No contact with Klopp yet: HSV stay relaxed | OneFootball

The dry spell is remarkable: since 2014, no HSV professional has made the leap into the German senior national team. With the exception of SC Paderborn, no active Bundesliga club has been waiting longer.

At the moment, Nicolai Remberg is probably the only realistic candidate for a call-up. The captain had already occasionally been linked with the DFB team last season and was also considered a possible option under Jürgen Klopp for the planned rebuild. However, Remberg had a comparatively weak start to the season and ultimately did not make the 44-man squad for the Nations League clashes against the Netherlands, Greece, and Serbia.

The bitter realization: the HSV pro was probably never really close to a call-up. Mopo reported a few days ago that there had so far been no contact between the DFB and the Rothosen coaching staff.

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For Merlin Polzin, that apparently is not a problem. An exchange with Klopp will happen “when Jürgen feels it is right,” the 35-year-old explained on Tuesday. At the same time, he drew a positive conclusion from the first weeks of his colleague as national team coach: “Basically, we are all happy that the things he and his coaching staff are setting in motion are positive in nature.”

HSV not focused only on Germany when it comes to internationals

Even so, it is likely also in Polzin’s interest that, after twelve years, a Hamburg player finally takes the field again for the German senior national team. In the long term, that could apply, for example, to talents Otto Stange and Louis Lemke. Both homegrown HSV players are highly gifted and key figures in the DFB’s junior teams. First, however, the two teenagers still need to establish themselves in the Bundesliga.

“For us, it is important not to look too far into the future, but to stay in the here and now, work hard, and try to put things into practice. That is what we do with all our players,” Polzin says. In general, it is “less important to me whether that is for Germany. Wherever the boys come from, they should represent their country in the best possible way.” In the current international break, no fewer than nine HSV professionals are doing exactly that.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.