With Nick Woltemade and Paul Wanner, but without Youssoufa Moukoko and numerous club World Cup participants: Despite many cancellations, the German U21 goes to Slovakia (June 11th to 28th) despite many cancellations.
“The anticipation is huge, we have a strong team,” said DFB coach Antonio di Salvo about his initially 26-person contingent.
Woltemade also at Nagelsmann
Striker Woltemade is standing a month ago, national coach Julian Nagelsmann will probably also nominate the striker of VfB Stuttgart for the final four of the Nations League (June June 8th). “Julian’s call also came to be needed. He goes up to the A national team and I hope that he will shoot the A national team to the National League title,” said Di Salvo.
In theory, such a double start would also have been possible for Florian Wirtz, but a return to the U21 was excluded from the start.
Players from Munich, Dortmund and Salzburg are missing
Di Salvo has to do without almost all players from Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Red Bull Salzburg-especially FCB goalkeeper Jonas Urbig, BVB duo Maximilian Beier and Karim Adeyemi, the future Bayern professional Tom Bischof as well as Leandro Morgalla and Hendry Blank (both Salzburg).
“I was in constant exchange with Max Eberl and also the other clubs,” said Di Salvo about the difficult squad finding. After all, the Wanner, who was also loaned by Bayern to Heidenheim, is also included for Austria.
Moukoko is not part of the European Championship squad, in qualifying with six goals still the best German shooter, but most recently at OGC Nice. “20 minutes, that’s just too little, and he is aware of that too,” said Di Salvo.
Nevertheless taken
Nevertheless, the contingent reads well: with Noah Atubolu (SC Freiburg) in goal, Ansgar Knauff (Eintracht Frankfurt), Rocco Reitz (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Paul Nebel, Nelson Weiper (both FSV Mainz 05), Brajan Gruda (Brighton & Hove Albion) or Woltemade has several seasoned players.
Training camp in Blankenhain
The German U21 will meet a training camp in Blankenhain from Monday, and on June 8th we will go to Slovakia. Opponents in the preliminary round are Slovenia, the Czech Republic and defending champion England. Two years ago, the DFB team was also hit in the Czech Republic and England in the group phase, lost both games and missed the KO round.