Germany have announced their provisional 27-man squad with Mario Gotze the most notable absentee.
Manager Joachim Low, who has extended his contract until 2022, has, however, included Manuel Neuer.
The Bayern Munich goalkeeper has been out of action since breaking his foot in September but makes the cut while the man who scored in extra time against Argentina in 2014 to seal Germany’s fourth World Cup, has been omitted.
Germany are in Group F at the World Cup in Russia, along with Mexico, Sweden and South Korea.
Germany provisional 27-man squad in full
Goalkeepers:
- Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen)
- Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich)
- Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona)
- Kevin Trapp (Paris St-Germain)
Defenders:
- Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich)
- Matthias Ginter (Borussia Monchengladbach)
- Jonas Hector (Cologne)
- Mats Hummels (Bayern Munich)
- Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich)
- Marvin Plattenhardt (Hertha Berlin)
- Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea)
- Niklas Sule (Bayern Munich)
- Jonathan Tah (Bayer Leverkusen)
Midfielders:
- Julian Brandt (Bayer Leverkusen)
- Julian Draxler (Paris St-Germain)
- Leon Goretska (Schalke)
- Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City)
- Sami Khedira (Juventus)
- Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)
- Mesut Ozil (Arsenal)
- Sebastian Rudy (Bayern Munich)
- Leroy Sane (Manchester City)
Strikers:
- Mario Gomez (Stuttgart)
- Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich)
- Nils Petersen (SC Freiburg)
- Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund)
- Timo Werner (RB Leipzig)
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