Germany is taking 17-year-old striker Youssoufa Moukoko to the World Cup however Borussia Dortmund teammates Marco Reus and Mats Hummels have missed out.
Germany coach Hansi Flick named his 26-man squad for the match in Qatar on Thursday, rewarding Moukoko for scoring six targets and establishing 4 extra in 13 Bundesliga appearances this season. Moukoko is the youngest participant to achieve 10 profession Bundesliga targets. Final season, he grew to become the youngest participant to seem within the league.
“Youssoufa offers the group so much. He’s quick, he’s full of life,” Flick stated. “We’re trying ahead to him.”
Werder Bremen ahead Niclas Füllkrug was one other shock callup, filling a spot left by Timo Werner’s harm. Füllkrug has 10 targets in 13 Bundesliga video games this season.
“Momentum is on his aspect,” Flick stated of Füllkrug, who was enjoying within the second division final season and had but to play for Germany.
Earlier than Flick named his squad, he referred to the human rights scenario in Qatar and up to date homophobic feedback made by former Qatar participant Khalid Salman, a World Cup ambassador.
“It leaves us speechless, shocked,” Flick stated of the feedback. “It simply occurred in the previous few days. It’s extraordinarily essential on one hand that we because the DFB (German soccer federation) and the gamers clearly deal with the sports activities, sure, however after all we even have to handle what the human rights scenario is like in Qatar. We’ll must maintain our eyes and ears open there.”
Flick stated there was no query of simply concentrating on the soccer and ignoring all the opposite points. He stated it was the group’s “job” to handle them.
“We don’t need to duck away, however we need to draw consideration to the abuses once they occur,” Flick stated. “We nonetheless have leverage once we’re there and that’s why I believe it’s fairly clear that we try this, too. That’s what the DFB stands for and that’s what the group stands for. A couple of gamers have already addressed it, so I believe we’re heading in the right direction.”
Reus is lacking out on a serious match but once more. The Dortmund captain has struggled to get better from an ankle harm in September throughout the Ruhr derby win over Schalke. Reus made two temporary appearances since however complained of elevated ache final weekend.
“I and everybody else has to just accept it,” Reus wrote on Instagram. “A giant dream of mine has been burst.”
Reus missed Germany’s World Cup win in 2014 with an ankle harm sustained in a warmup sport, and a groin harm dominated him out of the 2016 European Championship. He performed for Germany on the 2018 World Cup however skipped the subsequent European Championship to get better after his season with Dortmund.
“It hurts us all,” Flick stated of Reus’ absence.
Hummels has performed effectively this season, however he’s additionally prone to harm and Flick evidently had doubts about whether or not the middle again might take care of the trials of a month-long match.
“We determined to provide a youthful participant an opportunity,” Flick stated.
Bayern Munich gamers once more have outstanding roles inside the squad — goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and midfielders Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka and Thomas Müller can be anticipated to guide from expertise.
Mario Götze, who scored the World Cup-winning aim within the last towards Argentina in 2014, is again within the squad after a protracted absence. Götze has returned to prime type since his Bundesliga return at Eintracht Frankfurt.
“When you take a look at his final video games, they had been at a excessive degree,” Flick stated. “He’s a superb participant and an awesome individual.”
Germany has a last warmup sport on Tuesday towards Oman in Muscat. The group’s first match on the World Cup can be towards Japan on Nov. 23. Spain and Costa Rica are additionally in Group E.
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Germany:
Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Marc-André ter Stegen (Barcelona), Kevin Trapp (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Defenders: Thilo Kehrer (West Ham), David Raum (Leipzig), Antonio Rüdiger (Actual Madrid), Niklas Süle (Borussia Dortmund), Matthias Ginter (Freiburg), Nico Schlotterbeck (Borussia Dortmund), Lukas Klostermann (Leipzig), Christian Günter (Freiburg), Armell Bella Kotchap (Southampton)
Midfielders: Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Leon Goretzka (Bayern Munich), Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich), Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich), İlkay Gündoğan (Manchester Metropolis), Jonas Hofmann (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Mario Götze (Eintracht Frankfurt), Julian Brandt (Borussia Dortmund), Kai Havertz (Chelsea)
Forwards: Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich), Leroy Sané (Bayern Munich), Karim Adeyemi (Borussia Dortmund), Niclas Füllkrug (Werder Bremen), Youssoufa Moukoko (Borussia Dortmund)
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