The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 international has suffered numerous injury lay-offs in the last campaign, therefore, the national team head coach has decided to leave the Bavarian giants star midfielder out.
Bayern Munich maestro http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bastian-Schweinsteiger-c7374 will not be a part of the Germany squad that will play in the opening 2014 World Cup qualification matches, following the revelation of the team list on Friday. The national side will
play Faroe Islands and Austria in qualifiers next week.
Die Mannschaft caretaker suggested that he rested the highly-rated attacker so that, in the meantime, he can reclaim his previous top form for the remainder of the season, both for club and country.
The experienced midfielder has been a regular in the national team for eight years. He has earned an impressive 95 caps and netted 23 times for Germany. The tactician said that he opted to omit the star midfielder as he was lacking
match fitness following a number of nibbling injuries last year.
Low further added that he discussed the problem at length with the 28-year-old and explained the whole scenario to the FC Hollywood attacker.
"I have spoken at length with Bastian," Low was quoted as saying in an interview.
The former assistant manager to Jurgen Klinsmann maintained that Schweinsteiger agreed with him over the fact that he needs to rest and return to top form, and that can be achieved by getting more game time at club level. Therefore,
the coach has targeted the October clashes with Ireland and Sweden for the versatile footballer.
"We have agreed that it takes a while to get back into the rhythm of playing again. Our plans are to have him back for both matches in October against Ireland and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sweden-c3015," the head coach finally concluded.
Germany will play http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Austria-c2844 on September 9 and will be looking forward to start the campaign in good spirits.
Mario Gomez and Schweinsteiger will be the only first team players that will be missing from the European Championships 2012 squad. Gomez will be replaced by the experienced http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Toni-Kroos-c35425 are good
substitutes for the injured playmaker.
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