Sonny Kittel (born 6 January 1993) is a German

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who plays as an

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for

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club Hamburger SV.

Career

After winning the German U17 championship with

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in June 2010, Kittel was capped in the professional squad for the 2010–11 season. In Eintracht's first competitive match at

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he was substituted. In the first 2010–11 home match he was also given some game time when he was substituted on for Caio in the 84th minute. After playing for

side

FC Ingolstadt Fußball-Club Ingolstadt 2004 e.V., commonly known as FC Ingolstadt 04 or FC Ingolstadt, is a German football club based in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. The club was founded in 2004 out of the merger of the football sides of two other clubs: ESV Ingols ...

for three seasons, Kittel transferred to Hamburger SV on 18 June 2019, signing a four year-contract.

International career

Kittel presented the Germany national youth football team on U16, U17, U18 and U20 level. In December 2017 he expressed his desire to play for the

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as his parents come from Poland.

Honours

Individual * Fritz Walter Medal U18 Silver:

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* * 1993 births Living people German footballers Germany youth international footballers Association football midfielders VfB Marburg players Eintracht Frankfurt players Eintracht Frankfurt II players FC Ingolstadt 04 players Hamburger SV players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players German people of Polish descent {{germany-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub