Karim-David Adeyemi (born 18 January 2002) is a German professional footballer who plays as a winger,

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or attacking-midfielder for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Germany national team.

Club career

Red Bull Salzburg

Adeyemi played as a youth for TSV Forstenried, and at the age of eight he joined local Bundesliga side

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in 2010. Due to an impasse in negotiating his continued stay at the club, there was a dispute and Adeyemi eventually had to leave the club, which meant that he joined SpVgg Unterhaching in 2012. After progressing through the youth departments, he made his debut in March 2018 for the U19 team in the '' A-Junioren-Bundesliga'' (Under 19 Bundesliga). He scored his first goal in this league in April 2018 in a 2–3 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt U19. With Unterhaching, he suffered relegation to the '' A-Jugend Bayernliga'' (Under 19 Bayernliga) at the end of the season. Prior to the 2018–19 season, Adeyemi was signed by Austrian club

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where he signed a three-year contract. He was subsequently loaned out to their feeder club FC Liefering for the season. Adeyemi made his 2. Liga debut on 1 September 2018 against

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, where he played the full game as Liefering lost 1–0. On 1 December 2020, he scored his first Champions League goal in a 3–1 away win over Lokomotiv Moscow during the

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season.

Borussia Dortmund

On 10 May 2022, Adeyemi was announced to have joined Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund on a deal until the summer of 2027. On 5 October, he scored his first Champions League goal with Borussia Dortmund in a 4–1 away win over Sevilla. On 15 February 2023, he scored the only goal from a solo strike in a 1–0 victory over Chelsea in the Champions League round of 16.

International career

Adeyemi was born in Munich, Germany, to a Nigerian father and Romanian mother. He is a youth international for Germany, having represented the Germany under-16s, under-17s and under-21s. He made his debut for the Germany senior team in a 6–0

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win over Armenia on 5 September 2021, coming on as a late substitute and scoring his side's sixth goal in the first minute of second-half injury time. As Adeyemi was a Red Bull Salzburg player on his debut, this marked the first time in the post-war period that a player from an Austrian club played a match for the German senior national team. In November 2022, he was named in the German squad for the

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in Qatar. However, he did not feature in any match, as Germany were knocked out at the group stage.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''As of match played 11 October 2021. Germany score listed first, score column indicates score after each Adeyemi goal.''

Honours

Red Bull Salzburg *

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: 2019–20,

, 2021–22 *

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: 2019–20,

, 2021–22 Germany U21 * UEFA European Under-21 Championship:

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Individual * Fritz Walter Medal U19 Gold:

* Fritz Walter Medal U17 Gold:

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Top goalscorer: 2021–22 *

Team of the Year: 2021–22 * Bundesliga Rookie of the Month: January 2023 * Bundesliga Rookie of the Season:

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* IFFHS Men's World Youth (U20) Team: 2022

References

External links

Profile
at the Borussia Dortmund website *
Database4football Profile
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