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The long-standing football coach Joachim Loew will also meet on old and already assigned professionals from the national team when adopted on November 11th.

This said the former World Champion Benedikt Höwedes in an interview on the DFB homepage. Part of the national team family comes together. Players, coaches, caregivers who have accompanied him over the years and meant a lot that has become a world champion together. Lukas Podolski, for example, by Mertesacker, Sami Khedira, to name only three Höwedes said. The players should then be trellis for Löw.

The game on 11 November (20:45 clock) against Liechtenstein in Wolfsburg is to be used for Löw and the longtime Bundestorwartstrainer Andreas Köpke to be adopted. The duo worked for 17 years for the German Football Association. The common highlight was the World Cup title win 2014 in Brazil. Löw had replaced after the home World Cup 2006 Jürgen Klinsmann as a national coach. Previously, he was Klinsmann s assistant for two years.

The 33-year-old Höwedes is at the DFB to the World Cup 2022 in Qatar a kind of trainee of Director Oliver Bierhoff. About his former coach Löw expressed himself praising: Our relationship was shaped by reliability, loyalty and high appreciation. He wishes a full stadium and a worthy backdrop for one of the most successful national coach we have ever had.