Dusseldorf - Germany coach Joachim Loew Sunday booted striker Kevin Kuranyi from the national side after the Schalke player went missing following the team's World Cup qualifier against Russia on Saturday. Loew said he would not pick the 26-year-old striker again.
"I cannot accept the way Kevin reacted and in future will not nominate him for the national team," the coach said in Dusseldorf.
Kuranyi, who had not been picked for Saturday evening's World Cup qualifier in Dortmund, had been watching in the stands but was found to be absent following the 2-1 win.
He is believed to have left the stadium during the game which Germany won 2-1 with goals from Lukas Podolski and Michael Ballack.
Attempts to locate or contact Kuranyi after the match failed, and the team bus left the ground in Dortmund without him.
Friends of the player later collecting his personal belongings from the team hotel.
The German Football Federation said there had been no contact with Kuranyi by midday Sunday when the squad resumed training.
Brazilian-born Kuranyi, who has scored 19 goals in 52 games for Germany, was unhappy at being left out of Loew's 18-man line-up and substitutes for the game.
He watched the Group 4 qualifier with Schalke team-mate Jermaine Jones - the other player in the squad not on the team list - from one of the stands.
At half-time he told Jones he would watch the rest of the match with friends at another stand, but was not seen again.
Loew said that following a team meeting hours before the game on Saturday Kuranyi had expressed his disappointment at not being nominated even for a place as one of the substitutes.
"I can understand his disappointment but the reaction which followed on the evening is unacceptable," Loew said.
"We have 20 top players here with the national team and we coaches will always have to take tough decisions."
Kuranyi, who made his international debut in March 2003, had returned to the national team set-up after being surprisingly omitted for the 2006 World Cup squad by coach Juergen Klinsmann and Loew, then Klinsmann's assistant.
After good performances for Schalke, he was called up again by Loew in February 2007 and was a member of the Germany squad at this summer's European Championships in Austria and Switzerland.
However he had to accept the role of a reserve, with only three brief appearances as a substitute, his longest in the final when he came on in the 58th minute in Germany's 1-0 defeat to Spain.
In Germany's four games since then, including Saturday's against Russia, his appearances had been limited to two as a substitute.
