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Germany's national football team coach Rudi Voller has announced the final list of 23 players who will represent their country in the European Championship in Portugal.
Earlier, the coach had announced a preliminary list of 22 players, but after Paul Freier suffered an injury, Voller had to add two players. As he had promised before, the two players added were members of Germany's youth (up to 21 years old) team: Bastian Schweinsteiger from Bayern and Lucas Podolski from Koln.
Perhaps the decision that surprised football experts the most was Voller's choice to take Hannover 96 striker Thomas Brdarič to the European Championship, who had only played once for the national team and did not help Germany in the qualifying tournament, while Oliver Neuville was not included in the list.
Germany's team composition:
Goalkeepers
Oliver Kahn (Bayern Munich)
Jens Lehmann (Arsenal)
Timo Hildebrand (VfB Stuttgart)
Defenders
Frank Baumann (Werder Bremen)
Arne Friedrich (Hertha Berlin)
Andreas Hinkel (VfB Stuttgart)
Philipp Lahm (VfB Stuttgart)
Jens Nowotny (Bayer Leverkusen)
Christian Wörns (Borussia Dortmund)
Christian Rahn (SV Hamburg)
Midfielders
Michael Ballack (Bayern Munich)
Fabian Ernst (Werder Bremen)
Torsten Frings (Borussia Dortmund)
Dietmar Hamann (Liverpool)
Jens Jeremies (Bayern Munich)
Sebastian Kehl (Borussia Dortmund)
Lucas Podolski (FC Cologne)
Bernd Schneider (Bayer Leverkusen)
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich)
Forwards
Fredi Bobic (Hertha Berlin)
Thomas Bradric (Hanover 96)
Kevin Kuranyi (VfB Stuttgart)
Miroslav Klose (FC Kaiserslautern)
Lucas Podolski (FC Cologne)
