National team
DFB-Team: concern with Schweinsteiger
It will be his first tournament as a DFB-captain. The question is: Is Bastian Schweinsteiger to EM again fit properly, so that he can help the team. National coach Joachim Löw is concerned.
As Bastian flew Schweinsteiger on Wednesday morning to the doctor of his confidence, flew with the concern. The to fear the end of the serious knee injury that could endanger the major goal of the national team-captain: The European Championships in France (10. June to 10. July) as a crowning achievement for his career in the DFB-Team. “It looks at the Moment, certainly not very positive. It could be that the internal volume is at least touched on in”, said national coach Joachim Löw on Wednesday afternoon.
Schweinsteiger had “hurt at the end of the training, without external influence, in the case of a passport”. How long will it be, “I can’t judge at the Moment.” Should hold true in the case of the investigation in practice by Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt in Munich, the worst fears, threatening the 31-Year-old is a Horror-scenario: After twelve years and 114 countries, a farewell to play in the national team through the back door.
The body groans under the strain
Because currently was Schweinsteiger only “a boss for some hours”. His first tournament as a captain is also his only as a game leader, whistling to the sparrows from the roofs. His body is creaking again under the strain of professional football is inflicting on the once a “Precocious” since now almost 15 years. A withdrawal from the national team after the European Championships, so you can hear from Schweinsteiger’s environment, is likely to be. Because he is as a Leader is important, he was nominated as a national coach, Joachim Löw, who despite a lack of top form for the first two games of the year against England on Saturday and Italy three days later.
The injury-related departure, nourishes the speculation, whether or not Schweinsteiger will be at all of EM. He should be fit, he can be löw’s support. Because it’s not just the coach remembers always to the image of 13. July 2014, Schweinsteiger, under the eye of a bleeding wound and the whole body is kind of a big bruise, after victory against Argentina (1-0 AET) raises the world Cup trophy in the air. The most important game of his career was most remarkable. Löw praised an “inhuman willpower, I’ve never seen”.
“Ambition, unbroken extremely high”
Schweinsteiger with a bleeding eye after the world Cup Triumph: “Inhuman power”
A better Moment to finish the peak is Schweinsteiger, so much seems clear. However, such a Leader you also need a EM. Although he was since promoted to captain, only 495 of 1350 minutes on the court. “The time until the Euro is still relatively long”, Löw said before the meeting in Berlin, the sports information service (SID): “Also at the 2014 world Cup, he has completed for us in training camp is hardly a complete unit with the team. But then we had him so far that he was in the important Play right there.” Schweinsteiger’s ambition was “unbroken extremely high, he wants to continue to perform at a high level.” A withdrawal will not be denied thereafter, also insured Löw.
Sure Schweinsteiger has made well after the world Cup Triumph beginning to wonder whether – as in the case of Philipp Lahm, Miroslav Klose or Per Mertesacker for him in the national team. However, the prospect of to lead the Team once more as the official captain of a tournament, was for the for years as a secret boss in force Bayern to appeal. “Pretty quickly after our Triumph in Rio, I noticed how much it excites me to confirm the success in Europe,” he explained: “It was not immediately clear, that my way with this Team.”
“Cheers to summer in France”
At Manchester United, where he moved in the summer after 17 years at Bayern Munich, he took from the risk of injury such as performance, the role of a reasons that he and the club imagined. The Daily Mail leads him as the third biggest Flop of the season. However, the DFB, the irritated anyone. “With such an experienced players like Bastian I’m not a great concern,” said Manager Oliver Bierhoff before the injury: “Maybe it is even good that he doesn’t have 60 games in front of the EM on the hump.” In an open letter to the Fans wrote Schweinsteiger recently, he wanted to experience in France, “a jubilant summer”. The success of the DFB Team, the captain should win Schweinsteiger for the first time as a world champion, a European championship, would have fulfilled his Mission.