{"id":574700,"date":"2025-11-16T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574700\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:30:19","slug":"nagelsmann-explains-decision-to-send-said-el-mala-to-germany-u21s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574700\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagelsmann explains decision to send Said El Mala to Germany U21s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, it was announced that 1. FC <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/koeln-151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K\u00f6ln<\/a> youngster Said El Mala had left the senior German national team camp to join the U21s ahead of their match against Georgia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/germany-96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany<\/a> coach Julian Nagelsmann underlined that El Mala\u2019s performances in training were not the reason for the change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made a good impression. I have very close communication with [Germany U21 coach] Toni Di Salvo. He is happy for his players when they can showcase themselves with the senior national team. But for his mission, it\u2019s not ideal,\u201d Nagelsmann said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that, at 19, there are naturally still areas where El Mala can develop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaid did well. You always have to put things into perspective, because it was his first time with us and he didn\u2019t have much training time here. He is humble and cheeky enough at the same time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He needs to become a regular starter in <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/koeln-151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K\u00f6ln<\/a> and have the ambition to address the areas for improvement that his club coach and I have pointed out. Then he will also have the opportunity to make an impact with the national team,\u201d Nagelsmann concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, it was announced that 1. FC K\u00f6ln youngster Said El Mala had left the senior German&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-574700","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\/115561039338645979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574700","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=574700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}