Kai Havertz will not be available to the national soccer team in the upcoming World Cup qualification games-and may have to fear a longer failure.
“He will certainly not pack it, he has a knee injury“, said DFB sports director Rudi Völler on Monday (25.8.2025): “You don’t know exactly how to proceed the next few weeks. Whether an operational intervention is due or it is treated conservatively.”
Striker Havertz had stood on the pitch for FC Arsenal at the Premier League season opener at Manchester United (1-0) for 30 minutes. In the following 5: 0 against Leeds United last Saturday, he was missing because of an unspecified knee injury.
Last international match in November 2024
The offensive player had already missed large parts of the second half of last season after an operation due to a knee tendon injury. He completed his last international match so far in November 2024 in Hungary.
Havertz had missed the Final Four in the Nations League. The 26-year-old was planned by national coach Julian Nagelsmann for the start of the World Cup qualification in Slovakia (September 4) and three days later against Northern Ireland in Cologne.