Child question embarrasses Joshua Kimmich
After Joshua Kimmich answered all the reporters' questions seriously at the DFB press conference, he almost falls into the water with a children's question: It's about the jerseys of the national team - but also about a rumor about the right-back and FC Barcelona.
Joshua Kimmich sensed the danger. Children's questions, said the German football national player to a radio reporter who was on the way on behalf of young fans, "are usually the most dangerous ones." And that was true: Mia, eight years old and from the Bavarian Deggendorf, wanted to know from the Munich native: "Which jersey do you like best? The white or pink of the national team - or that of FC Barcelona?"
Kimmich, who has been courted by Barca for some time, laughed and said, "I don't believe it's children's questions." Kimmel David Raum next to him on the podium in the EM quarters of Herzogenaurach chuckled mischievously, the father of the child was "surely a reporter."
Kimmich doesn't get led astray
And the answer? Kimmich didn't get led astray, but revealed that he didn't like the colorful German away jersey "at first, I found it very habit-forming, I was more into the white." But his children loved the shirt, and the more pictures he saw of it, the more "it grew on me," said the 29-year-old.
Kimmich parried the other children's questions with a lot of humor. No, he didn't have to ask the national team coach "luckily" for permission if he wanted to stay up longer: "He knows that I always go to bed early." And is there chocolate on the DFB team? "We have one or two hiding places," said Kimmich and grinned.
At the press conference, Kimmich was also asked about Rudi Völler's double pack of 1988, who had brought the last victory at a tournament against the upcoming opponent Spain. At first, the right-back didn't even know that the last victory at a tournament was so long ago, but then he came up with a brilliant plan for Friday with a wink: "Maybe we can bring Rudi in, I'll ask him."
During the European Football Championship 2024 discussions, rumors surfaced about Joshua Kimmich and a potential move to FC Barcelona. Despite these transfer speculations, Kimmich is a loyal member of the German national soccer team, having been courted by Barca for some time. Rudi Völler, a former German national team coach and key player in the victorious 1988 team against Spain, was also mentioned at the press conference, with Kimmich jokingly suggesting that Völler might return to help tackle Spain in the upcoming tournament.
