National coach Julian Nagelsmann will nominate Jonathan Tah in the provisional squad for the home European Championships. The German Football Association (DFB) announced this on Monday (May 13, 2024) in a video on Instagram.
Tah’s nomination is no surprise. The 28-year-old is having an outstanding season at Bayer Leverkusen and was named by Nagelsmann as a regular in central defense alongside Antonio Rüdiger in the successful European Championship tests in March in France (2-0) and against the Netherlands (2-1).
He has played 23 international matches for the DFB team since 2016, but has not yet played in a major tournament.
DFB wants to announce further names before the provisional European Championship squad is announced
Nagelsmann will announce his provisional squad for the EURO on Thursday (1 p.m.) in Berlin. However, the DFB wants to announce further names in advance in the coming days. On the one hand, this is intended to increase fans’ anticipation of the EURO and, on the other hand, to prevent the names of the European Championship participants from being leaked to the media.
It was announced in advance on Sunday that Nico Schlotterbeck from Borussia Dortmund would be nominated for the provisional European Championship squad.
Some positions in the European Championship squad are still unclear. Bayern striker Serge Gnabry, for example, suffered a torn muscle bundle in his thigh during the Champions League exit at Real Madrid. He will probably be out of action.
ARD broadcasts numerous games
The European Championships will take place in Germany from June 14th to July 14th. The games will be played in ten cities: Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart. ARD and ZDF will each broadcast 17 of the 51 games live. A further 17 games will be broadcast by RTL. All games can also be followed live in the audio stream and ticker on sportschau.de.
In the opening game, Germany meets Scotland. Other group opponents are Hungary and Switzerland. At the last European Championship, Germany was eliminated by England in the round of 16.
