Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer withdrew from German national team training today due to a muscle fiber tear in his left thigh, which will frustrate his return in the friendly match that Germany will play this Saturday against France in Paris.
He will also not play next week’s match against the Netherlands in Frankfurt on Tuesday, national team coach Julian Nagelsmann said today in a press conference.
Neuer “suffered a tear in his muscle fibers this morning in training. That means he’s out for both games and maybe also for Bayern against Dortmund, but that’s not my problem. “It’s very annoying,” said the technician.
The 37-year-old goalkeeper has already left the hotel where the team was concentrated in Gravenbruch, near Frankfurt, according to the sports media Kicker.
According to several German media, Nagelsmann wanted to nominate the goalkeeper as the starting goalkeeper for the Euro Cup being held in Germany this year and the Blaugrana’s Marc-André ter Stegen as a substitute.
The latter, six years younger, will replace Neuer in the matches against France and the Netherlands, Nagelsmann confirmed.
Ter Stegen did a good job during the Bayern player’s absence when he fractured his tibia and fibula while skiing in December 2022.
The two have been rivals in the national team for 12 years.
After Neuer’s injury following the embarrassing elimination in the preliminary round of the World Cup in Qatar, Ter Stegen’s time seemed to have arrived, but now Neuer was going to return as number one and with his sights set on the European Championship.
Neuer, for whom the Euro Cup would be his eighth major tournament as the starting goalkeeper of the German team after the 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 World Cups and the 2012, 2016 and 2021 Euro Cups, will not in any case recover the captain’s armband, which will continue to carry Ilkay Güdnogan, as Nagelsmann already made clear. EFE
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