Barcelona shot-stopper to miss Euros with knee problem
Germany’s Marc-Andre ter Stegen will miss next month’s European Championship after the Barcelona goalkeeper said on Monday he needed to undergo a procedure on his knee.
The 29-year-old played the full 90 minutes in Sunday’s 2-1 home defeat by Celta Vigo which ended Barcelona’s LaLiga title challenge with one game left in the season.
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“I have decided together with the medical team of the club that I will do a complementary intervention on my knee. I’m sad that I will miss the Euro 2020 this summer with Germany,” Ter Stegen wrote on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CO-SpqmgAkZ/?igshid=hugobk66nn7i.
“For the first time in many years I will be a fan at home supporting my country, I hope we win it.”
Bayern Munich goalkeeper and Germany captain Manuel Neuer is expected to start at the Euros where they are in Group F along with Hungary, Portugal and world champions France, who they play in their first game on June 15 in Munich.