UEFA Under-21 Championship Israel 2013 SPA-RUS 1-0 HOL-GER 3-2

[DirtyP2002]

weaveworld said:

DirtyP2002 said:

weaveworld said:

DirtyP2002 said:

Germans main U21 players are not playing. That makes it quite difficult.

Ter Stegen
Draxler
Schürrle
Götze
Thomas Müller
Gündogan

All of them are young enough to play there.

Still like U21 championships. Great opportunity to scout talents. There were rumors about Dortmung trying to sign Volland and they really should.

The bolded one played the Champions League final and the underlined one played this nonsense-friendly games with the A-team.

If you put it like that it's a shame both teams made the finals... My guess is they would have been available otherwise?

No, they are actually beyond the U21 level, they are playing for the A-team.
You can't play on a higher level than the Champions League final, so U21 would be a step backwards.

It is just that the meaning of the U21 championship is not as important as it would be.
You can't say that team X has a better generation coming up than team Y for example.