Joshua Kimmich

Joshua Kimmich
with the national team (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Joshua Walter Kimmich
birthday	February 8, 1995
place of birth	Rottweil ,  Germany
size	176 cm
position	Defensive midfield , right defense
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2007	VfB Bösingen
2007-2013	VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2015	RB Leipzig	53 0(3)
2013	RB Leipzig II	1 0(0)
2015–	FC Bayern Munich	146 (13)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2011	Germany U17	2 (0)
2013	Germany U18	5 (0)
2013-2014	Germany U19	9 (1)
2014-2016	Germany U21	14 (2)
2016–	Germany	48 (3)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of November 19, 2019

Joshua Walter Kimmich [ ˈjoːzu̯a ] (born February 8, 1995 in Rottweil ) is a German football player . He has been under contract with Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich since the 2015/16 season and won the triple of championship , cup and Champions League with the club in 2020 . Since 2016 he plays for the senior team of the DFB .

Club career

Youth and VfB Stuttgart

Joshua Kimmich started playing football at VfB Bösingen in the Rottweil district and moved to the VfB Stuttgart youth training center when he was twelve . After going through all age groups , he played 21 games in the A-Jugend-Bundesliga in the 2012/13 season . Parallel to his football career, he passed the Abitur at the Wirtemberg-Gymnasium in Stuttgart with an average grade of 1.7.

RB Leipzig

From the A-youth of VfB Stuttgart Kimmich was the 2013/14 season from the third division promoted RB Leipzig committed. He received a two-year contract, the term of which would have been extended by two more years if VfB Stuttgart had not used a buyback option. For RB Leipzig he played 26 senior league games in his premier season in which he scored one goal. He made his debut on September 28, 2013 (11th matchday) in a 2-2 home game against SpVgg Unterhaching with a substitution for Thiago Rockenbach in the 55th minute. He scored his first professional goal on November 30, 2013 (18th matchday) in a 3-2 win in the away game against 1. FC Saarbrücken . In all other games in which he was used, he was part of the starting line-up; at the end of the season he rose with the team as runners-up in the second division . There he made his debut on August 10, 2014 (2nd matchday) in a 3-0 win in the away game against TSV 1860 Munich .

FC Bayern Munich

Joshua Kimmich during training on the grounds of FC Bayern Munich (2015)

Kimmich during training on the grounds of FC Bayern Munich (2017)

For the 2015/16 season he was signed by FC Bayern Munich , with Kimmich receiving a contract that initially ran until June 30, 2020. Most of the fee went to VfB Stuttgart, which bought back Kimmich's transfer rights from RB Leipzig via a contract option and sold it directly to FC Bayern Munich. Alexander Zorniger , who had become head coach of VfB for the 2015/16 season, assessed the transfer of Kimmich in November 2015 as "a fatal wrong decision" due to his good sporting development in Munich. In his first season, Kimmich came under coach Pep Guardiola in changing positions in midfield and defense, played 23 of the 34 league games and started 15 times. With the team he became German champion. On May 21, 2016 he was in the cup final against Borussia Dortmund in Berlin . He was on the starting grid; FC Bayern won 4-3 on penalties , with Kimmich being the only Bayern player unable to convert his penalty. He won the double with it . He was also used several times in the Champions League, partly on the starting line-up, but was not taken into account in the semi-finals against Atlético Madrid , in which Bayern were just beaten .

Also in the 2016/17 season , now under coach Carlo Ancelotti , he was barely considered in many "big" games, such as in the Champions League knockout round against Arsenal or in the quarter-finals when they were eliminated against Real Madrid and the DFB Cup - Semi-final against Borussia Dortmund, which was lost 2: 3. With six goals in 27 league games, he contributed to winning the German championship in 2017. With this title, long-time Bayern captain Philipp Lahm resigned and ended his career.

Kimmich succeeded Lahm in the position of right-back in the 2017/18 season and established himself as a regular player. With FC Bayern he was again German champion, in the Champions League the club was eliminated again by Real Madrid, this time in the semi-finals, with Kimmich scoring a goal in both games, and the final in the DFB Cup was lost to Eintracht Frankfurt .

In the 2018/19 season , now under coach Niko Kovač , he continued to act mostly as a right-back, but was increasingly used in the sixth position in the defensive midfield . In what is now his fourth season at FC Bayern, he was able to hold the championship trophy for the fourth time in the Allianz Arena and then on Marienplatz , plus the victory in the DFB Cup against his former team RB Leipzig, making him his second in 2019 Double won. In the Champions League failed Kimmich with Bayern already in the second round at the eventual winners Liverpool . In the second leg he was suspended after his third yellow card in the competition.

In the 2019/2020 season , Kimmich was mainly used in defensive midfield, also under Kovac's successor Hansi Flick . In 2020 the double from the championship and the cup could be defended. He also won the Champions League in the final against Paris Saint-Germain on August 23, 2020 , in which he assisted Kingsley Coman's 1-0 winner . So he won the triple with Bayern .

His contract runs until June 30, 2023.

National team career

After Kimmich 2011 already two international matches for the U-17 - (on 12 and 15 November from the selection of Azerbaijan) and 2013, five for the U-18 youth team of the DFB had graduated, he made his debut on 13 November 2013 in Bayonne in The U-19 national team won 4: 3 against France and also scored his first international goal with the 2: 2 goal in the 49th minute.

In the U-21 national team , he played for the first time on October 10 and 14, 2014 as a substitute in the two qualifying games for the U-21 European Championship (which took place in June 2015 in the Czech Republic ) against Ukraine .

On May 17, 2016, Kimmich was nominated for the first time for the provisional squad of the senior national team at the 2016 European Football Championship in France. He made his international debut on May 29, 2016 in Augsburg in a 3-1 defeat in the friendly against Slovakia , after which he was confirmed for the final EM squad.

At the European Championships in France, Kimmich came in the third game of the group stage against Northern Ireland for his second appearance in the national team. He completed the entire game as a right full-back. He secured a regular place for the following games. Following the tournament, he was accepted into the UEFA All-Star Team .

He scored his first international goal on September 4, 2016 in Oslo with the 2-0 goal in the 45th minute in a 3-0 win in the qualifying game for the 2018 World Cup against Norway .

National coach Joachim Löw nominated Kimmich for the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 in Russia . There he took over the captaincy of the German national team for the first time in the third group game against Cameroon after the substitution of Julian Draxler . He was the only German player who was on the pitch in all five tournament games for the entire season. On July 2, 2017, he won the Confederations Cup with the DFB-Elf by beating Chile 1-0 in the final .

In 2018 he was nominated by Joachim Löw for the soccer world championship in Russia. There he was in all three group games over the full distance, but retired with the DFB team as the group bottom in the preliminary round.

Others

In the comedy film Fack ju Göhte 3 , which appeared on October 26, 2017, Kimmich was seen alongside his teammates from FC Bayern Munich, David Alaba and Mats Hummels as extras.

In 2020 he started the We Kick Corona initiative together with Leon Goretzka .

successes

National team

• FIFA Confederations Cup : 2017
• U-19 European Champion : 2014

societies

RB Leipzig (2013-2015)

• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga (1): 2014

FC Bayern Munich (since 2015)

• UEFA Champions League winner (1): 2020
• German champion (5): 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020
• DFB-Pokal winners (3): 2016 , 2019 , 2020
• DFL Supercup Winner (3): 2016 , 2017 , 2018

Awards

• All-Star-Team of the European Championship 2016
• Prize winner of the Fritz Walter Medal 2013 in silver (second best young player U-18)
• Winner of the Fritz Walter Medal 2014 in bronze (third best young player U-19)
• Audi Generation Award 2016
• DFB national player of the year 2017
• Member of VDV 11 : 2017/18 , 2018/19 , 2019/20
• Goal of the month : May 2020
• Classification as world class in the ranking of German football : Summer 2020

Web links

Commons : Joshua Kimmich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Joshua Kimmich in the database of the German Football Association
• Joshua Kimmich in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Joshua Kimmich in the database of weltfussball.de
• Joshua Kimmich in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Player list FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 ( Memento from June 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Saskia Aleythe: Kimmich to FC Bayern: model students from the top tier. In: sueddeutsche.de. January 4, 2015, accessed April 13, 2016 . 
3. ^ André Schmidt: RB Leipzig: Joshua Kimmich (18) on the national team, role model Xavi and tortillas. In: bild.de. December 7, 2013, accessed December 17, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Julian Koch: RB Leipzig wins the tug of war for Joshua Kimmich. In: liga3-online.de. July 5, 2013, accessed December 17, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Wilfried Sprenger: Model student Joshua Kimmich. In: wn.de. June 24, 2015, accessed June 26, 2016 . 
6. ^ VfB Stuttgart: Joshua Kimmich changes to RB Leipzig. In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . Retrieved December 17, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Why FC Bayern Munich really wants Joshua Kimmich. In: t-online.de. May 28, 2015, accessed December 17, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Bayern get Kimmich by 2020 - VfB collects. In: kicker.de . January 2, 2015, accessed December 17, 2015 . 
9. ↑ VfB coach Zorniger on Kimmich transfer: "Fatal wrong decision". In: transfermarkt.de . November 9, 2015, accessed December 17, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Insurmountable in one-on-one. August 24, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Editor: FC Bayern extended early with Joshua Kimmich - FC Bayern Munich . In: FC Bayern Munich . March 9, 2018 ( fcbayern.com [accessed March 9, 2018]).
12. ↑ Löws EM selection , dfb.de, accessed on May 21, 2016
13. ↑ The extended EM squad for the European Championship in France 2016 (June 10 to July 10) ( Memento from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), dfb.de, accessed on May 21, 2016
14. ^ The squad for the European Championship in France 2016 (June 10 to July 10) ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), dfb.de, accessed on May 31, 2016
15. ↑ de.uefa.com: UEFA EURO 2016: The team of the tournament. uefa.com, July 12, 2016, accessed July 12, 2016 . 
16. ↑ This is the German squad for the Confed Cup 2017. TZ.de, June 19, 2017, accessed on June 19, 2017 . 
17. ^ First film role for David Alaba. May 19, 2017, accessed August 24, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Goretzka and Kimmich start the “We kick Corona” initiative. In: Welt Online . March 20, 2020, accessed May 10, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Michael Stricz: Fritz Walter Medal 2013: The winners: These are the best talents in Germany. spox.com, July 5, 2013, accessed August 14, 2014 . 
20. ↑ Prize winners 2016 on generationen.de, accessed on October 16, 2017
21. ↑ https://fanclub.dfb.de/artikel/kimmich-ist-nationalplayer-des-jahres-180707/