The coach of Germany Joachim Löw has selected the following 23 player squad for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa that compromise the team’s World Cup squad. Joachim Löw is taking 6 strikers in South Africa and decided to leave Andreas Beck behind at the very last minute. Germany that is facing a lot of injuries will definitely have problems in the midfielder position since they lost 3 players that can help in the middle. The list below is the official Germany World Cup team roster as announced before June 1st 2010 and cannot be modified unless a player gets injured before the opening game of Germany in the 2010 World Cup. The captain of the German World Cup team is Philipp Lahm since Michael Ballack is out of the World Cup due to an injury.
Germany World Cup 2010 team roster - GOALKEEPERS
Manuel Neuer
Hans-Jörg Butt
Tim Wiese
Germany World Cup 2010 team roster - DEFENDERS
Marcell Jansen
Holger Badstuber
Philipp Lahm
Per Mertesacker
Arne Friedrich
Dennis Aogo
Serdar Tasci
Jérôme Boateng
Germany World Cup 2010 team roster - MIDFIELDERS
Sami Khedira
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Piotr Trochowski
Toni Kroos
Marko Marin
Mesut Özil
Germany World Cup 2010 team roster - FORWARDS
Stefan Kießling
Lukas Podolski
Cacau
Mario Gómez
Miroslav Klose
Thomas Müller