Only one German played more often
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After the unsuccessful end of the season with the national team, defender Jonathan Tah (29) does not start on vacation, but immediately into his new future at Bayern. This Tuesday, the German record champions’ enthusiasm travels to the USA. Tahs already enormous game account this season will increase. Behind his new team -mate Joshua Kimmich (29) he collected the second most competitive games of all German football professionals since July 1 of last year.
“I am ready. I’m looking forward to it. It is a new situation for me because I come to a new team,” Tah said in the ARD interview after the 0: 2 in the game for third place with the DFB selection in Stuttgart against France.
Tah changes free from Bayer Leverkusen to Munich. Thanks to an extra transfer window of the FIFA, he can play at the club World Cup right from the start. In this regard, Bavaria and Bayer also reached a financial agreement that the Munich team costs at least 800,000 euros according to “Sky”. Without the special FIFA regulation and without the approval of the Leverkusenians, Tah’s use would have been in it at the beginning of the contract from July 1, at most from a possible quarter-finals. Such an agreement at Bayern is now also available with TSG Hoffenheim in the midfielder Tom Bischof (19), who is also free to transfer, who debuted against France in the national team. This was confirmed by the clubs on Monday.
Tah wants to hide the club World Cup strapazen
When asked about the exertion of 32 teams and four weeks of extensive club World Cup, Tah wasted. “I started football as a small child. I played outside every day. I didn’t even think about whether I was overloaded. And in this mindset I stay and have fun playing football,” he said. In the past season, Tah played around 4,400 minutes of deployment in 49 competitive games for Bayer Leverkusen and has also been used twelve times for the DFB team in including the European Championship since last summer. From July 1st, Tah came to Kimmich to 58 games with more than 5,100 minutes, second place from all Germans.
Bayern fly from Munich to Orlando on Tuesday afternoon. They move into their base camp in Florida. The German champion starts the XXL tournament in Cincinnati against Auckland City in Cincinnati against Auckland City in Cincinnati. Other group opponents are Boca Juniors from Argentina and Benfica Lisbon. Borussia Dortmund will only fly to the USA as the second German association among the 32 participants on Friday. The BVB contested its first club World Cup on June 17th.