The Bayern Munich centre-back has insisted he wants to return for his country after seeing them relegated from their Nations League group <\/p>\n
Jerome Boateng wants his place back in the Germany team – and has warned his young rivals he has not retired from international football.<\/p>\n
National team boss Joachim Low dropped the 30-year-old Bayern Munich centre-back from his squad for the final two UEFA Nations League games with the Netherlands and France in favour of younger options.<\/p>\n
It led to former Bayern great Lothar Matthaus admitting\u00a0 he feared Boateng’s Germany career was over .<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Low\u00a0selected Bayern’s Niklas Sule, 23, Chelsea’s Antonio Rudiger, 25, and Borussia Monchengladbach man Matthias Ginter, 24, ahead of him.<\/p>\n But Germany were relegated from League A without winning a game and Boateng warned: “Quality prevails.”<\/p>\n He told Sport Bild <\/em> : “I did not retire.”\u00a0<\/p>\n And he added: “Younger players have to get their time, even in my position, but in the end the quality prevails.<\/p>\n “You also have to play consistently, you cannot think as a young player after one or two good games ‘Now I have the position permanently’.<\/p>\n “I’ve have been playing for years in the national team and for Bayern. I was consistent\u00a0apart from a few phases in my career\u00a0where it did not go that way.”<\/p>\n Low at the time explained his decision to omit the former Manchester City defender by saying: \u201cI\u2019m convinced he could do with a good break.<\/p>\n \u201cI told him I have several options for his position with many good young players coming through.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to just dump the 2014 generation but it is now time for further changes. The team needs pepping up and it\u2019s my job to do that.”<\/p>\n Boateng played in the opening game of the Nations League against the Dutch and Matthaus said:\u00a0“I can well imagine that the national coach did not like it\u00a0that Jerome left injured after the 3-0 defeat in Holland last month, and then completed a full training session at FC Bayern on the day of the France match a few days later.<\/p>\n “It could well be that this is a very long break for Boateng, as long as Low is in charge there.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bayern Munich centre-back has insisted he wants to return for his country after seeing them relegated from their Nations League group Jerome Boateng wants his place back in the Germany team – and has warned his young rivals he has not retired from international football. National team boss Joachim Low dropped the 30-year-old Bayern…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n