German national team captain Joshua Kimmich is back playing right-back for his country. The Bayern Munich professional – famously ardent about the fact that he prefers to play in midfield – laughed off questions about Julian Nagelsmann’s decision to move him back to the defensive line last night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some 18 months ago, Kimmich returning to the right back role was absolutely not a laughing matter. Nagelsmann – some six months after taking the German national team job – once famously quipped that Kimmich had to “subordinate himself for country<\/em>“.<\/p>\n Kimmich nevertheless seemed to have no problems talking about his latest right-back deployment when speaking to journalists in the mixed zone after Germany’s 4-0 win over Luxembourg in a Sinsheim-hosted World Cup qualifier.\u00a0<\/p>\n Germany’s dire need at the right-back position<\/a> means that Kimmich must “subordinate<\/em>” his personal wishes once again. The now 30-year-old at least now knows how to maintain his sense of humor about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n “That’s great,<\/em>” Kimmich responded when a reporter pointed out that his latest move out of the midfield constituted a big topic. “That means you don’t have to ask any questions about it.<\/em>“<\/p>\n “In goal,<\/em>” Kimmich answered when the same reporter asked him what his favorite position to play in was.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kimmich then needed to wait a few seconds while the laughter among the assembled members died down.<\/p>\n “There’s no need for him [Nagelsmann] to make a [permanent] decision<\/em>,” Kimmich continued. “If he [Nagelsmann] needs me there for the team or for the [tactical] constellation, he doesn’t have to ask.<\/em><\/p>\n “He doesn’t have to make a decision,” <\/em>Kimmich concluded. “I can play in both positions. He can set it up in accordance with what’s needed against the opponent. Whatever is needed.<\/em>“<\/p>\n GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" German national team captain Joshua Kimmich laughed off questions about his return to the right-back role in the mixed zone last night.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":104414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,336],"tags":[3418,570,704,798,3554],"class_list":["post-104413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-die-mannschaft","category-bundesliga","category-fc-bayern-munich","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup-qualifying","tag-germany","tag-joshua-kimmich","tag-julian-nagelsmann","tag-luxembourg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104415,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104413\/revisions\/104415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}