EURO 2024: Germany Drops Hummels and Goretzka from Squad

Euro 2024 hosts Germany named a largely expected preliminary squad on Thursday, with Mats Hummels and Leon Goretzka the only notable absentees.

Manager Julian Nagelsmann has four goalkeepers in his squad, with VfB Stuttgart’s Alexander Nübel joining Manuel Neuer, Oliver Baumann, and Marc-André ter Stegen as Nagelsmann otherwise largely showed faith in the players he has used over the past seven months.

Euro 2024 hosts Germany named a largely expected preliminary squad on Thursday, with Mats Hummels and Leon Goretzka the only notable absentees.

Manager Julian Nagelsmann has four goalkeepers in his squad, with VfB Stuttgart’s Alexander Nübel joining Manuel Neuer, Oliver Baumann, and Marc-André ter Stegen as Nagelsmann otherwise largely showed faith in the players he has used over the past seven months.

“When you have this structure, which is still growing but fragile after our performances in March, bringing in new elements could trigger an implosion of that structure and you would have to start from scratch,” Nagelsmann said ahead of his first international tournament.