels or Goretzka, for example. Hummels and Goretzka also “threw everything into being there”.
A “decisive point” for him as a coach was “that every player has his character, his traits.” Ultimately, his job is to “put the right ones together.”
European Championship preparations begin at the end of May
The national coach gathered the DFB squad on May 26th in the small town of Blankenhain in Thuringia. The players of the Champions League finalists Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund will miss the first part of the European Championship preparations. On June 3rd, the national team will play a test match in Nuremberg against Ukraine, which has also qualified for the European Championships. The European Championship dress rehearsal follows four days later in Mönchengladbach against Greece.
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Host Germany opens the European Championships on June 14th in Munich against Scotland. In addition to Scotland, the DFB team’s other group opponents are Hungary on June 19th in Stuttgart and Switzerland on June 23rd in Frankfurt am Main. The final will take place on July 14th in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
The German Football Association (DFB) has announced its provisional squad for the European Football Championship from June 14th to July 14th in Germany. In addition to the players named in a PR campaign by the DFB in recent days, nine other professionals have been nominated for the home European Championship: Benjamin Henrichs, Maximilian Beier, Alexander Nübel, Waldemar Anton, Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller, Jamal Musiala, Marc-André ter Stegen and Oliver Baumann.
With 27 nominees, the DFB currently has one player too many in the squad. The final squad may contain a maximum of 26 players and must be reported to UEFA by midnight on June 7th. The player who is being cut is said to be an outfield player because Julian Nagelsmann wants to have four goalkeepers in the squad.
