As of: March 14, 2024, 11:29 a.m
By: Jan Oeftger
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Julian Nagelsmann will probably nominate Aleksandar Pavlovic for the national team.
TV expert Sami Khedira is clearly against this decision.
Dortmund – Julian Nagelsmann will nominate his last squad before the home European Championship this Thursday (March 14th).
He has already announced some surprises and changes.
According to Bild
and
kicker,
one of them will
be Aleksandar Pavlovic.
However, not everyone is enthusiastic about this.
World champion Sami Khedira thinks the time for a nomination is too early.
World champion Khedira considers Pavlovic nomination to be a “political decision”
For several years, Khedira was a fixture in the defensive midfield of the German national team.
This includes, among other things, the strong 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the 2014 World Cup victory in Brazil.
National coach Nagelsmann is currently looking for the right fit for the central midfield.
A hot candidate is Bavaria's talent Pavlovic.
Especially since Pavlovic could also play for Serbia, the DFB would like to retain him with an early nomination.
However, Khedira is now
criticizing this at
DAZN .
“It is a political decision and I am not taking part in it.
I try to evaluate sports.”
For world champion Sami Khedira, Pavlovic’s nomination comes “too early”.
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For Khedira, Pavlovic’s appointment is “too early”
The world champion has a lot of praise for Pavlovic: “I know Aleks personally, I’ve been able to watch him for four weeks.
I had one or two personal conversations with him.
He is a wonderful boy.
A boy who is very inquisitive and who has a great career ahead of him.” Nevertheless, DAZN
TV expert Khedira positions himself
clearly: “For me personally, the nomination after ten or twelve Bundesliga games is too early.”
Khedira still misses the 19-year-old's consistency in top games: “He's on the right track, he absolutely deserves it.
I am always in favor of the performance principle over a longer period of time.
Yes, Aleks played great against Lazio, but he was a bit lacking against Leverkusen.
I believe that Aleks can become a national player in the long term, but at the moment it is a bit too early.”
(jo)