National football team: Alberei and Antipasti: Magic of San Siro as a title spunke

The national players enjoyed antipasti with the Nobel Italian, the national coach Alberte with star guest Niclas Füllkrug on the training ground. Julian Nagelsmann has not passed the good mood despite the major personnel problems around the injured Florian Wirtz and Kai Havertz and the acute lack of time in front of the explosive double cracker against the Squadra Azzurra.

The ambitious national coach demanded that the national team should go to the co-duelle of the Nations League against Italy “brave”, but deliberately avoided a “title”. “We don’t want to tact. In general, we go in so that we want to win both games,” he added after arriving in Milan before the quarter-final first leg on Thursday (8:45 p.m./ARD).

The huge history of the duel between the two four-time world champions or not: Nagelsmann wants to continue the legendary German-Italian football history with its very personal chapter of success. “I hope that we write our own stories and less to consume that there have been great duels in the past,” he said.

Only the win of the Nations League this summer, then the World Cup triumph as a crowning glory in America: This is of course Nagelsmann’s goal – even without explicit announcement. And defense chief Antonio Rüdiger described the lust of victory as follows: “We all licked blood. Title is title!”

There can hardly be a better place than the Giuseppe-Mazza Stadium for German football dreams. The national coach warned of a nostalgia trap. He cannot escape the magic of San Siro either.

In 1990 in the Milan Beton block in five games, including the legendary 2-1 in the round of 16 against the Netherlands with Rudi Völler as the main actor, the foundation for the later World Cup victory. “Of course they were wonderful games,” recalled the DFB sports director of the magical Italian football summer.

In 2001 FC Bayern won the Champions League Cup in Milan. “Today is a good day to write history,” was emblazoned on a Munich fan transparent. This motto could also lead Nagelsmann’s motivational speech.

“I know that many changing encyclopedia of football are. I actually do little to deal with the past. I prefer to try to influence the topicality,” said the national coach. Nagelsmann always lives in the here and now. In today.

“There are two games that we have to and want to make absolutely positive,” he summarized the weekly schedule including the second leg on Sunday (8:45 p.m./RTL) in Dortmund. The style has been the same since the unfortunate EM-out against Spain. Title competence must be purchased in the tournament.

Victories for the World Cup self-confidence

“In addition, I have already emphasized several times that it is about the further development of a good self -image. When you see Spain when you see Argentina how many games they won in front of their big titles, it is an important factor,” argued the national coach.

The current tasks are great. Not only Wirtz and Havertz fail. Aleksandar Pavlovic and Benjamin Henrichs are also missing. In addition, goalkeeper Marc-André Ter Stegen and Torgarr Füllkrug for several months. Nagelsmann admitted that he had to make “compromises” when compilation.

For him, that meant to appoint players who are not up to date in their clubs, in terms of performance and with their operating times. In particular, he called Robert Andrich von Bayer Leverkusen or Stuttgart Deniz Undav. An exception should be towards the World Cup. Nagelsmann now made it clear.

“The players also know that with a 30 percent playing time in the club, they most likely not be a player for the national team, because then the whole simple number of games is far too little to be able to play a good World Cup qualifier and a good World Cup,” said Nagelsmann.

In the goal, the “Millimeter decision” (Nagelsmann) for Oliver Baumann fell as number one and deputy for Ter Stegen. Alexander Nübel has to go to the bench. Returner Leon Goretzka, thanks to the dazzling form in the defensive midfield center at the comeback, could go back to the starting eleven after 16 months. As a next man for Pascal Groß or Angelo Stiller.

Musiala especially in focus

The situation on the offensive is serious. Jamal Musiala is the last remaining whirlwind from the EM formation. Against Italy, the young star of FC Bayern is waiting for a special responsibility – and a matriculation examination. “I don’t give him responsibility and pressure more than usual,” Nagelsmann put into perspective: “Jamal should play what he enjoys.” The Gladbacher Tim Kleindienst, who was successfully tried and tested in autumn, can probably be done at the forefront.

Musialas Bayern colleague Leroy Sané should also get a starting place, despite all the fluctuations in shape and motivation. The Mainz Jonathan Burkardt and Nadiem Amiri as well as Stuttgarts Jamie Leweling described Nagelsmann themselves as energy options for a joker use.

Sané. The name immediately leads back to the German-Italian football Almanach. In 2022, the Munich hit in San Siro at the 2-0 of FC Bayern in the Champions League near Inter Milan. The Bayern coach at the time: Nagelsmann. So he also knows the taste of a victory in San Siro.

Century game and penalty drama

The nostalgic enthusiasm of 1990 world champion Völler for the legendary rivalry with the Squadra Azzurra does not want to share. But the 37-year-old knows exactly what the duels mean for German football fans.

The century game in the World Cup semi-final 1970 (3: 4 NV), the World Cup final defeat 1982 (1: 3), the prevented happy ending of the summer fairy tale in the World Cup semi-finals 2006 (0: 2) in the current return on Dortmund. But in 2016 there was also a dramatic round of round of 16 of the DFB team in the penalty shootout.

Nagelsmann is welcome every support. Also from Völler. “Of course I am also close to Rudi, a former Roman folk hero who is also looking forward to the games.