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On Thursday, Germany national team head coach Julian Nagelsmann named his squad for the upcoming UEFA Nations League quarter-final against four-time World Cup winners and two-time European champions Italy. There is one new face and eight returning players in the 23-man squad for the two-legged tie in Milan and Dortmund.

The latest player to be handed a first call-up by Nagelsmann is former Germany U21 international Yann Aurel Bisseck from Serie A title-holders Inter Milan, making the San Siro very familiar territory for the centre-back when Germany play the first leg there next Thursday. There are also returns to the squad for Karim Adeyemi (Borussia Dortmund), Leon Goretzka (Bayern München), David Raum (RB Leipzig), Jamie Leweling, Deniz Undav, Angelo Stiller (all VfB Stuttgart), Jonathan Burkardt and Nadiem Amiri (both 1. FSV Mainz 05).

Nagelsmann: “The quarter-final is of huge importance”

Amiri, a 2017 European U21 champion, won the most recent of his five senior caps in November 2020 in a 1-0 win over Czech Republic in Leipzig. He also went to the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Nagelsmann said: “Despite having to deal with a number of absences, I feel we have put together a very strong squad. We have chosen these players with full conviction and have tried to replace the quality we’ve lost with quality, with players who are fired up to play these games. The quarter-final against Italy is of huge importance to us. We want and have to get a good result from these two games.”

Sell-out crowd in Dortmund

The DFB-Team will meet up in Dortmund this coming Monday. The first leg of the Nations League quarter-finals takes place on Thursday, 20th March in Milan (20:45 CET). The return fixture is on Sunday, 23rd March at a sold-out Signal Iduna Park (20:45 CET).

Should Germany come out on top against Italy in the quarters, the DFB will become hosts of the UEFA Nations League Final Four, with Munich and Stuttgart the designated venues. The semi-final games will take place on 4th and 5th June, with a third-place play-off and the final set for 8th June.