DFB-Team: Hansi Flick apparently stopped Ilkay Gundogan from national team resignation
GER ONLY Hansi Flick DFB Germany 2019
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Ilkay Gundogan has a moderate European Championship behind him. Hansi Flick could now apparently prevent a resignation from the DFB team.
Germany coach Hansi Flick can apparently continue to rely on Ilkay Gundogan in the national team, although he had probably played openly with thoughts of resigning before the European Championship in the summer. This is what the Image-Newspapers.
According to this, Flick contacted the 30-year-old midfielder in the service of Manchester City immediately after the European Championship and stressed that he wanted to plan with Gundogan for the future. However, the ex-Dortmund should have asked for time to think in order to come to a decision on vacation.
With Flick, there should have been a conversation last week, in the course of which Gundogan told the new national coach, to continue to be available to him in the national team.
Reason for this should be loud Image even the bitter history of Gündogan in the national team have been. He missed the World Cup and the title win in 2014 due to a protracted back injury, the Euro 2016 due to a knee injury. At the disastrous World Cup debacle in 2018, he was not only criticized for a photo in the run-up to the tournament with the controversial Turkish President Erdogan, but also only a meager 58 minutes on the court.
At the 2021 European Championship, he missed the round of 16 due to a skull bruise and sat on the bench for 90 minutes against England, having previously been in the starting line-up in all three group matches. With this sad history Gundogan did not want to end his national team career, it says in the Image-Report.
Flick debut as national coach: DFB team doomed to victory
Thus, Toni Kroos currently remains the only German national player who has announced his resignation after the European Championship. “This is a decision for the family and for me, because it is also good for me that I am more with the family. I also want to be there and needed as a husband and dad,” Kroos explained this step.
The first international matches under Flick’s leadership as national coach are scheduled for the beginning of September. In the World Cup qualifiers, Germany will face Liechtenstein (2.9.), Armenia (5.9.) and Iceland (8.9.). After the 1:2 defeat against North Macedonia, the DFB team is currently only in third place in the qualifying group J and is doomed to victory at Flick’s baptism of fire.
