Lennard Maloney’s USMNT call-up inspired by FC Heidenheim’s unlikely success

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Lennard Maloney’s USMNT call-up inspired by FC Heidenheim’s unlikely success
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Heidenheim have been German football's most incredible story and Maloney has been a key player for them

What a 2023 it has been for Lennard Maloney. On Thursday, the 23-year-old midfield received to Gregg Berhalter’s U.S. men’s national team. “Playing for the United States is one of my biggest dreams,” he told in 2018. “If Germany is possible, I will play for Germany. But somewhere in my heart, I want to play for the United States. I don’t know what it is. It’s just there.” Advertisement So, an ambition has been realised, but this is just the latest highpoint in a six months full of peaks.

At full time, goalkeeper Kevin Muller held his infant son in his arms and wept. Frank Schmidt, who has coached the team since 2007 and is the longest serving manager in German football history, led a wild and uninhibited celebration as the rest of looked on, rubbing its eyes in disbelief. Almost immediately — universally and not without good cause — they were written off. They would enjoy their time in the top flight, everyone wrote and predicted, but would be no match for the teams within it.

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