Nominated as the fourth footballer
Roofer Chiara sends Manuel Neuer to the European Championships
May 14, 2024, 7:43 a.m
With the small-scale announcement of its European Championship squad, the German Football Association is taking a new approach before the home tournament. A roofer can announce the first goalkeeper in the DFB squad: Manuel Neuer is there.
Manuel Neuer received the next European Championship ticket in the DFB’s assembly line nomination. The number one of the national soccer team was presented in a video clip on Instagram on Monday evening by the social media craftsman Chiara as the European Championship participant of the national soccer team. The DFB continued the unusual form of squad announcements in TV programs and Internet video clips. The idea behind it: Celebrities, fans, influencers and media should generate attention – and increase anticipation for the hoped-for summer fairy tale 2.0.
The participation in the European Championships had previously been announced by Nico Schlotterbeck (via the ARD Tagesschau), Jonathan Tah (via care influencer Rashid Hamid and Oma Lotti on Instagram) and Aleksandar Pavlovic (by Frauke Ludowig on RTL Exclusiv). Until the official nomination date on Thursday (1 p.m./live on ntv) Around ten more tickets are expected to be allocated in Berlin. Nagelsmann will nominate a total of around 26 players for his provisional European Championship squad.
The EM ticket for Neuer is no surprise. Nagelsmann is planning on using the 38-year-old as the starting goalkeeper for the home tournament. However, the captain of FC Bayern Munich played his last international match at the World Cup in December 2022 in a 4-2 win against Costa Rica in Qatar. Shortly afterwards he suffered a complicated leg fracture while skiing, which forced him to take a long break.
The DFB comeback planned in March during the tests in France (2:0) and against the Netherlands (2:1) did not materialize at short notice due to a muscle injury. Neuer is likely to play his 118th international match for Germany in the European Championship test on June 3rd against Ukraine in Nuremberg. The European Championship will be the eighth major tournament in a row for him as number one since the 2010 World Cup. Marc-André ter Stegen will once again only have the role of deputy.