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Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann has made as damning assessment of the state of the national team less than four months before the start of the Euro 2024 home tournament, and he vowed there would be surprises in the squad for the event. “The senior national team has been at rock bottom for years. There’s been nothing recently that could give us hope of reaching the semi-finals,” Nagelsmann told Der Spiegel magazine in an interview published on Friday. Germany won only three of its 11 games in 2023 and ended the year in bad shape with defeats against Turkey and Austria. It won the World Cup in 2…