Striker Tim Kleindinst, who was waiting in his late 20s, sharpened his scoring sense ahead of his debut in the German national team.
Augsburg, which played the sixth round of the 2024-2025 German Bundesliga at WWK Arena in Augsburg, Germany, won 2-1 over Borussia Mönchengladbach on the 5th (Korea time).
Although Mönchengladbach was defeated, striker Kleindinst scored a goal in the 27th minute of the second half with the help of Kevin Stueger. He continued his consistent scoring at the beginning of the season with three goals and one assist.
Kleindinst has been selected for the German national team, which has many players who have been called up and debuted early. Germany will play at the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Nations League games against Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday and the Netherlands on Thursday. Two of the first players to be called up are striker Kleindinst and midfielder Jamie Reveling (Schutgart). Reveling is a 23-year-old promising player, but Kleindinst is 29 years old. Oliver Baumann, the goalkeeper, has been consistently selected as a candidate, but this time he will make his A-match debut as three players without A-match experience have been called up due to injuries to existing goalkeepers. Baumann is expected to make his debut at the age of 34.
Kleindinst is a player who has taken a long time to stand out. He started his career in the third division and had already entered the Bundesliga as a member of Freiburg in the 2017-2018 season, but he couldn't take advantage of it even though he had a chance to play. He went back to the second division of Germany and grew slowly. He scored 14 goals in the second division of the 2019-2020 season, and based on this achievement, Belgium's Hent recruited him, but he was sluggish again. After scoring 11 goals in the second division of the 2020-2021 season, his scoring ability has grown significantly to 10 goals in the next season and 25 goals in the following season. Based on this, he was promoted with Heidenheim and returned to the Bundesliga for the first time in a long time.
Kleindinst, who took charge of the front line of Heidenheim in the 2023-2024 season, showed that he has grown into a striker who is well known in the Bundesliga. He has displayed compliance with 12 goals in the league. As a player who is 194 centimeters tall and armed with mobility, he made good use of his physical ability to finish the game. Notably, he made a strong impression by scoring two goals in the last minute when he secured a 3-2 come-from-behind victory against Bayern Munich at the end of the season. 메이저놀이터
Even after moving to Mönchengladbach this season, he played immediately without adaptation and was selected as the club's "Player of August."
The German national team's strikers this time are Kai Havertz, Serge Gnabry, Dennis Undaf, and Kleindinst. Compared to Havertz, who has a tendency to play midfielders, Gnabry, and relatively small and fast Undaf, Kleindinst is the only tall front-line resource.