Bayern Munich midfielder Joshua Kimmich is now 29, approaching that line where footballers have to start thinking about how, and whether, to keep playing for as long as possible.
Kimmich, though, came up in the Manuel Neuer and Thomas Müller mentorship group of playing forever.
“In my dream world, I’m now in the middle of my career, so I still have ten good years ahead of me,” Kimmich said with a laugh in his BR24 interview at the end of September (captured via @iMiaSanMia). “It’s very nice to see where my hard work has taken me. And I hope I’m not done yet.”
Kimmich has certainly been active in adjusting his game in recent years — owing also to a series of coaching changes, from Hansi Flick to Julian Nagelsmann to Thomas Tuchel to Vincent Kompany, that have all asked slightly different roles of him, whether for Bayern or the German men’s national team. And the new national team captain’s drive is legendary.
If anyone can make it work for another ten years, it will be Kimmich.
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