While England in the final of the U21 European Championship on Saturday (June 28, 2025 at 9 p.m., live ticker at sportschau.de) on players of Liverpool, Man City oder Arsenal Set, you are looking for in vain in the German squad player from the top clubs Bayern and BVB. That has a tradition.
The hero of the “Young Lions” in the semi -finals against the Netherlands was Harvey Elliott. With two goals in the 2-1 win, the offensive all-rounder almost alone decided. The most recent big party at Elliott has not been long ago: He has just become a master with the Liverpool FC, he was a fixture in the Arne Slot squad, only a broken foot in the first half of the season was the reason why he came to just 18 missions in the past season.
Elliott is not the only one for the English who plays his games in one of the big clubs. At the age of 18 at Arsenal, the foreign striker Ethan Nwaneri, who was considered a women’s child, had been able to use FC Arsenal 26 times and contributed four goals and two assists to qualify for the Champions League. Playmaker James Mcateee stood 15 times for Manchester City On the lawn. And Elliott’s club comrade Jarell Quansah, whose move from Liverpool to Leverkusen is practically fixed, was involved in the championship title with 13 games in the central defender position.
Freiburg and Frankfurt provide the scaffolding
There are no players from the top clubs such as Bavaria or Dortmund at the DFB team. The Austrian Paul Wanner officially belongs to FCB, but is borrowed from 1. FC Heidenheim due to a lack of regular opportunities and is considered a player of the FCH at the European Championship in Slovakia.
Professions of SC Freiburg and Eintracht Frankfurt present the scaffolding of Antonio di Salvo: the traditional Breisgauer, traditionally on young professionals, have goalkeeper Noah Atubolu, central defender Max Rosenfeld and midfielder Merlin Röhl with them. Frankfurt also provides a trio with the full -back Nathaniel Brown and Nmandi Collins and right -wing Ansgar Knauff. Two players each have the 1st FSV Mainz 05, the 1. FC Köln and Borussia Mönchengladbach at the start.
Lots of play practice in the clubs
Almost all of these players are regular forces at their clubs, some even have absolutely load -bearing roles. Eric Martel was largely responsible as a stabilizer in midfield for the recurrence of Cologne, Paul Nebel steered 16 scorer points for the successful season of the Mainz, Rocco Reitz is on the way in Gladbach to become the formative face of Borussia as a central midfielder.
By the way, without playing players from the Bavaria or the BVB squad, Traiditon has on the U21. In 2021 and 2017, the team brought the European championship title under Stefan Kuntz. Both times the German record champions were not involved in the DFB team. The Dortmunders had had Youssoufa Moukoko in 2021, but because of an injury he remained without use.
Freiburg also with three professionals in 2017
The fact that a club like Freiburg trains the national offspring perfectly and familiarizes him with everyday league life was also the case eight years ago: In the 1-0 final victory over Spain (goal scorer Mitchell Weiser), Marc Oliver Kempf, Janik Haberer and Maximilian Philipp also stood in the European Championship squad.