Germany will be without six members of their provisional Euro 2008 squad for Tuesday's friendly against Belarus in Kaiserslautern.

Coach Joachim Low has so far named a 26-man squad and has chosen to rest Kevin Kuranyi and Simon Rolfes for their penultimate warm-up match.

Rene Adler (pelvis), Tim Borowski (cold), Arne Friedrich (stomach) and Mario Gomez (calf) are out through illness or injury and will also remain at Germany's pre-tournament camp in Mallorca for light traning.

Michael Ballack has now joined up with the squad after playing in Chelsea's Champions League final defeat by Manchester United.

Ballack return

The influential midfielder will not only travel with the squad to face Belarus but is set to captain the 1996 winners as he returns to one of his former clubs.

Germany will then return to their training camp before facing Serbia in Gelsenkirchen on Saturday in their final friendly.

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