Shortly before Christmas, in just over two months, Mats Hummels will be 35. An age at which, as a professional footballer, you can only help yourself with two weapons: more training – and more humor. It is not yet clear whether Julian Nagelsmann attaches particular importance to humor. But the way in which the new national coach, himself just a year and a half older than Hummels, moderates the national team comeback of his future oldest player, suggests that he is not only calling Hummels, who is from Dortmund by choice, back to the national team because of his kicking qualities . But because of his intellectuality.
Mats Hummels – appointed by Nagelsmann at the age of almost 35 – Sport
