Joshua Kimmich
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 8 February 1995 | ||
| Place of birth | Rottweil, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position |
Defensive Midfielder Defender |
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| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Bayern Munich | ||
| Number | 32 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2007 | VfB Bösingen | ||
| 2007–2013 | VfB Stuttgart | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2015 | RB Leipzig | 53 | (3) |
| 2015– | Bayern Munich | 46 | (4) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2011 | Germany U17 | 2 | (0) |
| 2013 | Germany U18 | 5 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Germany U19 | 9 | (1) |
| 2014– | Germany U21 | 14 | (2) |
| 2016– | Germany | 13 | (1) |
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:21, 22 April 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:10, 26 March 2017 (UTC) |
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Joshua Kimmich (born 8 February 1995) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bayern Munich and the German national team.
Kimmich played youth football for VfB Stuttgart before joining RB Leipzig in July 2013. VfB Stuttgart secured an option to rebuy. He made his 3. Liga debut for the club on 28 September of that year, as a substitute for Thiago Rockenbach in a 2–2 draw with SpVgg Unterhaching. He scored his first professional goal in an 3–2 win against 1. FC Saarbrücken on 30 November 2013.
On 2 January 2015, Kimmich agreed to join Bayern Munich on a five-year contract, for a reported fee of €7 million. He made his debut for the club on 9 August, starting in the first round of the DFB-Pokal against FC Nöttingen. His Bundesliga debut came the following month on 12 September when entered play as a late substitute at home against FC Augsburg. Four days later, Kimmich made his first appearance in the UEFA Champions League in Bayern's tournament opener away at Olympiakos and he started in the Bundesliga for the first time three days thereafter, playing 90 minutes against SV Darmstadt 98 in a 3–0 win.
Kimmich ended his first season at Bayern having made 23 league appearances, included in which were 15 starts. He also played the full 120 minutes in Bayern's 2016 DFB-Pokal Final defeat of Borussia Dortmund at the Berlin Olympiastadion on 21 May.
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