Bayern Munich striker Thomas Müller, world champion with Germany in 2014, has been called up for selection for the first time since the 2022 World Cup debacle, for friendly matches against Japan and France nine months before the start. Euro played at home. Müller, 44 goals in 121 appearances with the Mannschaft, takes advantage of the possible package of Niclas Füllkrug, victim of a “slight elongation” before the meetings against the Japanese, Saturday in Wolfsburg, and against the Blues, September 12 in Dortmund , announced the German federation Monday on X (ex-Twitter).
It is the first time since the World Cup in Qatar last December, when Germany could not extricate themselves from the group stage for the second time in a row, that coach Hansi Flick recalls the ex-champion 33-year-old world champion, top scorer at the 2010 World Cup and mainstay of the national team for more than a decade. It had happened during the international windows of March and June, wishing to “give a chance to the youngest”.
“Hansi Flick and I get along very well, both sportingly and from a personal point of view,” Müller said the previous weekend, saying he was “ready” for a possible nine-month call-up for the European championship to be held. in his country. After the elimination in the first round in Qatar despite a victory over Costa Rica (4-2), he had described as “absolute disaster” the hypothesis of having played his last match in selection, then affirmed that he would be ” always available” for selection.
