The Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder is part of the list of 26 players summoned by Flick, just like Thomas Müller, Manuel Neuer and Matthias Ginterthe four survivors of the title in Brazil eight years ago.
Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos, another of the heroes of 2014, resigned from playing for the German national team last summer, after the European Championship.
Flick has summoned three goalkeepers, including Manuel Neuer, completely recovered from the injury to his left shoulder that took him off the pitch for four weeks in Octoberwho will play his fourth World Cup after 2010, 2014 and 2018.
In attack, with Nationalmannschaft striker Timo Werner out, injured eight days ago, Hansi Flick has called up Werder Bremen’s almost 30-year-old Niclas Füllkrug, and young Youssoufa Moukoko from Borussia Dortmund, the youngest German player called up to play a World.
Füllkrug is having a great first part of the season, second best scorer in the Bundesliga behind French international Christopher Nkunku, while Moukoko, a native of Yaoundé and who will celebrate his 18th birthday on the day of the opening match of the 2022 World Cup between Ecuador and Qatar, shines with Dortmund.
Among the great absentees, in addition to Werner, who underwent surgery on his left ankle, Marco Reus has not fully recovered from his mid-September injury and will miss a second World Cup after 2014 due to injury. For his part, the central defender of Dortmund Mats Hummels has not been included in the list by decision of Flick.
World champion in 2014, Germany is looking for its fifth star in the 2022 World Cup, although it was eliminated prematurely in the 2018 World Cup in Russia in the first round and in the round of 16 against England at Euro 2020 last year.
Winner of the Champions League with Bayern Munich, Hansi Flick is preparing to play his first major tournament with the German national team, after succeeding Joachim Löw in the summer of 2021, after having been his second for eight years from the autumn of 2006 to golden summer of 2014.
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Goalkeepers (3): Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich/GER), Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona/ESP), Kevin Trapp (Eintracht Frankfurt/GER)
Defenses (9): Armel Bella Kotchap (Southampton/ENG), Matthias Ginter (Freiburg/GER), Christian Günter (Freiburg/GER), Thilo Kehrer (West Ham/ENG), Lukas Klostermann (RB Leipzig/GER), David Raum (RB Leipzig/ GER), Antonio Rüdiger (Real Madrid/ESP), Nico Schlotterbeck (Borussia Dortmund/GER), Niklas Süle (Borussia Dortmund/GER)
Midfielders (8): Julian Brandt (Borussia Dortmund/GER), Leon Goretzka (Bayern Munich/GER), Mario Götze (Eintracht Frankfurt/GER), Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City/ENG), Kai Havertz (Chelsea/ENG), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich /GER), Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich/GER), Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich/GER),
Forwards (6): Karim Adeyemi (Borussia Dortmund/GER), Niclas Füllkrug (Werder Bremen/GER), Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich/GER), Jonas Hofmann (Borussia Mönchengladbach/GER), Youssoufa Moukoko (Borussia Dortmund/GER), Leroy Sané (Bayern Munich/GER)