No-one would have really expected a huge number of players to be in action in the first training session of the week on the facilities around the Weser Stadium. With Marko....
No-one would have really expected a huge number of players to be in action in the first training session of the week on the facilities around the Weser Stadium. With Marko....
No-one would have really expected a huge number of players to be in action in the first training session of the week on the facilities around the Weser Stadium. With Marko Marin, Per Mertesacker, Mesut Özil, Philipp Bargfrede, Petri Pasanen and Marcelo Moreno, a total of six men were away on duty with their relative national teams. To add to that number there were also the long-term absentees Markus Rosenberg (knee problem) and Daniel Jensn (Achilles injury) as well as Sebastian Prödl (knee problem), Hugo Almeida (tendon tear) and Tim Wiese (bruised calf).
German international Mesut Özil has also now temporarily joined the list of the wounded. On Tuesday afternoon, the German Football Federation (DFB) announced that the Werder midfielder was unable to participate in the national team’s endurance test due to bleeding in his knee. "We knew after the game in Berlin that he had a slight problem but we decided to wait and see how it went with the national team," explained head coach Thomas Schaaf. On Tuesday evening in Cologne, Mesut Özil will join his team mates Marko Marin and Sebastian Boenish to pick up a prize for their 'Under 21 European Championship' win. Defender Naldo also returned from the German capital carrying a knock. The Brazilian international has been suffering with some slight pain in his foot.
