Joshua Zirkzee

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Joshua Zirkzee
Joshua Zirkzee 2019.jpg
at FC Bayern Munich (2019)
Personnel
Surname Joshua Orobosa Zirkzee
birthday May 22, 2001
place of birth Schiedam ,  Netherlands
size 193 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-2010 VV Hekelingen
2010-2013 Spartaan '20
2013-2016 ADO The Hague
2016-2017 Feyenoord Rotterdam
2017-2019 FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2018-2020 FC Bayern Munich II 26 (6)
2019– FC Bayern Munich 9 (4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2016 Netherlands U15 2 (0)
2016-2017 Netherlands U16 6 (3)
2017 Netherlands U17 2 (1)
2018 Netherlands U18 7 (2)
2019– Netherlands U19 9 (8)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of March 29, 2020

Joshua Orobosa Zirkzee (born May 22, 2001 in Schiedam , the Netherlands ) is a Dutch football player . The striker left his home country at the age of 16 and moved to FC Bayern Munich , where he has been making regular appearances for the first team since December 2019. He has played through all of the Netherlands' national junior teams so far and is currently part of the U19 selection .

Origin and family

Joshua Zirkzee was born in Schiedam , a city with almost 80,000 inhabitants, which borders Rotterdam immediately to the west . His father is Dutch and his mother is from Nigeria . When Joshua was three years old, the family moved to Spijkenisse , a few kilometers south-west and comparable to Schiedam in terms of population. His brother Jordan, who is four years younger than him, is also a soccer player and is currently playing as a striker in the youth team at Feyenoord Rotterdam .

Player career

societies

When he was four years old, Joshua Zirkzee began playing club football at VV Hekelingen, a small amateur club in the south of Spijkenisse. However, his father realized that his son was not challenged there in the long run and therefore looked for a new club. He found this in the Rooms Katholieke Sport Vereniging Spartaan 1920 , Spartaan '20 for short, a club in the south of Rotterdam with a good name in the region and around ten kilometers from Joshua's previous place of work. He stayed there for three years before he, now 12 years old, joined the youth team of the first division club ADO Den Haag , just under 30 kilometers from Rotterdam. He stayed here for three years too and returned to Rotterdam in 2016, but now to Feyenoord , one of the three big clubs in the Netherlands alongside Ajax Amsterdam and PSV Eindhoven . There he first played in the U16 team, but as a 15-year-old he already made some appearances in the top divisions of the B-Juniors and even the A-Juniors . However, he did not stay with Feyenoord for long, as the fast and tall offensive player was also noticed outside the Netherlands. Several well-known clubs showed interest in a commitment; To the annoyance of Feyenoord, Zirkzee even started training at Everton and played for the English at a youth tournament without Feyenoord's approval. Ultimately, however, Zirkzee decided against moving to the island, instead he signed with FC Bayern Munich at the end of August 2017 . The FC Bayern officials had observed the offensive player in Rotterdam several times and, despite a certain skepticism, decided to sign on because of Zirkzee's penchant for comfort.

After Zirkzee had to wait several weeks for permission to play, he played his first league game for the FC Bayern U17s in the B-Junioren-Bundesliga Süd / Südwest on October 29 under coach Holger Seitz . He contributed a goal to the 9-0 win against the league overstrained SV Elversberg . At the end of the season he had scored 15 goals in 16 league games and thus contributed significantly to winning the South German championship. This was followed by the final round of the German B-Junior Championship , in which two victories against RB Leipzig ensured a place in the final against Borussia Dortmund . In their own place, this ended for Zirkzee with a goal and a dismissal after an assault and for the team with a 2-3 defeat. In the course of the season he also made two short appearances for the U19s in the A-Juniors Bundesliga .

After the good performance for the U17s, the now 17-year-old Zirkzee was allowed to contest part of the season preparation including a USA tour with the professional team under the new coach Niko Kovač . He came to three short appearances and scored a goal against Paris Saint-Germain . However, he played everyday life in the league with the U19, the A-Junior team, trained by Sebastian Hoeneß , but had to watch the first four games due to a suspension after the red card in the B-Youth final. In the period from September 2018 to March 2019, he made 22 competitive appearances for the A-Juniors of FC Bayern and scored 18 goals. After Zirkzee had already made two short appearances for the amateur team in the fourth-class Bavarian regional league in autumn and in January for the amateurs at the Premier League International Cup , a tournament in England in which English and continental European U23 teams meet, a full game Had denied playing time, he was completely taken over into this team in the spring. There he met Holger Seitz again, who had trained him with the U17 the year before. In the remaining games of the second half of the Regionalliga Bayern he came to eight appearances, in which he scored four goals, three of them in his Regionalliga starting eleven, a 5-1 against SV Schalding-Heining . After being sent off at the game in Aschaffenburg , the sometimes uncontrolled Dutchman had to pause again, this time for three games. With the team he won the championship in the Regionalliga Bayern and in the following promotion games against the second representative of VfL Wolfsburg he was promoted to the 3rd division . In the decisive second leg, however, he was only substituted in in stoppage time. He also won the Premier League International Cup with the Bayern amateurs in May 2019 by beating Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 in the final .

In the third division , Zirkzee was mostly part of the starting eleven at the beginning, but often found himself on the bench as the season progressed. In September 2019, his contract was extended to June 2023. At the home game of the professional team against 1. FC Köln on September 21, 2019, he was on the bench. Under Hansi Flick , the new head coach of the first team, Zirkzee trained with his three teammates Oliver Batista-Meier , Leon Dajaku and Sarpreet Singh with the professional squad from mid-November 2019 , but still played mostly with the amateurs or the A-youth. In the last Champions League group game on December 11th against Tottenham Hotspur , he was substituted on in the closing stages of the game, as well as a week later at the Bundesliga away game in Freiburg . In that game he scored the 2-1 goal for Bayern with his first Bundesliga ball contact (final score 3-1) in stoppage time. Three days later, in the 2-0 home win against VfL Wolfsburg , he was again successful as a joker with his first ball contact. In the new year he was mostly on the bench with the professionals and was only substituted twice in the final stages. Otherwise, he played for the amateurs in the 3rd division and got his first two goals there after regularly missing the goal in the preliminary round. After Robert Lewandowski was injured at the end of February, at that time the top striker of the professional team with 25 goals in 23 Bundesliga games, Joshua Zirkzee was in the starting eleven in each of the following Bundesliga games and scored his third goal of the season in the 6-0 away win against TSG Hoffenheim the professional team. A few days later, gaming operations were temporarily suspended due to the spreading coronavirus pandemic . At that time, the 18-year-old's balance sheet was three goals in eight competitive appearances for the professional team, two goals in 16 third division games for the amateurs and six goals in six appearances for the junior junior players across all competitions.

As of May, games were resumed for both the professionals and the Bayern amateurs with ghost games , the season in the A youth area was not continued. After the break, Zirkzee made individual appearances for the Bundesliga team, mostly from the bench. For the amateur team, he no longer played.

National team

Joshua Zirkzee made his first international matches at the age of 14 in April 2016 , when he made two appearances for the U15 national team . Between December 2016 and June 2017 he played six international matches for the U16 team , including tournaments in Portugal and Japan, scoring three goals. As part of the qualification for the U17 European Championship 2018 , the striker played two games for the U17 in October 2017 , but did not take part in the European Championship in May 2018. His next appearance for his country wasn't until autumn 2018 when he played seven times for the U18 team . His further path led him to the U19 team . For this he was in action in three qualifying matches for the U19 European Championship in March 2019 . However, the qualification for the EM in Armenia failed. In the further course of 2019, he was used in six of the seven U19 international matches and scored eight times in the opposing goal in those games.

successes

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Profile of Jordan Zirkzee , transfermarkt.de, accessed on April 1, 2020
  3. ↑ Mikos Gouka: Feyenoord reads opnieuw toptalent aan buitenlandse Club. In: AD.nl . August 4, 2017, accessed on September 20, 2019 (Dutch, "Feyenoord loses top talent again to foreign club").
  4. ↑ Dennis Melzer: Top Talent Joshua Zirkzee from FC Bayern Munich: Hands to Heaven. In: goal.com . July 25, 2018, accessed September 20, 2019 .
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  6. ↑ "Talent alone is not enough": What Zirkzee is still missing , kicker.de, March 27, 2020, accessed on March 29, 2020
  7. ↑ 9: 0 - U17 celebrates shooting festival against Elversberg. In: fcbayern.com. October 29, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
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  9. ↑ 14 talents on US tour. In: fcbayern.com. July 22, 2018, accessed July 19, 2019 .
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  12. ↑ Amateurs are subject to Benfica Lisbon B , fcbayern.com, January 27, 2019, accessed April 5, 2020
  13. ↑ Matthias Horner: "Real Men" - Zirkzee names the differences between U19 and U23. In: tz.de . March 4, 2019, accessed July 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Amateurs win Premier League International Cup. In: fcbayern.com. May 2, 2019, accessed July 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Young player Zirkzee extends contract with FC Bayern. In: fcbayern.com. September 19, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .
  16. ↑ FC Bayern wins at the start of the Oktoberfest , fcbayern.com, September 21, 2019, accessed on September 25, 2019
  17. ↑ Bayern Munich II: Quartet is initially training with the pros , liga3-online.de, November 22, 2019, accessed on November 25, 2019
  18. ↑ Unknown Bayern player suddenly appears in the Champions League - only die-hard fans know him , tz.de, December 12, 2019, accessed on December 12, 2019
  19. ↑ "Greatest Talent" Zirkzee: Salihamidzic raves about a "But" , kicker.de, December 19, 2019, accessed on December 19, 2019
  20. ↑ FC Bayern: The crazy statistics for the Zirkzee fireworks , abendzeitung-muenchen.de, December 21, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Zirkzee, Joshua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zirkzee, Joshua Orobosa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 2001
PLACE OF BIRTH Schiedam , Netherlands , Kingdom of the Netherlands