BERLIN, June 1 (Reuters) - Record-breaking Lothar Matthaeus was included in Germany's Euro 2000 squad as expected on Thursday despite a thigh injury.
The 39-year-old veteran pulled a muscle in his right thigh
at a training camp in Mallorca at the weekend and will be
unavailable when the European champions play the Czech Republic
on Saturday in Nuremberg.
Matthaeus, eager to extend his world record of 146 caps,
hopes to be back for his side's final warm-up against
Liechtenstein on June 7 in Freiburg.
The captain of Germany's 1990 World Cup-winning squad plans
to end his prolific international career after the European
championship finals.
Head coach Erich Ribbeck made no changes to the 22 he
released on May 22.
Bayern Munich midfielder Jens Jeremies, nursing a fractured
collarbone, was left in but faces a struggle to be fit in time
for Germany's Euro 2000 opener against Romania in Liege on June
12.
Full Germany Squad
Goalkeepers: 22-Hans-Joerg Butt (Hamburg SV), 12-Jens
Lehmann (Borussia Dortmund), 1-Oliver Kahn (Bayern Munich)
Defenders: 2-Markus Babbel (Bayern Munich), 4-Thomas Linke
(Bayern Munich), 10-Lothar Matthaeus (New York-New Jersey
MetroStars, U.S.), 6-Jens Nowotny (Bayer Leverkusen), 3-Marko
Rehmer (Hertha Berlin)
Midfielders: 13-Michael Ballack (Bayer Leverkusen),
18-Sebastian Deisler (Hertha Berlin), 14-Dietmar Hamann
(Liverpool, England), 8-Thomas Haessler (TSV 1860 Munich),
16-Jens Jeremies (Bayern Munich), 21-Carsten Ramelow (Bayer
Leverkusen), 7-Mehmet Scholl (Bayern Munich), 15-Dariusz Wosz
(Hertha Berlin), 17-Christian Ziege (Middlesbrough, England)
Forwards: 20-Oliver Bierhoff (AC Milan, Italy), 5-Marco Bode
(Werder Bremen), 19-Carsten Jancker (Bayern Munich), 9-Ulf
Kirsten (Bayer Leverkusen), 11-Paulo Rink (Bayer Leverkusen)
