The German women’s national team must do without star player Lena Oberdorf at the European Championship. Bavaria’s director Bianca Rech categorically excludes an assignment at the final round.
The third edition of the DFB Women’s Week is just running again. Around the cup final of women – this time between Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen (Thursday 4 p.m./Live in the ARD) – the visibility of women’s football is to be increased from the base to the top.
Although sometimes a few sentences are enough to attract attention. Almost by the way, Bianca Rech, director of women’s football at Bayern, made it clear on the edge of the seventh championship of Munich women that Lena Oberdorf should not be nominated for the European Championship in Switzerland (July 2 to 27). “She is in team training. But she is not up to date that she can play a European championship.”
Dampers for the national coach
At this point, such an announcement for the selection of national coach Christian Wück comes as a surprise: The 51-year-old had wanted to keep the door open for one of the best German footballers until the end. “With OBI it is just the case that the time component could actually fit.Wück had last said.
He still has no fixed scaffolding for his first tournament in women’s football – there is a lack of robust stops in the field. A fit Oberdorf would always be part of an axis in the central midfield. But now the manager of the Bayern campus in this cause speaks a word of power. The 51-time national player is not an issue for the cup final anyway, the last Bundesliga departures at Carl-Zeiss Jena (May 5) and against the SGS Essen (May 11th) will probably come too early.
The outgoing Bayern coach Alexander Straus had only said in a media round on Friday: “At the moment she is not ready to play games without the risk of another injury. The problem child would still not be able to deny full team training.
The star shopping is still without a game for Bayern
Bayern had announced the obligation against a fixed transfer of 450,000 euros from rival VfL Wolfsburg in spring 2024, but the star shop has not played for the old and new masters to this day. The healing process of the knee injury suffered on July 16, 2024 at the European Championship qualification game against Austria with damage to the cruciate ligament and meniscus extends.
For Rech, the association is out of the question that the club is protected and paid for, who then first shows full commitment for the DFB selection. The FCB maker had already prevailed in a similarly stored case with Giulia Gwinn before the 2023 World Cup: At that time, national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg hoped in vain for the right-back of the right-back, who had just caught up her second cruciate ligament tear. Without today’s DFB captain, the national team in Australia was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Eklat before the 2023 World Cup with Bayern
Rech had prepared a scandal in preparation: the first training camp had to let the Munich national player whiz at the time because the FIFA departure periods were not clear. In the meantime, there were significant moods between the DFB and Bavaria – especially the then sporting director Joti Chatzialexiou made serious allegations, where Rech had also become deputy chairman of the ECA Women’s Football Committee at the time. The 44-year-old is considered to be extremely enforced. Neither Wück nor Nia Künzer want to arrive on a strength test.
The DFB sports director had just compliments the Munich colleague: the third championship is not least “clearly the handwriting” by Bianca Rech, with the “Landsight, persistence and high expertise” The success story wraps. This includes protecting the association’s interests. The association does not dare to install an additional training camp after the last Nation League duels against the Netherlands in Bremen (May 30) and against Austria in Vienna (June 3). The preparatory camp in Herzogenaurach will probably be enough from June 20 to lay the foundations for a successful European Championship. Without Lena Oberdorf.