Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, away from the field since a fracture in December, is back on Monday for collective training, the Bavarian club announced. “Manuel Neuer is back on the pitch with the FC Bayern goalkeeping team,” according to a statement posted on the club’s website.
The 37-year-old captain “had a session with his fellow goalkeepers for the first time since breaking his right leg” during Monday morning training, which brought together players who had not played in championship the day before against FC Augsburg, the press release continues.
Neuer’s 2022-23 season ended in December with a broken right lower leg that occurred while on a skiing vacation. The emblematic goalkeeper of the club and the Mannschaft, the national team, “has now taken another step on the road to return”, according to Bayern Munich, while the vagueness remains on the date of resumption of competition of the world champion of 2014.
In the absence of Neuer and after the departure of his replacement Jan Sommer in the offseason, Bayern recruited Israeli goalkeeper Daniel Peretz, 23, at the end of August to assist Sven Ulreich, eternal N.2 at Bayern since 2015. I obviously want to play and I will train as best as possible, to show the coach what I am capable of,” Daniel Peretz told the press at the end of August.