Joshua Kimmich is the new captain of the DFB team. He values clear and loud words – quite different from his predecessor İlkay Gündoğan.
They have moved back into their tiny houses on the outskirts of Herzogenaurach, surrounded by an opaque wooden shack. The settlement with the artificial name Home Ground was actually supposed to be a place of no return for the German national team, because the European Football Championship is history. But national coach Julian Nagelsmann wanted to return to Middle Franconia, the Germans’ base camp during the tournament. Nagelsmann wanted to return to that emotional world, to that mood that had carried his team to the quarter-finals of the tournament – and more than that: that had reconciled the country with the team.
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Source: Stern

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