{"id":526107,"date":"2025-10-25T03:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526107\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T03:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:01:14","slug":"how-bayern-munichs-joshua-kimmich-keeps-tabs-on-his-germany-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526107\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bayern Munich\u2019s Joshua Kimmich keeps tabs on his Germany teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Germany captain Joshua Kimmich is a leader for club as well as country. That means once the international competitions come around on the calendar, some of his fiercest rivals in the Bundesliga and beyond become his comrades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So how does he balance the responsibilities of focusing on his Bayern Munich role for most of the season, while still building and maintaining those tight personal bonds necessary for the national team to gel?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe exchange is there. I also try to keep in touch with my teammates because ultimately, we\u2019re always a team, even if we don\u2019t see each other,\u201d Kimmich explained in comments for Welt AM Sonntag (as captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1976915805909483956\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s important to me that we stay in touch. Sometimes just a message is enough, even if some might ask, \u2018what does he want from me now?\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe may be rivals when we\u2019re at our clubs, but we need a strong sense of togetherness. Because that can be a real advantage for a team when it comes down to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany captain Joshua Kimmich is a leader for club as well as country. That means once the international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[25032,2000,299,129072,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-526107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bayern-munich-bundesliga","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-german-national-team-and-international-soccer","12":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115432579548573710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}