“Defense is for the whole team”

The international defender of Germany Robin Koch He recalled this Thursday that “defense is something that belongs to the entire team”, on the eve of the Nations League soccer duel where the German team and the German national team will face each other. Bosnia and Herzegovinaon Saturday at Freiburg (southwest).

“Defense is something that belongs to the whole team, and it’s something that makes us stronger. There’s always a lot of talk about defenders like us, but I think everything starts at the top,” he said. Koch in the press conference he did with the international defender Robin Gosens.

Koch28 years old and vice-captain of Eintracht Frankfurt, and Gosens, a 30-year-old footballer who is playing this season on loan at Fiorentina, are two defenders used by the German coach Julian Nagelsmann for Germany’s Nations League match against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Koch and Gosens They are not the usual players at the back Germanybut due to the good progress of the students of Nagelsmann In the competition in the league of countries, where the Germans have already qualified for the next stage and are undefeated, they can have minutes.

“I have been out of the national team for a year and I see my role as one that needs to be confirmed,” he said of his situation in the senior team. gosens, who added in this sense that his “job” is to perform to “make his decisions as difficult as possible for the coach.”

After his duel against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany will be measured on Tuesday Hungary in Budapeston the last date of the current competition phase.

Germany leads with ten points – three wins and one draw – Group A3 of the tournament, followed by the Netherlands (2nd) and Hungary (3rd), both teams are tied on five points, while Bosnia Herzegovina is in bottom because it achieved only one point in the competition.