The door back to the national team seemed already closed for Mario Götze, but now she has opened a gap again for Joachim Löw. “We don’t lose sight of him either, clearly,” the federal coach said in an interview with the “sports buzzer”. He had “kept in touch” with the Rio de Janeiro World Cup hero in recent weeks, said Löw and enthused: “He looks very fresh and very agile,
the joy is noticeable to him.” Götze is no longer in the limelight with his replacement free move from Borussia Dortmund to PSV Eindhoven in the summer, but his chances of a comeback in the DFB team after three years have noticeably increased. “From my point of view, he made the right decision for himself,” said Löw about the 2014 World Champion, “namely to venture a fresh start outside the Bundesliga presentation plate.”
Unlike club colleague Philipp Max, Götze has not yet made it to the squad for the international game on Wednesday (8.45 p.m./RTL) in Leipzig against the Czech Republic and the subsequent nation league games in the trade fair city against Ukraine (14 November) and in Seville
against Spain (17 November). But the offensive player has not given up hope of a 64th and more international matches as well as the EURO next summer. According to Löw’s latest statements, that is far from it. God’s hunger “grew even bigger”
“The European Championship is a big dream for me, especially because I was not at the last World Cup tournament 2018 for the first time. My hunger for titles has grown even bigger in the meantime,” said the 28-year-old of the “picture.” And DFB Director Oliver Bierhoff reiterated: “If he is in good form, Mario Götze always has a chance to get back into the national team.”
