Polzin without eight: these HSV players go on international duty | OneFootball

After the relieving first win of the season, HSV can finally catch its breath for a moment. A three-week international break now awaits.

Merlin Polzin would actually have liked to use the time to keep working with his newly assembled team on routines and the necessary fine-tuning. Instead, however, the HSV coach will have to do without as many as eight first-team players in the coming days.

Goalkeeper Sander Tangvik and left-back David Møller Wolfe were called up by Norway and will face, among others, Portugal in the Nations League, including superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. There will also be a direct HSV showdown with Albert Grønbaek, who has been selected for Denmark.

Zakaria El Ouahdi and Patson Daka are on the move as well. While the Moroccan right-back is in action in Africa Cup qualifying, national hero Daka will represent Zambia. Center-back Warmed Omari has once again been included in the Comoros squad. Two young Hamburg talents will also get the chance to prove themselves: Otto Stange has been named in the Germany U20 squad for the first time. Rising star Louis Lemke is traveling with the U19s to the five-nation tournament in Spain.

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HSV is “proud” of its internationals

For Polzin, the situation is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, he is without important players at a stage when the team, after its difficult start to the season, could really use every training session together. On the other hand, his pride in the club’s development outweighs that concern.

Polzin also sees the fact that eight HSV professionals are now heading off on international duty as a sign of the squad’s growing quality. “We’re also proud that HSV once again has numerous internationals. At one point, there were only two or three. Now it’s a significantly larger number.”

In fact, the club could easily have lost even more players. Miro Muheim (Switzerland), Terem Moffi (Nigeria), and Yussuf Poulsen (Denmark) will remain at the Volkspark, having all struggled with physical issues from time to time in the recent past. Other candidates, meanwhile, missed out on selection. As expected, Nicolai Remberg (Germany), Bilal Nadir (Morocco), and Nicolas Capaldo (Argentina) were not called up.

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