Third resign in the national team after the World Cup title: After Philipp Lahm and Miroslav Klose and defender Per Mertesacker ended his career in the DFB team. His new goal: be master in England with Arsenal
Per Mertesacker resigns from the German national team.. That explains the 29-year-old defender of Arsenal FC in the interview the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. “First and foremost it was for me to do so, after ten years to determine the national team the end of this chapter itself,” Mertesacker justified the decision he took about a month after winning the world title. After Philipp Lahm and Miroslav Klose Mertesacker is the third player from the World Cup winning squad, who announced his resignation.
“Personal experience, his game intelligence, his positional play, especially his character and his attitude will be missed,” was Germany coach Joachim Loew on Friday evening quoted on the website of the DFB. President Wolfgang Niersbach praised the 29-year-old as “the prototype of the team player and a role model on and off the court”
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Mertesacker, who played 103 games for the selection of the DFB, scoring four goals would like to focus in future entirely to the English Premier League: “I want to be with the Arsenal manager, may also in the Champions League attack, “he says. The tournament in Brazil was a “golden conclusion” of his career in the national team. “Young players will meet. We must not be afraid and worry., We are so well cast as never before.”
Also includes a comeback later in the emergency Mertesacker from. “An international retirement will not exist,” he says in an interview with ZDF, which will be broadcast on Saturday. He took a vote the decision with his family. “It was always important that I stop a successful time, and this is given by winning the world championship,” he explains. “We have moved as a team great.”
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Mertesacker had lost his place due to a system change made by coach Joachim Loew in Brazil after the second round. In the final he was the one: loaded 0 victory in Rio de Janeiro against Argentina, in total he got in six of the seven World Cup games on the grass
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