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Three Germany U21 internationals nominated to represent Germany at the highest youth level this month<\/a> have departed camp injured. A fourth player\u2019s participation is in doubt. Thus far, Germany U21 head coach Antonio Di Salvo has nominated two replacements for the two forthcoming 2027 UEFA U21 European Qualification fixtures.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brighton\u2019s Brajan Gruda (knee problems), Union Berlin\u2019s Aljoscha Kemlein (contusion), and Hertha BSC\u2019s Linus Gechter (undisclosed) will not be available for Di Salvo. Eintracht Frankfurt fullback Elias Baum and Dynamo Dresden centre-back\/defensive midfielder Kofi Amoako have been called up to replace Kemlein and Gechter.\u00a0<\/p>\n The DFB has issued a statement declaring that there shall be no planned replacement for Gruda. Di Salvo may still have to call up another defender, however, as Baum\u2019s Eintracht teammate Nnamdi Collins \u2013 like Newcastle\u2019s Nick Woltemade<\/a> \u2013 is struggling with a flu-like infection and has not yet reported to camp.<\/p>\n Collins hopes to redeem his national team prospects after a disastrous outing for Julian Nagelsmann\u2019s senior side back in September.<\/a> Kemlein and Gruda featured prominently under Di Salvo in September.<\/a> Di Salvo has confirmed that rising Bayern talent Tom Bischof<\/a> will take Kemlein\u2019s place.<\/p>\n With respect to the goalkeeping question, Di Salvo has opted to lay to rest speculation about who will replace his newly installed (and promptly injured) No. 1 Mio Backhaus.<\/a> Dennis Seimen \u2013 Alexander N\u00fcbel\u2019s presumed replacement at Stuttgart<\/a> \u2013 will stand in goal in Backhaus\u2019 absence.<\/p>\n \u201cHe [Seimen] has the edge because he\u2019s performed very well,\u201d Di Salvo said at a Monday DFB media roundtable. \u201cHe [Bischof] will be pulling the strings for us in midfield.\u201c<\/p>\n GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 Three Germany U21 internationals nominated to represent Germany at the highest youth level this month have departed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-481300","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-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115335105432747257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481300","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=481300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}