The eleven-member jury of the German Academy for Football Culture has made a preselection of eleven slogans that can be considered for the football slogan of the year.

National player Goretzka is the only one to be represented with two quotes in the preselection of eleven sayings put together by an eleven-person jury of experts.

In addition to Goretzka (FC Bayern Munich), his team-mate Süle and coach Nagelsmann, Bundesliga coaches Steffen Baumgart (1. FC Cologne) and Christian Streich (SC Freiburg) are also preselected with sayings.

HSV legend Horst Hrubesch and ex-referee Manuel Gräfe also made it into the selection.

Dortmund's sports director Michael Zorc, St. Pauli trainer Timo Schultz and journalist Klaas Reese complete the field.

You can vote online up to and including September 22nd.

The result then decides 70 percent on the final placements - 30 percent of the jury, which includes presenter Katrin Müller-Hohenstein and musician Thees Uhlmann, is included.

The prize, which has been awarded since 2006, is endowed with 5000 euros for a charitable purpose.

The eleven nominated sayings:

“Corona is like football.

A single contact is enough to turn everything upside down. "(Leon Goretzka)

"The greatest danger to professional football does not come from the fans, but from the officials." (Klaas Reese)

"A game is only over when the referee whistles and I stop yelling." (Steffen Baumgart)

"It's nice to have 82 million national coaches again and not 82 million virologists." (Leon Goretzka)

“There was a contact.

I always thought there had to be a foul. "(Christian Streich)

"Football is only fun if you also enjoy it." (Horst Hrubesch)

“As a child I always thought that his name was Lotoma and his last name was Thäus.

Then I called the fan shop and said I would like a jersey with the 10th Lotoma on it.

And they said there was no Lotoma. "(Julian Nagelsmann)

“I would also have liked to have been a national player once.

Unfortunately, East Frisia was never an independent state.

So there was no chance for me. "(Timo Schultz)

"Unfortunately, arguments do not change anything in this association, only the tax investigators or judges." (Manuel Gräfe)

"When I play shit, I don't feel like doing the interviews that much, and when I play well, I don't feel so much interested in interviews either." (Niklas Süle)

"We adhered to the rules of distance in the game against the ball in an exemplary manner." (Michael Zorc)