Tenero, Switzerland - Torsten Frings is back in full training despite a cracked rib but the German camp did not reveal on Tuesday whether the influential midfielder will play in the Euro 2008 semi-final with Turkey.
"It speaks for him that he wants to play. I just returned from training and he did everything there," said assistant coach Hansi Flick.
Captain Michael Ballack said: "Torsten is fit again, he has trained. He is pain-free, it is no risk when he plays."
However, neither man said that Frings will return into the team and coach Joachim Loew also remained tight-lipped on the issue the previous day.
Frings had to sit out the quarter-final match with Portugal which Germany won 3-2. In order to contain Portugal and to make up for the absence of Frings, Germany added midfielders Thomas Hitzlsperger and Simon Rolfes.
Loew is yet to say whether Germany will play in this 4-5-1 formation again, return to a 4-4-2 or even a 4-3-3 formation which could decide on Frings' fate.
Frings and Ballack are the normally the German team leaders in midfield.
Germany were ousted in the 2006 World Cup semi-finals against Italy when Frings was suspended over a post-quarter-final-match brawl with Argentina, many experts naming his absence one factor why the Germans lost. (dpa)
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