Voller calls up teenagers for EURO 2004

Teenagers Lukas Podolski and Bastian Schweinsteiger have been called up to the Germany squad for Euro 2004.

Podolski, 18, scored 10 goals in 19 games for relegated Cologne, while Schweinsteiger, 19, a product of Bayern Munich’s youth programme, earns his place at the expense of the injured midfielder Paul Freier.

Squad:
Goalkeepers: Oliver Kahn (Bayern Munich), Jens Lehmann (Arsenal London), Timo Hildebrand (Stuttgart).
Defenders: Arne Friedrich (Hertha Berlin), Christian Woerns (Borussia Dortmund), Jens Nowotny (Bayer Leverkusen), Andreas Hinkel (Stuttgart), Philipp Lahm (Stuttgart), Frank Baumann (Werder Bremen), Christian Ziege.
Midfielders: Dietmar Hamann (FC Liverpool), Michael Ballack (Bayern Munich), Jens Jeremies (Bayern Munich), Bernd Schneider (Bayer Leverkusen), Torsten Frings (Borussia Dortmund), Sebastian Kehl (Borussia Dortmund), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich), Fabian Ernst (Werder Bremen).
Forwards: Kevin Kuranyi (Stuttgart), Miroslav Klose (Kaiserslautern), Fredi Bobic (Hertha Berlin), Thomas Brdaric (Hannover), Lukas Podolski (Cologne).