European Championship squad for the European Championship 2024
That’s what Nagelsmann says about the end for Hummels and Goretzka
Status: 16.05.2024 | Reading time: 3 minutes
“Structure that is still fragile” – This is Germany’s squad for the European Football Championship
Julian Nagelsmann has announced his squad for the European Football Championship. Four goalkeepers are taking part, one player is still being left out of the squad. Here the national coach explains his decisions and the goal he has set for himself and the team for the tournament.
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National coach Julian Nagelsmann has named the squad for the European Championships. Leon Goretzka and Mats Hummels will not be there. Nagelsmann talks about the decision and gives an insight into his inner life.
Julian Nagelsmann has named 27 players in the provisional squad for the European Championships. The national coach is doing without two greats from previous years: Mats Hummels and Leon Goretzka will not take part in the European Championship, which begins on June 14th with the German national team’s game in Munich. In central defense, Robin Koch, Jonathan Tah and Antonio Rüdiger were preferred over Hummels, in defensive midfield Nagelsmann relies on 20-year-old Aleksandar Pavlovic from FC Bayern and leaves Goretzka at home.
“I had long conversations with both of them. Of course they are very disappointed. They’re not nice conversations, I didn’t like these conversations as a club coach,” said Nagelsmann. He had a longer conversation with Hummels and Goretzka: “Of course they are very disappointed. Telling someone that they won’t be at the home European Championships isn’t nice. But as head coach I have to make a decision in the interest of the team.”
Leon Goretzka (l.) and Mats Hummels are not in the German European Championship squad
Source: dpa/Christian Charisius
The 36-year-old found it particularly difficult to reject Goretzka: “It was of course emotional to reject Leon Goretzka. We have known each other for a long time.” The national coach spoke personally to all the players who were used during his term but were not nominated for the European Championship and explained his decision to them. The reactions to this were very different. “The shortest conversation lasted 1:11 minutes, the longest 22:30 minutes,” said Nagelsmann.
“There are more pleasant conversations than this”
His job is to find players who are an ideal fit. “We tried to find the characters that best fit the group,” said Nagelsmann. Hummels and Goretzka obviously don’t seem to belong there. “Of course they are very disappointed. They have thrown everything into the last few weeks to be there. It is understandable that they are very sad about this. But they weren’t bad conversations. But it is also clear that there are more pleasant conversations than this,” said Nagelsmann.
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He outlined that “a clear role model” was important to him: “Then we decided that Jonathan Tah and Antiono Rüdiger, if they were fit and healthy, would be our regular central defenders. Then it’s simply a matter of which players are the most suitable for the positions behind them. What do we need for substitutes, what do they have to bring, what is the age structure behind them, what is the perspective? This all has an impact on the entire squad. But that doesn’t mean that if Antonio Rüdiger is in the first eleven, that Mats Hummels won’t be there. That’s too striking. But of course every squad decision has an impact on those who are behind.”
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The final European Championship squad, which must be reported to UEFA by June 7th, may contain a maximum of 26 players. Nagelsmann therefore has to delete at least one actor. “The shaky candidates know,” said Nagelsmann. He ruled out that it will be one of the four goalkeepers.
This is the provisional European Championship squad
Tor: Manuel Neuer (38 years old/FC Bayern Munich/117 international matches), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (32/FC Barcelona/40), Alexander Nübel (27/VfB Stuttgart/0), Oliver Baumann (33/TSG Hoffenheim/0)
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Defense: Nico Schlotterbeck (24/Borussia Dortmund/11), Jonathan Tah (28/Bayer Leverkusen/22), Robin Koch (27/Eintracht Frankfurt/8), Maximilian Mittelstädt (27/VfB Stuttgart/2), Joshua Kimmich (29/FC Bayern Munich/84), Antonio Rüdiger (31/Real Madrid/68), David Raum (26/RB Leipzig/20), Waldemar Anton (27/VfB Stuttgart/1), Benjamin Henrichs (27/RB Leipzig/14)
Midfield: Chris Führich (26/VfB Stuttgart/3), Aleksandar Pavlovic (20/FC Bayern Munich/0), Leroy Sané (28/FC Bayern Munich/59), Robert Andrich (29/Bayer Leverkusen/3), Pascal Groß (32 /Brighton & Hove Albion/5), Ilkay Gündogan (33/FC Barcelona/75), Florian Wirtz (21/Bayer Leverkusen/16), Toni Kroos (34/Real Madrid/108), Thomas Müller (34/FC Bayern Munich /128), Jamal Musiala (21/FC Bayern Munich/26)
Sturm: Niclas Füllkrug (31/Borussia Dortmund/15), Kai Havertz (24/FC Arsenal/44), Deniz Undav (27/VfB Stuttgart/1), Maximilian Beier (21/TSG Hoffenheim/0)
