TSG Hoffenheim: Four U-21

Actually, Dennis Geiger had been firmly planned as a leader of the old U 21. But after a thigh op in February, the Hoffenheim midfielder had missed the U-21 EM, the title win and later also Olympia. In the now reformed DFB selection, Geiger's successors are trying to establish themselves. In the case of an EM qualifying game of the defending champion on Tuesday in Latvia, the TSG had four candidates in the square, including a host.

Angelo Stiller had already stood in the course at the 6-0 in San Marino in the U 21, in Latvia, Hoffenheim's new approach was also allowed to return from the beginning of Ran and even scored his first goal for the U 21. with a strolled linkage from 18 meters Had silvery had shot the DFB team with 2: 1 in the lead. I realized that there is no one behind me and just drafted, exactly in the gap, described the 20-year-old, which runs since the U 17 for the DFB.

By contrast, Luca Philipp celebrated his absolute debut for Germany at the goal with his first appearance in the U 21. The goalkeeper, who currently plays at the TSG behind Oliver Baumann and Philipp Pentke currently plays as number 3 in the TSG regional league team, accept an early goal. After a corner ball came a little distance from a short distance to the header, yet the powerful, but not just placed ball did not seem completely untenable. Otherwise, the 20-year-old got little to do and was awarded after an hour after an opportunity of the best Letten, Daniels Ontuzan of the SC Freiburg.

Marco John also celebrated his premiere in the U 21. Hoffenheim equity has thus traversed all the youngest teams of the DFB. At the TSG, John was used for the professionals as left-back, in the U 21 on his ancestral position as an offensive midfielder on the left.

Last but not least, the opponent was still a Hoffenheimer in the starting eleven. The only 18-year-old midfielder Roland's Bocs is active in the U 19 of the TSG.