German Fraulein National Team 2020 & beyond

U23 squad to face Spain...

Lina Altenburg - Eintracht Frankfurt
Laura-Johanna - TSG Hoffenheim
Maria Luisa Grohs - FC Bayern Munich

Dilara Acikgöz - Eintracht Frankfurt
Ilayda Acikgöz - Eintracht Frankfurt
Mara Alber - SV Werder Bremen
Paulina Bartz - Hamburger SV
Lisa Baum - RB Leipzig
Loreen Bender - Bayer Leverkusen
Luca Birkholz - SC Freiburg
Delice Boy - RB Leipzig
Vanessa Diehm - TSG Hoffenheim
Laura Gloning - TSG Hoffenheim
Estrella Merino Gonzalez - Bayer Leverkusen
Julia Landenberger - RB Leipzig
Sarah Mattner-Trembleau - SKN St. Pölten
Larissa Mühlhaus - SV Werder Bremen
Selina Ostermeier - Bayer Leverkusen
Katharina Piljic - Bayer Leverkusen
Marie Steiner - TSG Hoffenheim
Svea Stoldt - Hamburger SV
Sophie Weidauer - 1. FC Union Berlin
Sofie Zdebel - Bayer Leverkusen

 

U23 Reserves List...

Kiara Beck - VfB Stuttgart
Rebecca Adamczyk - SC Freiburg
Anneke Borbe - Arsenal FC
Rafaela Borggräfe - Bayer Leverkusen

Alina Axtmann - SC Freiburg
Annaleen Böhler - Hamburger SV
Meret Felde - SC Freiburg
Jasmin Janning - FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Nastassja Lein - 1. FC Nürnberg
Julia Mickenhagen - Bayer Leverkusen
Sophie Nightingale - SC Freiburg
Melina Reuter - FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Marleen Schimmer - RB Leipzig
Greta Stegemann - SC Freiburg
Nia Szenk - SC Freiburg
Selina Vobian - SC Freiburg

Glonning shouldn't be in the main squad. Mid-field or defense, Reuter, Vobain, Mickenhagen, Szenk, all better than Glonning (and D.Acikgöz), but continue to be ignored by these coaches...

Stegemann, Schimmer, Lein, Felde, all the older selections who had to be omitted this time around. I would honestly have liked to see Schimmer elevated to the main u23 squad though, knowing the current lack of strong candidates for the wide forward roles within the senior wnt.

Schimmer being quick, dynamic, with an explosive shooting ability, feels like a player who needs regular contact with a higher standard of play, to truly understand what she needs to do in order to reach a next level of her own potential.

 

U19 Squad for 2nd round Euro's qualification games...

Linna Hermsmeier - SKN St. Pölten
Janne Krumme - Eintracht Frankfurt
Nelly Smolarczyk - VfL Wolfsburg

Lany Mia Baker - SGS Essen
Helen Börner - FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Leni Marie Eggert - Hamburger SV
Marie Gmeineder - FC Bayern Munich
Leonie Köpp - SGS Essen
Mia-Lena Maas - SC Freiburg
Lenelotte Müller - VfB Stuttgart
Maria Penner - SV Werder Bremen
Laila Portella - FC Bayern Munich
Rosa Rückert - VfB Stuttgart
Zoe Schick - SC Freiburg
Maj Schneider - SC Freiburg
Felicia Sophie Sträßer - FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Lina Szaraz March - 1. FC Köln
Jonna Maj Wrede - Hamburger SV
Lotta Wrede - Hamburger SV
Lucy Zähringer - FC Bayern Munich
Tessa Zimmermann - Eintracht Frankfurt

 

Kassandra Potsi signed with Bayern, and disappeared from all things football...

If the u19's facing Ireland, Slovakia, France in the 2nd round, again... regardless of genuine talent for the future existing within this generation, expectations should still remain very very low.

 

Other nations are integrating new talent into their senior teams, Germany still out here pretending Freigang will ome day magically turn into a credible international level talent...

Senß - Nüsken - Dallmann, can help Germany qualify for a WC... but in no way does this trio represent the quality necessary to win a WC...

 

Kader des Frauen-Nationalteams
TOR: EL SHERIF Mariella (SV Werder Bremen/GER/6), PAL Jasmin (FK Austria Wien/6/), RUSEK Larissa (Juventus Turin/ITA/0)

ABWEHR: D‘ANGELO Chiara (SV Werder Bremen/8/0), DEGEN Celina (1. FC Köln/GER/23/3), GUTMANN Sarah (SV Werder Bremen/1/0), HANSHAW Verena (West Ham/ENG/127/10), KIRCHBERGER Virginia (FK Austria Wien/121/5), SCHIECHTL Katharina (FK Austria Wien/76/10), SCHÖFFEL Louise (FK Austria Wien/0/0), WENGER Claudia (Bayer 04 Leverkusen/13/0), WIENROITHER Laura (Manchester City/ENG/45/2)

MITTELFELD: DUNST Barbara (FC Bayern München/91/13), KOLB Lisa (SC Freiburg/GER/25/2), OJUKWU Nicole (FC Freiburg/GER/1/0), PLATTNER Maria (FC Bayern München II/GER/18/5), PUNTIGAM Sarah (Houston Dash/USA/163/25), REISSNER Naika (1. FC Union Berlin/GER/1/0), SCHASCHING Annabel (RB Leipzig/GER/34/3)

ANGRIFF: BRUNOLD Carina (SKN St. Pölten/10/0), BRUNNTHALER Melanie (Hamburger SV/GER/7/0), CAMPBELL Eileen (Union Berlin/GER/28/9), HICKELSBERGER Julia (Galatasaray Istanbul/TUR/49/9)

Auf Abruf:

BILLA Nicole (VFB Stuttgart/GER/107/47), GEORGIEVA Marina (1. FC Union Berlin/GER/48/0), HAIDNER Larissa (Hamburger SV/GER/0/0), KLEIN Jennifer (SKN St. Pölten/21/2), KRESCHE Isabella (Tampa Bay Sun/USA/6), LEITNER Annelie (DUX Logrono/ESP/0/0), MÄDL Valentina (Bayer 04 Leverkusen/GER/0/0), MAGERL Julia (RB Leipzig/GER/4/1), PFANNER Patricia (First Vienna FC 1894/0/0), PINTHER Viktoria (FC Como/ITA/53/2), RUKAVINA Magdalena (SKN St. Pölten/1/0), SARAC Ines (First Vienna FC 1894/0/0), SCHIRMBRAND Sophia (FC Red Bull Salzburg/0/0), SCHÖNWETTER Christina (VfL Wolfsburg/GER/0), SPINN Laura (FC Red Bull Salzburg/0/0), SPINN Greta (FC Red Bull Salzburg/0/0), WEISS Tatjana (FK Austria Wien/0/0), WIRNSBERGER Anna (SK Sturm Graz/0/0)

 

Mühlhaus replaces Zicai in the senior wnt, Natchtigall gets called into the u23's as the replacement for Mühlhaus.

Again, this just highlights the absolute non existent depth in the senior wnt's wide forward roles. So knowing more CM depth exists, I'd honestly prefer Dallmann just remain a wide player for the rest of her wnt career.

Zicai not senior international quality (yet), Bühl injured, it's just Endemann, and Brand who's left; making Dallmann a more than suitable candidate for a wide forward role.

Senß, Nüsken, all set to remain first choice until Oberdorf returns. But it should be obvious to the damn coaches why Freigang shouldn't be part of the senior anymore.

Mühlhaus being elevated back to the senior wnt a positive, as it should also help remove pressure to constantly fall back to placing a inconsistent veteran Dallmann in a CAM role.

The u23's still possessing a few options who should be allowed to start ahead of Mühlhaus. Bartz slowly resuscitating her career at HSV a name to test in CM again. But Steiner the one who's been proving to be a surpringly effective AM at club level.

Hopefully both will get to see a good proportion of match time for a u23's in need of quality mid-field replacements for Mühlhaus, Gräwe, Alara.

 

It's crazy Mahmoud has been injured this season. I feel she would have had a wide open path to becoming a regular member of the senior wnt.

Zicai elevated far too early, while Alber's career has been set back at least 2 years. Bender possesing all the talent, can't stay healthy long enough to put together a run of good form or productivity.

The u23 wide talent not progressing as hoped. It probably leaving Dallmann the only credible wide option, knowing the wnt coaches will never select Kössler as a wide option.

And whats going to be even more annoying, is watching Mahmoud return to first team football, just as options like Alber, Bender, finally begin to regain full momentum...

Either way, I hope there's a real plan to move beyond using Wamser or Cerci in the wide roles come WC time.

 

U19 Euro qualification 2nd round.

Republic of Ireland 0 : 3 (0:1) Germany
22' Lotta Wrede
62' Lany Mia Bäcker
71' Jonna Maj Wrede

 

At some point it will need to be explained why Behringer the only wnt coach within the whole program allowed to run their own separate system/style of play...

She's accomplished everything as a player, but as a coach, none of her teams display the quality of football, or the positive results, to justify her being allowed such a unique privilege.

3-5-2 making absolutely zero sense for a program who #1 lacks a lot of strong depth in traditional goal scoring forwards #2 has a limited depth of strong wingers #3 known to have a poor history with generating elite CB's.

Behringer's system applying huge pressure to young CB's, rendering good CM's useless, removing any real width, asking weak strikers to create for themselves lol.

Every other coach following the same script, uses a back 4, a variation of the 3 player mid-field, with a lone forward in attack.

Surely at some point Behringer's performance using her 3-5-2 will need to be assessed; as she's not showing any real signs of improvement unless she actually gets this system to qualify for a Euro finals, and then a WC...no?

 

In the case someone want's to know: Lotta and Jonna Maj both play for HSV but are not related.

 

.. who said they were related...?

 

Nobody but I expected that some people would think so.

 

OK...

 

So.. after the initial season watching the u23's, I feel it's become very evident the coach isn't going to be selecting the best possible starting 11's...

Steiner has been fantastic in a AM role this season. Baum showing signs of developing genuine end product as a wide forward. Diehm continues to provide league leading analytical data as a DM/Libero. So why aren't these players being used in these same roles for the u23's?

The only forwards that should be considered starters....
----------------- Birkholz/Weidauer -----------------
Alber/Schimmer ---------------- Baum/Bender

Mid-field options should be very simple to select...
AM: Steiner, Vobain, Fudalla
CM: Bartz, Piljic, Zdebel
DM: Deihm, Felde

Defenders even more simple to select...
FB: Mickenhagen, Szenk, Gonzalez, Mattner
CB: Ostemeier, Stoldt, Landenberger, Axtman

Overage players being Ostemeier, Schimmer, Weidauer, Felde, Vobain, and potentially Stegemann. This team really shouldn't be so convoluted to select... yet I'm here again watching the coach go out of his way to make games far more difficult than they should be...

 

Birkholz continues to validate my belief she's the best striker we've seen so far for the u23's. Stylistically she also looks to be better traditional #9 than Martinez ever looked like at this level of football...

Finding goals with limted amounts of service also a good sign for Birkholz, as she doesn't appear to be someone who needs a lot of touches to remian a threat; this a real hard to develop quality for elite forwards in this sport.

If the u23's actually supplied Birkholz with service, I wonder how she'd look with more early balls played behind defenses for her to get 1v1's against the last defender...

Baum NEEDS to recieve more starting minutes wide right. With Schimmer also another effective wide forward option who needs to be tested at the u23 level.

I can't understand why the u23 coach persists with playing Baum in a FB role, when she has 5 goals 1 assist this season... This better than Alber's 2 goals, and closer to Bender's 4 goals 4 asissts this season.

If the u23's brought in Schimmer (6 goals and 1 assist), it would make more sense to see both Leipzig wide forwards tested for a program in real need of depth in this particular position.

Alber still working her way back to her past form, I struggle to understand why Baum, or Schimmer can't be u23 level starters given their club form this season.

Schimmer --------- Birkholz ---------- Baum
Bender and Alber on the bench, is what we should have seen at least once with the u23's this season... but no... nothing lol.

 

Lany Mia Bäcker from Essen