National coach Wück makes Giulia Gwinn a DFB captain

“Both are very firm in terms of character, very well in their clubs and here with us. They represent an opinion that can also be founded well-founded, ”said Wück, after the morning training on the DFB campus in Frankfurt am Main. There is also a good relationship of trust with both. The services were also “very good” under his direction in the four international matches so far. “I am convinced that we made a good choice with the two,” added DFB sports director Nia Künzer.

National League start on Friday in Breda

Her premiere as a new captain should celebrate Gwinn, who, like Minge (25) from the Lake Constance region, is already celebrating on Friday (8:45 p.m./ARD) if the first competitive game under the new national coach is due for the German eleven. In Breda, the Wück team meets the National League start of the Dutch. The following Tuesday in Nuremberg in the same competition against Austria (6.15 p.m./ZDF). The duels serve primarily as preparation for the European Championship from July 2 to 27 in Switzerland.

Right-back Gwinn had recently mentioned the DFB team and always emphasized that he would like to take responsibility. On the square, Gwinn convinces with technology, flank balls and penalty gates, and her voice can also be heard more.

When the DFB awarded the Julius Hirsch Prize for Democracy and Human dignity as well as against anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination, Gwinn also gave a speech. Football clubs are places of the encounter, where “there is also a very clear limits to be given, freedom of expression, especially in relation to racism, anti -Semitism, sexism or any form of discrimination,” said the Vice -European champion from 2022.

Gwinn also strongly present on Instagram

Gwinn’s messages are heard, at least with their 630,000 followers on Instagram. On social media, she presents a mix of fashion, sports and lifestyle, but does not want to know her role there: “It bothers me when you represent me as an influencer, because I don’t see myself that way,” she said in an interview the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.

Bayern colleague Lena Oberdorf, who still laboratories on the consequences of a cruciate ligament rupture, sees the new captain above all a “pot raw for the job”. Maybe because Gwinn also fought back from serious injuries. Twice, in September 2020 and October 2022, her cruciate ligament tore, so in 2023 she missed the World Cup in Australia.

She has already learned to assert herself in youth, Gwinn revealed – at first especially against boys. “I had to listen to a lot of discriminatory sayings, especially from opponents, according to the motto: a girl plays along, what has lost here? She has no business here ”. She has long since found her place, now also as a co -captain of the national team.