TV expert warns of EM-Start
“Need players who can handle high pressure”
Updated on June 12th, 2025 – 1:37 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The Olympic champion announced her career end a few months ago and is now an expert at a women’s tournament for the first time. She talks about her new role and her successors.
The world goalkeeper of 2014 takes a special look at her successors in the DFB goal. Compared to other nations such as Sweden or Denmark, Germany has a broad selection in goal, says Schult. “We can count ourselves lucky,” she says. In other countries, it is much more difficult to name five goalkeepers at the national team level.
At the same time, the 66-time international, who announced her end of her career in March, points out a central problem: “All goalkeepers who are in the haunted circle of the national team have not yet proven themselves at a top level. We need players in the tournaments who can deal with the high pressure.”
This also applies to Ann-Kathrin Berger, who goes to the tournament as number one. With her you have “a very experienced goalkeeper, although she has not yet played too many international matches (22, editor’s note) and only played a tournament with the Olympics,” analyzes Schult. Berger’s achievements at the Olympics were mixed. “She lives very much from the penalty held in the evaluation.” Nevertheless: “In the United States, in a top league, she demonstrated last year how good she was, there was elected goalkeeper of the year,” says Schult.
The European Championship in Switzerland runs from July 2nd to July 27th. The German team of national coach Christian Wück meets Poland, Denmark and Sweden in the preliminary round.