{"id":414461,"date":"2025-09-11T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414461\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:27:09","slug":"bayern-munich-goalkeeper-manuel-neuer-rules-out-return-to-german-national-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414461\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer rules out return to German national football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The German national football team has had it tough with its goalkeeper. Die Mannschaft saw the retirement of Manuel Neuer and the injury of Marc-Andre ter Stegen, their two main goalkeepers, which prompted Oliver Baumann to stand in as the experienced deputy. Rumors started swirling that Neuer might make a sensational comeback to the national team, but he has refuted those claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dFirst of all, I wasn\u2019t asked [to come back],\u201d Neuer said (SID as captured by Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1964350840623231437\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cIt was a conscious decision of mine to no longer be part of the national team and to retire from international football. So that\u2019s not even an option for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 39-year-old also believes that what he has achieved during his stint with Germany was enough for him: \u201cI had a very successful and enjoyable time, and I\u2019m not thinking at all about whether or how Manuel Neuer [sic] might return to the national team. The EUROs at home was a nice ending. I think I\u2019ve gained a lot from German football and maybe also given a little something to German football.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German national football team has had it tough with its goalkeeper. Die Mannschaft saw the retirement of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,129072,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-414461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-german-national-team-and-international-soccer","11":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115182832554393931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}