Ahead Lea Schuller mentioned she is assured two-time champions Germany can be taught from the setbacks it confronted on the final Girls’s World Cup and European Championship because it goals to make a deep run on the showpiece occasion in Australia and New Zealand this month.
Germany dominated each European Championship from 1995 to 2013 with a file eight crowns, having additionally received consecutive World Cups in 2003 and 2007.
However its final worldwide title, aside from Olympic gold in 2016, is now a decade outdated, and its 2022 runner-up spot to England on the European Championship is its greatest consequence since 2013.
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“I feel after the European Championships we have to present that we aren’t simply high in Europe, however in the entire world. I feel that we will do it,” Schuller, who performs for Bayern Munich within the Frauen-Bundesliga, mentioned in an interview posted on FIFA’s web site.
The Germans, who reached the quarter-finals on the 2019 World Cup, have been drawn to face South Korea, Morocco and Colombia within the group part, and Schuller is optimistic that her staff can overcome all of their opponents.
“I feel we will nonetheless beat all of the groups… The most effective we will do is to assume from recreation to recreation, like we did within the European Championships. That helped us, so due to that, I’m trying ahead to the primary video games,” she mentioned.
When requested about captain and two-time German footballer of the 12 months Alexandra Popp, Schuller mentioned she wish to play alongside her extra.
“We each play in the identical place. After which it’s identical to I’m often substituted for her or the opposite approach round,” Schuller added.
“She’s somebody who can get the entire staff behind her, so to talk. When she runs ahead, then it does one thing to the staff. Or when she runs and someway will get the ball, that’s what makes a frontrunner.”
Germany will kick off their Group H marketing campaign towards Morocco on July 24.