Emre Canmidfielder Germanyacknowledged this Sunday at a press conference that disappointed not being called for the first call-up of his team by his coach Julian Nagelsmannwhich, however, after the departure of Aleksandar Pavlocic due to tonsillitis, he did have the player from the Borussia Dortmund.
Can, finally, even participated for a few minutes in the successful premiere of Germany, that won 5-1 to Scotland with a goal, the last, the work of the German half. A couple of days after the German team’s clash, he analyzed his feelings after know that his absence in the citation of Nagelsmann and narrated how he received the news that he would finally contest the Euro Cup.
“I disappointed that Julian Nagelsmann won’t call me. I haven’t been here long, but I’m grateful. I’m not saying I want to be in the starting eleven on Wednesday, but my mindset has always been that of want to play, and that is why I have come here. I will do the best for the team”, he highlighted.
“On Wednesday I was in Dortmund with my women, We just wanted to have breakfast. So I received a call of Julian. I said yes immediately, he was willing. I did not nothing for ten days, but I was still ready immediately. Sincerely, I didn’t expect them to replace me on Friday. It’s a crazy story, and then so am I He scored a goal. That doesn’t happen that often. It is indescribable. My wife was very happy, even though his birthday was on Saturday. Actually we would be in Spain, but now things have been different. The support of my family and friends means the world to me. Without her I would be nothing“, said.
Asked if he feels like any of the players in the danish team who won the Euro Cup of 1992 and that they were on vacation when they found out that their team was going to replace Yugoslavia, he acknowledged that he did not know that story and said that ” It’s definitely similar.“.
“After lose the end of the Champions League, things were not easy in my head. So I didn’t think about football and that was good for me. I felt very good in the training and in the game. And yesterday I also felt good after a very hard session,” she noted.
“Was a very hard blow not winning the match against him real Madrid. We deserved it, but that’s football. I can’t say specifically how many days passed before I could smile again. “We all wanted this with all our might, but unfortunately it didn’t work,” he stated.
Emre Can stated that, after a career in the German national team that began in 2008 when he participated in the under-fourteen category and in which he was always present when he was fit, he always believed that I would return with Germany despite not counting for Nagelsmann since he took office to replace Hansi Flick.
“The match against Peru was in March 2023; then against Belgium, where I made two very good international appearances. I thought things were going well for me in the national team. I had many minutes. Then Julian arrived with other ideas. And I didn’t perform as well at Dortmund, where I played a better second half of the season. That was important to me. I have said it many times, I am very grateful to be here.”
He also spoke about the atmosphere in the German team and declared that there is “very good energy” after two weeks of marked concentration “for the good environment” among all the comrades of the ‘Mannschaft’: “The team always comes first Above all, this is how we want to live. In football it always has to be the case that you want to play. And when we don’t play, we are there for the team.”
Regarding the next match that Germany has to play against Hungary, he stated that “unfortunately“You can’t say much about the Magyar team because you didn’t see the match they played this Saturday against Switzerland.
“But Hungary is always a difficult opponent. Tonight we will have a meeting about it. If we go with the energy of the first game, it will be difficult to beat us. If we put our quality on the field, we can beat anyone”.
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