Jogi announcing 30 names

[connorblond.livejournal.com]

… for the preliminary World Cup squad … with some surprises!

Goal: Manuel Neuer (Bayern München), Roman Weidenfelder (Borussia Dortmund), Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover 96)

Defense: Jerome Boateng, Philipp Lahm (Bayern München), Erik Durm, Kevin Großkreutz, Mats Hummels, Marcel Schmelzer (Borussia Dortmund), Benedict Höwedes (Schalke 04), Marcell Jansen (HSV), Per Mertesacker (FC Arsenal), Shkodran Mustafi (Sampdoria Genua)

Midfield: Mario Goetze, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Müller, Toni Kroos (Bayern München, Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), Lars Bender (Bayern Leverkusen), Leon Goretzka, Julian Draxler, Max Meyer (Schalke 04), Matthias Ginter (FC Freiburg), André Hahn (FC Augsburg), Sami Khedira (Real Madrid), Lukas Podolski, Mesut Özil (FC Arsenal), Andre Schürrle (FC Chelsea)

Offense: Miroslav Klose (Lazio Rom), Kevin Volland (1899 Hoffenheim).

That is … unexpected. Not that he doesn't take Gomez. I kind of expected that. But … Goretzka? Meyer? Ginter? Mustafi? And only Klose and Volland????

No Ter Stegen! Oh my.

Comments

[jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com]

Even Pep can't make it work against big opposition without Messi.

I'm most concerned by this decadent bullshit of putting Lahm in midfield.

[connorblond.livejournal.com]

haha! I don't think he will be there during the WC. At Bayern it may work, but with the abundance of midfielders Lahm really is needed somewhere else.