Völler announced
DFB team has to do without Kai Havertz in the World Cup qualification
25.08.2025 – 10:14 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
With Marc-André Ter Stegen, the DFB is missing from the tram goalkeeper in the World Cup qualification. Now there is another well -known failure.
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 at a media appointment in Hürtgenwald: “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.
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.