Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - Uncapped goalkeeper Rene Adler was named Friday in Germany's squad for next month's European Championships, with Valencia's Timo Hildebrand omitted. Joachim Loew has preferred Bayer Leverkusen's Adler, who at 23 is regarded as one of the brightest goalkeeping prospects in the game.
Loew chose to sacrifice 29-year-old Hildebrand, who moved to Spain's Valencia from VfB Stuttgart before the season and was regarded as understudy to Jens Lehmann in the Germany goal.
Hildebrand was also a member of the German 2006 World Cup squad.
Robert Enke, 30, of Hanover, who has been the third goalkeeper after breaking into the Germany squad since the World Cup, is in the party.
In a symbolic gesture to demonstrate Germany's aims of reaching European football's summit, Loew announced his squad at the Zugspitz, Germany's highest mountain, overlooking the Austrian border in southern Bavaria.
He has named a provisional party of 26 which will be trimmed to 23 by a May 28 deadline for squad registrations and after a training camp in Majorca beginning on Monday.
Among the players are uncapped 19-year-old striker Marko Marin of just-promoted Borussia Moenchengladbach and Patrick Helmes of second-division Cologne.
Also included is 33-year-old striker Oliver Neuville, a veteran of two World Cups, who has also just won promotion with Moenchengladbach, and Schalke midfielder Jermaine Jones.
Germany are in Group B of the tournament in Austria and Switzerland between June 7 and 29, with Austria, Croatia and Poland the group opponents.
Squad: Goalkeepers: Jens Lehmann (Arsenal), Robert Enke (Hanover), Rene Adler (Bayer Leverkusen)
Defenders: Christoph Metzelder (Real Madrid), Per Mertesacker (Werder Bremen), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Arne Friedrich (Hertha Berlin), Marcell Jansen (Bayern Munich), Clemens Fritz (Werder Bremen), Heiko Westermann (Schalke 04)
Midfielder: Michael Ballack (Chelsea), Thomas Hitzlsperger (VfB Stuttgart), Simon Rolfes (Bayer Leverkusen), Torsten Frings (Werder Bremen), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich), Piotr Trochowski (SV Hamburg), Tim Borowski (Werder Bremen), Jermaine Jones (Schalke 04), David Odonkor (Real Betis), Marko Marin (Borussia Moenchengladbach)
Forwards: Miroslav Klose (Bayern Munich), Lukas Podolski (Bayern Munich), Mario Gomez (VfB Stuttgart), Kevin Kuranyi (Schalke 04), Oliver Neuville (Borussia Moenchengladbach), Patrick Helmes (Cologne)
