{"id":568823,"date":"2025-11-14T01:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568823\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:37:13","slug":"leon-goretzka-second-oldest-player-in-germany-squad-has-become-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568823\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Goretzka, second oldest player in Germany squad, has become leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How did this happen? Leon Goretzka likely still remembers his young, rambunctious days at VfL Bochum or his progression into a bright young talent at Schalke 04, struggling to find his spot in the Germany starting XI. But now he has become the veteran. He is one of the longest serving Bayern Munich players and, after the most recent international squad was released, it turns out the same is the case for the German national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m now the second oldest player, I\u2019ve had to realize that with some shock,\u201d Goretzka admitted in a recent interview with Sport.de, as captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1988633491454488682?s=20\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve experienced a few things in my career. I want to help bring the many young players on board, pass something on to them, and lead by example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One does not stay young forever. The important thing to do is to mature with time and adapt one\u2019s role to their age. It seems Goretzka is having no trouble doing that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How did this happen? Leon Goretzka likely still remembers his young, rambunctious days at VfL Bochum or his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,129072,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-568823","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\/115545495509475022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568823","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=568823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}