👴 Oldies v Ecuador: Germany this old for the first time in ages | OneFootball

Compared to the match against Ivory Coast, Julian Nagelsmann has made two changes to his starting lineup for the clash with Ecuador.

David Raum and Antonio Rüdiger come into the starting eleven in place of the injured Nathaniel Brown and the sidelined Nico Schlotterbeck.

These changes significantly raise the average age of the DFB team in one go. More specifically, today’s German starters have an average age of 28 years and 242 days.

For comparison: it has been a long time since the DFB fielded such an old team in a World Cup match. A full 30 years have passed since an even older eleven started in the quarterfinals of the 1998 World Cup.

In the embarrassing 0-3 defeat to Croatia, the reigning European champions at the time went with a side that had an average age of no less than 30 years and 170 days. 

So today’s team is still some way off that mark. Even so, it can hardly be called a young team...

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