Lahm sees DFB selection in the circle of the Favorites

2014 world champion Philipp Lahm sees the German football national team at the World Cup in Qatar in the extended favorite price.

"If you start against the top nations, it will probably be tighter sometime sometime, especially if it goes to the quarterfinals, semi-finals, finals, it is always tight and you can seriously predict. But we are always co-preferity," Lahm said Monday evening in Berlin.

Before the draw on Friday (17:55 pm / ARD) in Doha, the former DFB captain did not want to name a desired opponent and reminded of the European Championship 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. "In a very difficult group with Holland, Portugal and Denmark we are parliaced with nine points. That did not matter to the title," says, "The preparation for such a tournament is enormously important for a team to import and each other trusted."

Even the new DFB President Bernd Neuendorf acted on the edge of the awarding of the Sepp-Herberger awards in the capital with a heavy.

"Talking today from light or feasible opponents is really difficult. It is a very balanced field," the 60-year-old said: "The Canadians who have now qualified now, I have already seen a huge development everywhere instead. I am pleased about every opponent and look at what that brings for us. "