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Numerous hopeful talents will not only fight for the title at the U17 European Championship in Albania in the next two weeks at the U17 European Championship in Albania. One of them is the 17 -year -old Frammersbacher Lennart Karl from FC Bayern Munich. Transfer market spoke to the Youngster about his ambitions for the tournament and looks into detail about the development of the offensive midfielder, whose star rises in the 2024/25 season and for which numerous experts predict a great future.
37 scorers in 17 games. 27 goals, 10 assists. A balance sheet in which you look at first two times before realizing their scope. It is the performance data of the Munich Youngster Lennart Karl in the newly created U17 youth league. The numbers illustrate why the left foot from Lower Franconia has been occupied with numerous advance laurels in the past few months. His premature leap into the U19 of FC Bayern and the professionals Karl recently sniffed several times with the start of the second half of the season-including the master celebration last weekend in the Allianz Arena and the first Bundesliga minutes against TSG Hoffenheim.
“He has all the way to win a title in the next few weeks. He is the next step for him as a U17 player. He is a super young, very pleasant in everyday life and stays on the floor. I thought in between: how will it be when he gets up? How does he get there? This is not easy for young boys, he is really great every day, he is really great every day, he is really great I think it is unequivocal from us, ”said the former Bundesliga coach and NLZ boss of the Munich Markus Weinzierl in the“ evening newspaper ”.
The youngster himself, who is aiming for the secondary school leaving certificate away from the soccer field next year, encounters the hustle and bustle with serenity. “I perceive that, of course, but I don’t let it be influenced. In an interview on the channels of the FCB.
Celebrated the championship title with the professionals of FC Bayern: U17-Youngster Lennart Karl.
But what exactly is it that the midfielder makes one of the most promising talents in German football? Transfer market asked Bayern’s U19 coach Peter Gaydarov. “Lennart Karl is characterized by outstanding technical skills that he continuously developed at a high level. In the course of 2025, he not only made significant progress in his athletic dynamics, but also in his personal development. His quick adaptation to the level of professional training underlines his ability to learn and since then. Defensive, in the switching game and in dribbling.
Under Gaydarov, Karl ran nine times for the U19 in the second half of the current season – and scored seven goals. However, he was also unable to prevent the bitter from the youngsters from the youngsters ‘youngsters’ in the semi-finals of the German A-Junior Championship against Bayer 04 Leverkusen (3: 4 after extra time). With the U17 of the record champion, for whom he is still eligible, he could then take his first national title in June. The team of coach Patrick Kaniuth meets Borussia Mönchengladbach in the semi -finals of the German championship.
Lennart Karl in focus: “The consultants were certainly in line”
If you listen to the Bayern talent at Kaniuth, he also gets raving: “He has a high density of action and wants to make a difference with every action. Lennart wants to decide games. He has a very good degree and generally a strong left foot. When he is on the ball, you automatically bend to the front and know: Now something happens,” said the FCB coach at “Spox”. Karl always demands the ball, a property that makes him “automatically a leading player”.
While the youngster was mostly used in the offensive center in the first half of the season, he has also been increasingly over the right side in Gaydarovs U19 in the past few weeks. “In the right halfway with short paths into the box”, Kaniuth Karl also sees the strongest. The trainer, who also has nuances of Martin Ødegaard, describes him as a mix of Michael Olise and Arjen Robben. Karl also calls the Norwegian playmaker from FC Arsenal on the question of his football role model: “He is also left foot, plays on the playmaker position, has a good overview and a good end. Enter and play for the club in the Champions League one day. ”
Against Inter Milan, Karl was already in the premier class in the Bayern coach Vincent Kompany. It remains to be seen whether he will go a similar way to Ødegaard. The midfielder’s contract is dated on Säbener Straße until 2026. Quite a few trust him to jump to the professionals soon. Kaniuth describes Karl as a very ripe for his young age. During the collaboration in the U16, there were “a few friction points”: “I felt that he did not work on the limit and thus also stained on his colleagues. Then I sent him to the cabin during a unit, after the training we would speak. Behind my action there was also a bit of calculation: How did he react to something like that? afterwards and I found his teachings out of it.
Lennart Karl during the quarterfinals of the 2025 A-Junior Championship against Borussia Dortmund.
Bavaria’s coaching legend Hermann Gerland, now in the service of the DFB, was recently impressed by the abundance of talents that are currently frolicking in the youngsters in Munich. NLZ boss Weinzierl was similar and broke a lance for his young players with a view to the permeability to the professionals using the example of Karls: “On the one hand, we need the quality on the campus. In my opinion, it is getting bigger. Lennart is an example with our 2008s who is really one of several who can do it. And then it is the case that the boys also need the chance. If there are 30 superstars, it is very easy for the young.
FC Bayern is in the TOP-5 within the Bundesliga in its own grown statistics at the transfer market. Only TSG Hoffenheim (9), SC Freiburg (8), Borussia Dortmund and Mainz 05 (7 each) have more players from their own young talent in the professional squad than the new German champion with six. Among them Thomas Müller, who will no longer be there from summer. Most recently, the path to more game practice at a higher level at Bayern talents such as Paul Wanner often led over early borrowing to secondary or Bundesliga clubs.
By the way, Karl is advised by ex-Bavaria professional Michael Ballack. “He decided to work with Ballack because he helps him on a special level. Lennart can benefit from Ballack’s experience very much. Few can explain mentality better than he.
Lennart Karl about the U17 European Championship: “I really feel like the tournament”
The latter will also do the scouts and observers of numerous international clubs at the U17 European Championship, where Karl should be on the piece anyway. The ambitious talent, according to its own statements, took extra lides on the Bayern campus in the run-up to the season, which paid off, recorded five scorer points in the past international game for the U17 national team. With seven goals, he led the Europe-wide qualifying scorer list.
Could look forward to a great future: Bayern Munich’s youngster Lennart Karl.
Now the youngster wants to reward himself with the best possible result with the German selection at the final round in Albania. On Monday evening (from 8:30 p.m. live in the TM ticker), France is the first hard chunk for the DFB team. Karl told the transfer market: “I really feel like the tournament. Together with the team, I will give everything from the first to last game to bring the title to Germany. We have a special atmosphere in the team – we also want to show that through our performance.”