The personal sores at the DFB selection are great. Injuries, corona and illness make the coaching team around Di Salvo from problems and some uncertainties. The 42-year-old spoke on Monday of “completely, very big and big question marks” in his original 25-man squad \ – who now accepts new forms again. With Marton Dardai (Hertha BSC), Shinta Appelkamp (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Faride Alidou (Hamburger SV) and Vincent Müller (PSV Eindhoven) a quartet was postponated.

Luca Philipp From the TSG Hoffenheim had to stop the course meanwhile, as the Sinsheimer announced. The goalkeeper of the Kraichgauer, where it came to a Corona outbreak on the weekend and therefore had to dispense with the power carriers IHLAS Bebou, Florian Grillitsch and Pavel Kaderabek in Berlin, is now available in domestic Isloation.

Meanwhile, with Armel Bella Kotchap and Patrick Osterhage (both VFL Bochum), two more U-21 players according to DFB information are due to disease. Also Malick Thiaw (Schalke 04) and Reda Khadra (Blackburn Rovers) are not an option because of injury.

It also remains open whether the attacked Kevin Schade (Sc Freiburg), Angelo Stiller (TSG Hoffenheim), Frederik Jäkel (KV Ostend), Malik Tillman (FC Bayern Munich), Luca Netz and Jordan Beyer (Both Borussia Mönchengladbach) are available. “The last days had already been extremely because quasi-minute calls came from players and clubs,” Di Salvo describes the difficult planning for the game on Friday in Aachen and next Tuesday in Petah Tikva.

From now on we are fully concentrated on the team and players who are there.

Antonio di Salvo

Above all, the journey to the important away game to Israel ensures great precautions in order to be able to contain any infections with the coronavirus as quickly as possible. Because already the entry conditions are strict. This means: Until then, routes and even the same seating arrangements are clearly regulated. There are also distance and mask rules to keep the risk as low as possible and to avoid further failures.

Despite all circumstances and planning, DI Salvo hopes for a successful country game phase. “We now have a few question marks. But now we are fully focused on the team and players who are there,” he emphasizes. “I said that too the team.”