Around 350 children from Ascona cheered Die Mannschaft on during their training session on Tuesday afternoon. The World Champions, who are preparing for EURO 2016 in Switzerland until Friday, invited youngsters from FC Ascona, the club whose facilities Joachim Löw side are using, and children from local primary schools to watch the first group workout since the final 23-man squad for the finals in France was announced.
Apart from Champions League winner Toni Kroos of Real Madrid, who will join up with the team this evening, and the injured Mats Hummels (pulled muscle), all 21 available players were on board. There were big cheers from the children, some of whom were accompanied by their parents, for one man in particular: Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger of Manchester United was back involved in team training for the first time since suffering a serious knee injury.
“We wanted to say thank you for the hospitality shown to us here by inviting Ascona’s children to watch the team train. With twelve days to go until the tournament starts, every moment counts, but we still strived to make sure we could train at least once with the youngsters from our host community in attendance,” said DFB general manager Oliver Bierhoff. “Due to limited capacity here at the training complex, we were unfortunately unable to hold a session open to the entire public.”
Around 350 children from Ascona cheered Die Mannschaft on during their training session on Tuesday afternoon. The World Champions, who are preparing for EURO 2016 in Switzerland until Friday, invited youngsters from FC Ascona, the club whose facilities Joachim Löw side are using, and children from local primary schools to watch the first group workout since the final 23-man squad for the finals in France was announced.
Apart from Champions League winner Toni Kroos of Real Madrid, who will join up with the team this evening, and the injured Mats Hummels (pulled muscle), all 21 available players were on board. There were big cheers from the children, some of whom were accompanied by their parents, for one man in particular: Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger of Manchester United was back involved in team training for the first time since suffering a serious knee injury.
“We wanted to say thank you for the hospitality shown to us here by inviting Ascona’s children to watch the team train. With twelve days to go until the tournament starts, every moment counts, but we still strived to make sure we could train at least once with the youngsters from our host community in attendance,” said DFB general manager Oliver Bierhoff. “Due to limited capacity here at the training complex, we were unfortunately unable to hold a session open to the entire public.”
