Woltemade shines with three-pack-U21 celebrates successful European Championship start!

Woltemade shines with three-pack-U21 celebrates successful European Championship start!

A successful start for the German U21 national team! On June 12, 2025, the DFB selection was able to prevail 3-0 against Slovenia at the first game of the European U21 European Championship. The European Championship takes place in Slovakia and runs until June 28, 2025. In front of around 2,700 spectators in Nitra, Nick Woltemade showed an outstanding performance and laced a triple pack: his goals fell in the 19th, 42nd and 82nd minute, the latter by penalty. After the game, Woltemade was happy about the successful start and emphasized how important it was for the team that worked towards the title.

Sports director Rudi Völler was optimistic and sees his protégés as talented enough to book the ticket for the knockout round in the next group game on June 25th. In the final group game, the DFB team meets the defending champion England on June 28th. Woltemade, who recently celebrated a cup win with VfB Stuttgart and debuted in the A-National team, showed a remarkable performance despite an intensive program and honored the support of Nicolo Tresoldi, who helped him in the first goal.

Next challenges

The U21 plays in Group B together with Slovenia, the Czech Republic and England. While the first game against Slovenia has already been successfully played, the team will be put to the test until the final. The last U21 European Championships were a challenge for Germany; Two years ago they were eliminated in the preliminary round. Now the team around coach Antonio di Salvo would like to show that they have learned from the past.

The next encounters have been determined:

• Germany against the Czech Republic: June 25, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
• England against Germany: June 28, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.

The German U21 has strengthened with a squad of 23 players who are composed of talents. Among them are goalkeepers such as Noah Atubolu and strikers such as Nelson Weiper and Woltemade. Derry Scherhann (Hertha BSC) as well as the injured players Johannes Schenk (Prussia Münster) and Finn Jeltsch (VfB Stuttgart) are not in the squad.

television transmission and tickets

If you don't want to miss a game of the German U21, you can look forward to: All games of the team are live on the free TV on Sat.1 and in stream on ran.de Translated the RAN app. Tickets for the games are available from 15 euros via the official UEFA homepage.

can only be hoped that the team will take the positive energy from the opening victory and master the next challenges as confidently as against Slovenia. The fans can look forward to the upcoming games of the EM 2025! Further information can be found at ka-news , swp and Sky .