DFB players visit Holocaust

With some players, the German football national team will visit the Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Friday.

This was announced by national trainer Martina Voss-Tecklenburg in a video press conference in front of the World Cup qualifier on Thursday (18:00 mesz) in Tel Aviv against Israel. The entire DFB delegation then visits Jerusalem, the return flight is planned for Saturday.

Voss-Tecklenburg had previously emphasized that the DFB selection would write to her social and social order . Because of the Corona rules on site, the visit must still be coordinated. Himself will travel to Yad Vashem: For us as Germans, it is simply a special place that makes you awake and sensitize you again, said the 53-year-old.

For the German women s team it is the first international game in Isreal. The men already occurred there in 1987 and 1997. In the past, delegations with DFB young steam also visited the memorial.

On Monday, the footballers received a lecture on Israel with his political, geographical, historical and linguistic peculiarities. We are pleased to travel to Isreal as ambassadors and explore this country a bit, said defense player Giulia Gwinn from FC Bayern. The second leg will take place next Tuesday (16:05 clock) in Essen.