Germany: Butt in the 27.

Joachim Loew announced on Thursday a list of 27 players shortlisted for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The Germany coach has accepted the goalkeeper Bayern Hans-Jorg Butt named after the injury Rene Adler.


 Joachim Löw has named a total of seven players from Bayern Munich, the young Thomas Müller and Holger Badstuber, revelations of the season and in contention to achieve an unprecedented triple Cup / German Championship / Champions League, and goalkeeper Hans- Jörg Butt. The coach included Marcell Jansen, Back from injury, but did not convene as scheduled Torsten Frings (Werder Bremen) And Kevin Kuranyi has yet scored 18 goals this season Schalke 04. Rene Adler, tipped to be the goalkeeper holds in South Africa, is not in this list, since he withdrew because of a broken rib.
The German management has responded by calling Hans-Jorg Butt, which is not a surprise for the season at Bayern Munich. "He has the experience of a World (Substitute in 2002, Ed), he delivered an extraordinary season by being consistent and it shows with his personality that can help us, " justified Loew. What is surprising however is that Loew was careful to present Manuel Neuer as the new owner while being presented as the lining of Adler, if not as a No.1. "We will discuss all this in a calm and by the end of next week, we take a decision"Assured Löw.

The Bavarians absent until May 23:
On his first warm-up match, a meeting of charity against Malta 13 May at Aix-la-Chapelle, Loew will be without players from Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen, who dispute the final of the German Cup on May 15, while as captain Ballack that competed in the same day the final of the FA Cup. Five players from the selection Hopes were appointed solely for this game.
The Bayern players, almost all executives Nationalmannschaft, will be available at better than May 23, after the Champions League final against theInter Milan. They therefore miss the first training course called regeneration, in Sicily from May 14 to 22 Germany will do a second internship, still in Italy, from May 21 to June 2 with two friendly matches against Hungary on May 29 and Bosnia on June 3, before flying to South Africa on June 6 . In group D of the 2010 World Cup, the Nationalmannschaft, crowned in 1954, 1974 and 1990, will face Australia on June 13, Serbia June 18 and Ghana on June 23

The list of 27 shortlisted:
GoalkeepersHans-Jorg Butt (Bayern Munich), Manuel Neuer (Schalke 04), Tim Wiese (Werder Bremen)
DefendersDenis Aogo (Hamburg), Holger Badstuber (Bayern Munich), Andreas Beck (Hoffenheim) Jerome Boateng (Hamburg), Arne Friedrich (Berlin), Marcell Jansen (Hamburg), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Per Mertesacker (Werder Bremen), Serdar Tasci (Stuttgart), Heiko Westermann (Schalke 04)
MidfieldersMichael Ballack (Chelsea/ ENG), Sami Khedira (Stuttgart), Tony Kroos (Bayer Leverkusen), Marko Marin (Werder Bremen), Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich), Mesut Özil (Werder Bremen), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich), Christian trasch (Stuttgart), Piot Trochowski (Hamburg)
Forwards: Cacau (Stuttgart), Mario Gomez (Bayern Munich), Stefan Kiessling (Bayer Leverkusen), Miroslav Klose (Bayern Munich), Lukas Podolski (Cologne)

The five players selected only for the friendly match against Malta:
Tobias Sippel (Kaiserslautern), Mats Hummel (Dortmund), Kevin Grossreutz (Dortmund), Stefan Reinartz (Bayer Leverkusen), Marco Reus (Mönchengladbach) .