Mario Gomez in the national team – The Man from the Klose-gap – Süddeutsche.de

• Mario Gomez will return the goalscoring the national team.
• As Lukas Podolski he has after his transfer to Turkey again chances to Euro 2016.

There were days when Mario Gomez would not have been surprised about the mischievous question whether the space “DFB-Team: Hair & amp; styling” was the team hotel at Munich Tucherpark specially set up for him. Instead, he is now addressed to the remark made by the national coach, the national team lacked last the deadly striker, and the question is: “Are you deadly” Gomez smiles, cameras clicking. He likes the word “fatal” not true, he explains, “but on good days I am determined it”.

That’s why it is 14 months after his time last international game back in the circle of the national team, which in Munich on the warm-up match on Friday against France in Paris (21 clock, ARD) prepared: Because the ‘ Team “has last discloses forward problems. And because Gomez has its own solved with the change from Florence to Besiktas Istanbul. He scored there in twelve games and even get a visit from the national coach nine goals. Loew said later of very good body language, fitness and self-confidence: “He dares very much.” In the square, mind you.

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During his first comeback appearance in the DFB tracksuit he fremdelt a little, there is a sampling in the old environment. He nervously playing with the lid of a water bottle, as he argued that in a squad of 23 men but also belong to a classic center forward, “the front drinsteht because, when things are not going so”. He speaks of “the gap that Miroslav Klose has left there,” and stated that he had himself and his position often “not valued properly” felt.

Gomez looks like someone who has pondered much. As a counterpoint Lukas Podolski sitting beside him. The two 30-year-olds want to know, they hope for the Euro 2016 in France again. They have a similar story to tell: Podolski is not coped with Inter Milan, Gomez failed at Fiorentina, from Italy both changed in the late summer to Istanbul. Podolski to Galatasaray, Besiktas to Gomez, and now they should therefore report from the Turkish football.

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Podolski says: “Great City Great club great fans Great stadium….” He says the typical Podolski staccato, concise could no tourism managers bring to the point

Gomez says. Nothing about the city, club, supporters, performance venue. He understands that you Istanbul does not have to explain to the navel of the football world, “there are stronger leagues,” he says, but that was not him so in his decision, “which was not easy because I knew that they sit got to”. She sits. So good that he is back in demand, also in the DFB team.

“Poldi, the voice God”

“I did not have much fun,” Gomez says, looking back on his time in Florent, he was often violated and rarely fit, hardly came into use, and certainly not about hits. “The last two years were not good,” he admits, and that’s why he has moved to Besiktas: Because he can play there, every three days a match, “I’m back in rhythm, I have power, it was the right decision “.

She had nothing to do with folklore. The rivalries of the Istanbul clubs are not his subject. In speaking of Derby expert Podolski, the have shaped the Rhineland derby against Leverkusen and Gladbach since his early days in Cologne.