Mats Hummels, who was not nominated for the DFB team, played a decisive role in BVB’s victory in Munich – and not just because of a spectacular rescue act. He still hopes for the European Championships, but doesn’t yet know what will happen next year.
There was no need to worry about Mats Hummels’ condition during the last international break. Like nine other Dortmund players, all of whom have played for the national team, the defender was not nominated by national coach Julian Nagelsmann. In his unmistakable style, with a mixture of irony, rhetorical subtlety and an unmistakable sense of validity, he had on platform X uploaded a video from BVB training that showed him dynamic dribbling and captioned it with the words: “Editor’s note: Similarities to Lionel Messi or Jamal Musiala are purely coincidental.”