{"id":907009,"date":"2026-09-23T20:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907009\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:36:11","slug":"lothar-matthaus-drafts-his-germany-starting-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907009\/","title":{"rendered":"Lothar Matth\u00e4us drafts his Germany starting XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Bayern Munich star Lothar Matth\u00e4us has his say on pretty much everything that goes down in German football, both on the club and country level. This time around, he has his say on what Germany\u2019s starting XI should look like against Netherlands for their UEFA Nation\u2019s League match on the 24th of September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Matth\u00e4us\u2019 XI has mostly familiar names, and shakes it up just a little from the Julian Nagelsmann era. One notable addition is Josha Vagnoman, current player for VfB Stuttgart, who has only 2 caps at the international level under Hansi Flick. Both appearances were in a friendly game. The pundit also wants to put Marc-Andre ter Stegen between the sticks, maybe giving the more experienced keeper the opportunity over Alexander N\u00fcbel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Klopp came up with two separate squads for Germany, one for each upcoming international break, and they include many names that have yet to appear in German colors. Matth\u00e4us wants to have big names on the pitch, but also some of those breakout talents like Kevin Schade, Felix Nmecha, and Nathaniel Brown. The Netherlands game will be Klopp\u2019s first test of compatibility, and an opportunity to see how his new vision for Germany plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Bayern Munich star Lothar Matth\u00e4us has his say on pretty much everything that goes down in German&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,66350,561,82],"class_list":["post-907009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-german-national-team-and-international-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}