Biography
Jozua Kimmich is a German football player, the right defender of the German national team and the Munich club "Bavaria". The athlete is a universal player, it is put on the position of the support midfielder and in the defense line.Childhood and youth
Yozua Walter Kimmich was born on February 8, 1995 in the city of Rottweil, Germany. His mother Anya and Father Bertold lived in the village of Besingen under Stuttgart. Here, the future athlete studied in high school and became interested in football. As a child, the boy trained in his backyard, breaking the windows in the house, which parents were surprisingly patiently.
In the end, the father supplied the guys with old soccer balls and sent to engage in the wasteland. There, the potential champion studied correctly, imitating his idol, - Zingenina Zidan, Bastian Schweinsteger and Tomasa Rositsky.
Football
The desire to get into professional sport prompted the guy to sign up to the local club. He played his youth football for Bezingen until 2007, before at the age of 12 he joined the youth composition of Stuttgart, where he stayed from 2007 to 2013.At the age of 14, the young man made his debut in the match for the Junior team of Germany, performing in a friendly meeting against Azerbaijan. The next 2 years also caused it to the team, and in 2013, playing against France, the football player scored the decisive goal. He then hit the European Championship, which was held in Hungary, where in the finals Germany beat Portugal.
In the same year, the player concluded a contract with Leipzig. Stuttgart received for a talented athlete € 500 thousand. Playing for "bulls" more than fifty matches, Jozua attracted the attention of the scouts of the Grande clubs. Back in early 2015, it became known that the football player will again change registration. In the summer, Kimmich, indeed, moved to Munich Bavaria.
The trainer of the club Pep Guardiola appreciated the quality of his games and versatility, which manifested almost immediately, so Jozua spoke in his first season at different positions. The first release of the defender on the field in Munich took place on September 12 against "Nottingken-1957" in the 1st round of the German Cup. Then the football player played in Bundeslig against the "Augsburg", coming down to replace. For the whole season he spent 23 matches.
The first goal in the 2016/17 season, the player scored "Schalke" in the outcast meeting. And in the Champions League, he successfully opposed "Rostov" (5: 0) on Allianz Arena. As a result, with the departure of Philip Lama Kimmich, it was able to book a place in the starting lineup of Bavaria.
In the German national team, Jozua made his debut in the summer of 2016, and in September he scored the first goal for Bundestim in the gate of Norway. Following Kimmich included in the composition of the 2017 Confederations Cup. By the way, he was the only "Bavarians" who appeared on the field in all 5 match of the tournament. On July 2, 2017, the German national team won the Confederations Cup by defeating Chile in the final.
In 2018, Yoachim Lyv invited the player to participate in the World Cup in Russia. There, the athlete performed in all 3 games of the group stage, but the competition themselves were for the Germans failed.
In the same year, the defender extended his contract with Munich until June 30, 2023.
Kimmich spent his hundredth match for Bavaria on February 9, 2019, having met "Schalke".
Personal life
Jozua and his girlfriend Lina Meyer do not advertise moments of personal life. About the girl who is older athlete for 3 years, it is known only that she is from Lower Saxony and studied the right.
Sometimes the press penetrate information about especially important changes in the family and in the biography of its members. For example, the athlete and his companion will become parents.
Embed from getty imagesFans are unknown whether Lina is the official wife of a football player, and they learned about the birth of children in June 2019 and in October 2020. Young people and now rarely frankly with journalists and infrequently publish photos in their instagram accounts.
By the way, the female half of the fans of the defender "Bavaria" liked the changes in the appearance of the idol after quarantine: Jozua reflected the mustache and once again updated the hairstyle.
German growth 178 cm, weight - 73 kg. According to TRANSFERMARKT, the price of the player is € 85 million, and its salary - € 148 thousand per week.
Joseua Kimmich now
In the semifinals of the Champions League, the football player brought the team by sending in March 2020 the only ball into the gate "Schalke". In the same way, he was able to score the Borussia goal in May. In August, the Bavarians in the hot battle beat "Paris Saint-Germain", thereby woning and confirming their status of the favorites of the season. The received Champions Cup for the team became sixth.In October 2020, Bavaria won among the Moscow "Locomotive": the decisive goal in the 2nd half scored Kimmich. In an interview, the athlete noticed that the match was hard for his team: the Russians arranged a series of counterattacks, which were not easy to confront.
Among the "Bavaria" matches of 2020, which also distinguished the Yozua, you can call games with Barcelona, Hoffenheim and Borussia. Not all of them were victorious for Germans, but the player then did what he depended. In a meeting with the Dortmund team in early November, Kimmich was injured and hit the operation. Until January 2021, he banned doctors on the field.
During a pandemic, an athlete, together with Leon Goretsky, became the initiator of the share of We Kick Corona: Football players sacrificed social and charitable institutions € 1 million. Means are intended to help need, for the purchase of medical equipment in hospitals or payment of donation.
Achievements
- 2016-2020 - Champion of Germany
- 2016, 2019, 2020 - German Cup owner
- 2016-2018, 2020 - Garden Super Cup winner
- 2018 - the best player of the 2017/2018 season in Germany
- 2020 - Winner of UEFA Champions League
- 2020 - UEFA Super Cup winner
- 2020 - Best Defender of the Year FIFA