{"id":16283,"date":"2025-06-25T23:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nick-woltemade-who-is-stuttgart-striker-banging-in-goals-for-germany-u21s\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T23:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:06:57","slug":"nick-woltemade-who-is-stuttgart-striker-banging-in-goals-for-germany-u21s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nick-woltemade-who-is-stuttgart-striker-banging-in-goals-for-germany-u21s\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Woltemade: Who is Stuttgart striker banging in goals for Germany U21s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woltemade started his career with Werder Bremen, coming through their youth teams, but had only scored two goals in 51 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent the 2022-23 season on loan in the third tier with Elversberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the striker rejected the offer of a new Bremen contract last summer before a free-transfer move to Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His time there started slowly &#8211; and he was not named in their Champions League squad &#8211; but he has become a prolific goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has bagged 17 goals in 33 games (22 starts) for the Bundesliga side &#8211; including in each of his past four matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woltemade was named newcomer of the season by the VDV, the German professional footballers&#8217; union, despite having already played 41 Bundesliga games for Bremen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That form has seen him most strongly linked to Chelsea &#8211; but also to Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton, Brighton and West Ham &#8211; and some of the continent&#8217;s top clubs too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c78n5d6jqgpo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woltemade started his career with Werder Bremen, coming through their youth teams, but had only scored two goals in 51 games. He spent the 2022-23 season on loan in the third tier with Elversberg. But the striker rejected the offer of a new Bremen contract last summer before a free-transfer move to Stuttgart. His time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283","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=16283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16285,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions\/16285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}