Overview
- Julian Nagelsmann opened camp in Herzogenaurach with all 23 call‑ups available, kept his World Cup ambition explicit, and restored Joshua Kimmich to the holding role as a new defensive structure is drilled for Slovakia and Northern Ireland.
- Debutant Nnamdi Collins is in line to fill the right‑back slot as Germany navigates qualifying without several injured regulars including Jamal Musiala, Marc‑André ter Stegen, Kai Havertz and Nico Schlotterbeck.
- Germany’s U21s begin their EM‑qualifying cycle without a fixed captain or a settled No. 1 in goal, with coach Antonio Di Salvo signaling a rotating armband and open competition among Mio Backhaus, Dennis Seimen and Max Weiß.
- The German Basketball Federation ruled Johannes Voigtmann out for the rest of EuroBasket, and German media report Rokas Jokubaitis suffered major knee‑ligament damage with a lengthy absence expected for Bayern.
- At Füchse Berlin, sporting director Stefan Kretzschmar said he will leave after the season following weeks of tension over contracts, drawing a public rebuke from CEO Bob Hanning and leaving coach Jaron Siewert’s outlook unclear, while German tennis confronts its thinnest US Open singles presence since 1983.