Berlin (AFP)
The Parisians Julian Draxler and Thilo Kehrer, in the recovery phase, are absent from the list unveiled Thursday by the coach of Germany Joachim Löw for qualifying matches for Euro 2020 against the Netherlands and Ireland. North.
Present in qualifying matches against Estonia and Belarus last June, attacking midfielder Draxler and defender Kehrer are both touched. They have therefore logically not been called.
"With our young team, we have consciously chosen a new direction in which we will continue to go," said Löw, who has almost dismissed the entire generation of 2014 world champions after the failure of the World Cup in Russia, in view of rebuild for the future.
The only neophyte of the group will be the young striker of Freiburg, Luca Waldschmidt, who replaces Leroy Sané, badly injured with Manchester City.
If Bayern is the most represented club (five players), the RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund manage to place three players each.
Germany will first host the Netherlands, which it had beaten 3-2 in March in the first leg, before going to Northern Ireland, the first of the group with a game in advance, to try to take back the head.
The list of players called to face the Netherlands (06/09) and Northern Ireland (09/09):
Goals: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona FC / ESP), Bernd Leno (Arsenal FC / ENG)
Defenders: Matthias Ginter (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Marcel Halstenberg (RB Leipzig), Lukas Klostermann (RB Leipzig), Nico Schulz (Borussia Dortmund), Niklas Stark (Hertha Berlin), Niklas Süle (Bayern Munich), Jonathan Tah (Bayer Leverkusen) , Jonas Hector (1. FC Cologne)
Midfielders: Julian Brandt (Borussia Dortmund), Emre Can (Juventus Turin / ITA), Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich), Leon Goretzka (Bayern Munich), Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City / ENG), Kai Havertz (Bayer Leverkusen), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid / ESP), Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund)
Attackers: Luca Waldschmidt (SC Freiburg), Timo Werner (RB Leipzig)
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