Former Bayern Munich player Mitchell Weiser has been waiting on his national team debut for a while. As a German citizen, Weiser has represented Germany at every youth level, complete with winning Germany’s U-21s the U-21 European Championship in 2017. It seemed as if Weiser was a natural candidate for the senior Germany team when he was young, but a senior cap never materialized.
But Weiser’s international hopes are not dead. It was recently confirmed that the Werder Bremen player’s maternal grandmother makes him eligible to line up for Algeria. With the requisite paperwork to represent Algeria completed after October international break, November’s fixtures against Equatorial Guinea and Liberia were earmarked as the matches for Weiser’s long-awaited national team debut.
Werder Bremen even received an invitation from Algeria to join the national team in November. And yet, Weiser has been left out of the Algerian national team squad. How did this happen? Bremen’s head of football explains why the invite did not lead to a nomination, as captured by Florian Plettenberg:
“We had received an invitation from the association for him, which led us to believe it was the final nomination. Apparently, it was only the preliminary squad.“
It is a farcical situation, made up of terrible communication and broken dreams. Poor Weiser must now contend himself with staying at home yet again during an international break. Still, he made it a lot closer to a senior international call up than he ever had before in his life. Surely he will make the Algeria squad someday…
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