Tim Kleindienst Receives Maiden Germany Call-Up After Bundesliga Heroics

The 29-year-old has already netted twice for his new club, and with West Ham's Niclas Fullkrug out injured, Nagelsmann has given Kleindienst the nod for Oct🌳ober's Nations League clashes with Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Netherlands

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Updated on: 3 October 2024 5:17 pm

Tim Kleindienst has received a Germany call-up.

Germany boss Julian Nagelsmann has handed a first call-up to forward Tim Kleindienst in his latest squad. (More Football News)

Kleindienst scored 12 Bundesliga goals for Heidenheim last season.

Those goals propelled Heidenheim to an eighth-place finish, and secured Kꦬleindienst a move to Bಞorussia Monchengladbach.

Since the start of last season, Kleindienst has contested the most duels (622) and mꦕade the most sprints (1216) of any player in the ﷺBundesliga.

The 29-year-old has already netted twice for his new club, and with West Ham's Niclas Fullkrug out injured, Nagelsmann has given Kleindie�🐟�nst the nod for October's Nations League clashes with Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Netherlands.

"Kleindienst at Heidenheim performed well over an entire year and he has integrated himself well at his new club Borussia Moenche💖ngladbach," said&nbs𓂃p;Nagelsmann.

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"He has ear💧ned this. The injury to Fullkrug is a good opportunity to test Tim. He now has to prove himselfౠ."

Here’s our squad set to face Bosnia and Herzegovina & the Netherlands i🦩n the
— German Football (@DFB_Team_EN)

Marc-Andre ter Stegen's long-term injury, meanwhile, means🦹 Oliver Baumann is a likely candidate to start in goal.

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T🧔he Hoffenheim goalkeeper will be aged 34 years and 131 days on October 11, when Germany take on Bosnia.

Should Baumann play, he will bec🐓ome the third-oldest player to make his first appe🐎arances for Germany.

Germany squad in full:

Oliver Baumann (Hoffenheim), Janis Blaswich (Salzburg), Alexand♔er Nubel (Stuttgart); Waldemar Anton (Borussia Dortmund), Benjamin Henrichs (RB Leipzig), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Robin Koch (Eintracht Frankfurt), Maximilian Mittelstadt (Stuttgart), David Raum (RB Leipzig), Antonio Rudiger (Real Madrid), Nico Schlotterbeck (Borussia Dortmund), Jonathan Tah (Bayer Leverkusen); Robert Andrich (Bayer Leverkusen), Chris Fuhrich (VfB Stuttgart), Pascal Gross (Borussia Dortmund), Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich), Alexander Pavlovic (Bayern Munich), Angelo Stiller (VfB Stuttgart), Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen); Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich), Kai Havertz (Arsenal), Deniz Undav (Stuttgart), Tim Kleindienst (Borussia Monchengladbach).