{"id":656596,"date":"2026-05-21T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:50:14","slug":"2026-world-cup-germany-recall-manuel-neuer-40-as-first-choice-goalkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656596\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 World Cup: Germany recall Manuel Neuer, 40, as first-choice goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has come out of international retirement to be named in Germany&#8217;s squad for the 2026 World Cup, with manager Julian Nagelsmann saying the 40-year-old will be his team&#8217;s number one for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neuer, who has helped Bayern win the Bundesliga title and reach the Champions League semi-finals this season, won the last of his 124 caps for his country in a Euro 2024 quarter-final defeat by Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9qgy1y1elpo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He later announced<\/a> he was ending his international career, which included helping Germany win the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone knows the aura and quality Manu has, what he brings to a team,&#8221; said Nagelsmann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re planning with him as our number one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neuer has played in four World Cups and is the latest of a number of players aged 40 or over to be selected for this summer&#8217;s tournament, which will take place across Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, Croatia midfielder Luka Modric, 40, Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon, 43, and Bosnia-Herzegovina&#8217;s Edin Dzeko, 40, have also been named in the squads of their countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has come out of international retirement to be named in Germany&#8217;s squad for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-656596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}