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Loew to name provisional World Cup squad May 6 in Stuttgart
Apr 1, 2010, 12:32 GMT
Hamburg - Coach Joachim Loew will announce a provisional Germany squad for the football World Cup on May 6 in Stuttgart, the German football federation (DFB) said on Thursday.
The announcement comes two days before the Bundesliga finale and Loew has already suggested that he will possibly nominate more than the 23 players he can have on the final squad for the June 11-July 11 tournament in South Africa.
Each participating nation can name up to 35 players to the ruling body FIFA by May 11. The deadline for the final squad is June 5.
Loew nominated 26 players for the provisional squad ahead of Euro 2008, with three players then dropped later.
Germany's World Cup preparation starts with a May 13 friendly against Malta, where he will be without the players from Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen who contest the German cup final on May 15.
Training camps in Sicily and northern Italy follow until June 2, with tune-up matches set for May 29 against Hungary and May 3 against Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The German team leaves for South Africa on June 6, one week ahead of the team's first match on June 13 against Australia. The other games are against Serbia on June 18 and Ghana on June 23.
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