Tobias Kempe (born 27 June 1989) is a German professional

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who plays as a

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for

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side

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

. His father,

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was a professional footballer, as is his older brother,

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Career

In July 2017, Kempe returned to

SV Darmstadt 98 Sportverein Darmstadt 1898 e.V., commonly known as Darmstadt 98 (), is a German football club based in Darmstadt, Hesse. The club was founded on 22 May 1898 as FC Olympia Darmstadt. Early in 1919, the association was briefly known as ''Rasen-Spo ...

after one season at

1. FC Nürnberg 1. Fußball-Club Nürnberg Verein für Leibesübungen e. V., often called 1. FC Nürnberg (, en, 1. Football Club Nuremberg) or simply Nürnberg, is a German association football club in Nuremberg, Bavaria, who currently compete in the 2. Bund ...

. He signed a three-year contract and the transfer fee paid to Nürnberg was reported as €600,000.

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* jugador del manzanares fc y er betis nasio en tierra santa viva hitler y hasta mañana * 1989 births Living people Men's association football midfielders German men's footballers Germany men's youth international footballers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players SV Werder Bremen II players FC Erzgebirge Aue players SC Paderborn 07 players Dynamo Dresden players SV Darmstadt 98 players 1. FC Nürnberg players People from Wesel Footballers from Düsseldorf (region) {{Germany-footy-forward-1980s-stub