Delivery room instead of DFB team
Kimmich becomes a father and lets Flick wait
03/21/2022, 3:38 p.m
Joshua Kimmich is becoming a father for the third time, which has priority over the first international football match of the year. Due to the upcoming birth, the Bayern professional is transferring national coach Hansi Flick. But he should travel to the DFB team as soon as possible.
The start of the national soccer team in the World Cup year must initially take place without Joshua Kimmich. The 27-year-old FC Bayern Munich midfielder did not travel to the DFB team’s meeting point at the team hotel in Neu-Isenburg this Monday, where the DFB selection is preparing for the upcoming international matches against Israel and in the Netherlands. According to information from the DFB, Kimmich and his partner are expecting their third child together these days.
“Jo is an absolute family man. The birth of a child is a very special moment in life. We hope that if everything goes well, he will be with us soon,” said national coach Hansi Flick in the DFB announcement. The national team will play their first friendly against Israel in Sinsheim on Saturday. The classic international match against the Netherlands takes place in Amsterdam three days later (both 8.45 p.m. in the ntv.de live ticker) instead of. Without Kimmich, the DFB squad initially consists of 24 players, before him the Salzburg attacking man Karim Adeyemi had to cancel.
Kimmich had already missed the last two World Cup qualifiers in November 2021. At that time, after a corona infection from Bayern colleague Niklas Süle, he had to leave the DFB quarter as an unvaccinated contact person. Now he should have been back in the squad for the first time as midfield boss after, as he himself put it, “abandoned” his team-mates. The 64-time national player is a fixture in Flick’s plans for the World Cup at the end of the year.