THE GERMAN CONTINUES TO RECOVER FROM HIS INJURY
Nagelsmann gives Ter Stegen the first 'stick' for the 2024 Euro Cup
Published:17/12/2023 - 19:48h
Updated:17/12/2023 - 19:48h
While Ter Stegen continues his recovery process from his back injury, he faces a new threat in the competition for the starting position in the national team. His teammate Manuel Neuer, after overcoming a period of inactivity, has returned to the playing field and could challenge him for the starting position.
Ter Stegen Crosses a difficult moment with his injury in the back. The guardameta German saw forced to subject to a surgery due to the fact that his cautious recovery did not give the results expected. The intervention will keep it moved away of the terrains of game of 2 to 3 months. However, the nightmare does not finish here. Although it seemed that the archer blaugrana could exert an important paper with the selection in the Eurocopa of 2024, Manuel Neuer has returned to play after his long injury and positions like favourite for the place.
The guardameta Bavarian, after a fracture in the right leg that kept it was almost a year, has restarted the titularity with the Bayern in the Bundesliga and the Champions. This situation awards him advantage to be the goalkeeper title with Germany, leaving in second plane to the guardameta of the FC Barcelona.
In fact, listening the reflection of the own seleccionador German in statements with ZNF, already can know the intention that has from the combined international with both guardametas: "If all goes as we expect, Neuer will be headline". Besides, the guardameta Bavarian will have margin to go back to take the tone with the selection, since it will be able to play the friendly of preparation for the Euro'24 in front of France in Lyon (23 March) and the Low Countries in Frankfurt (26 March).
Once again, to the shadow of Neuer
The archer of the Barça never has had the opportunity to stand out in the selection, since his mate Manuel Neuer always has it eclipsado. In spite of having debuted 11 years ago with the German selection, the guardameta of the FC Barcelona only has been headline in an official tournament of lower importance, the Glass Confederations of the 2018, in which Germany carried the title.
In events more significant like the Eurocopa 2016, the World-wide of Russia 2018 or the one of Qatar 2022, Ter Stegen has occupied the role of acting. Had the hope to change this situation when subjecting to an operation in the back to resolve effectively the injury, aspiring to be headline so much in the Barça as in the German selection. However, it seems that his plans will not materialise as it expected.
