{"id":11837,"date":"2025-03-13T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/joshua-kimmich-bayern-midfielder-signs-contract-extension-until-2029\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:18:44","slug":"joshua-kimmich-bayern-midfielder-signs-contract-extension-until-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/joshua-kimmich-bayern-midfielder-signs-contract-extension-until-2029\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Kimmich: Bayern midfielder signs contract extension until 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bayern Munich midfielder Joshua Kimmich has signed a four-year contract extension to keep him at the club until 2029.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kimmich&#8217;s current deal was due to expire at the end of this season and he had been linked with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4g0z1jvxjwo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">move to Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old joined Bayern from RB Leipzig in 2015 and has made 429 appearances, scoring 43 goals and providing 115 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At FC Bayern I have the best environment to achieve my sporting goals. That is what my decision was based on,&#8221; Kimmich said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For me at the moment, there is no better package of team-mates, coaching staff and club environment in order to achieve maximum success. I feel at home here and I am not finished yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Germany captain Kimmich, who has 97 caps, has won eight Bundesliga titles and one Champions League with Bayern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has been a regular under Vincent Kompany this season, playing every minute in the Bundesliga until sustaining a minor thigh injury in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kimmich is the latest player at the club to sign a new contract this year, with Manuel Neuer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cew5eq7pr27o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Jamal Musiala<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c627ldk10dzo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Alphonso Davies<\/a> also extending their stays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bayern are top of the Bundesliga &#8211; eight points clear of defending champions Bayer Leverkusen &#8211; and will face Inter Milan in the Champions League quarter-finals, with the final set to take place in Munich in May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/crlxeex18x7o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich midfielder Joshua Kimmich has signed a four-year contract extension to keep him at the club until 2029. Kimmich&#8217;s current deal was due to expire at the end of this season and he had been linked with a move to Arsenal. The 30-year-old joined Bayern from RB Leipzig in 2015 and has made 429 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11839,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837\/revisions\/11839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}