Karim Adeyemi

Karim Adeyemi
Adeyemi with Red Bull Salzburg in 2022
Personal information
Full name Karim-David Adeyemi[1]
Date of birth (2002-01-18) 18 January 2002 (age 22)
Place of birth Munich, Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Position(s) Winger, forward
Team information
Current team
 Borussia Dortmund
Number 27
Youth career
2008–2010 TSV Forstenried
2010–2012 Bayern Munich
2012–2018 SpVgg Unterhaching
2018–2020 Red Bull Salzburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2022 Red Bull Salzburg 68 (27)
2018–2020 → Liefering (loan) 35 (15)
2022– Borussia Dortmund 42 (9)
International career‡
2018 Germany U16 6 (2)
2018–2019 Germany U17 7 (3)
2021– Germany U21 4 (0)
2021– Germany 4 (1)
Medal record
Representing  Germany
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Winner 2021
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:41, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:05, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Karim-David Adeyemi (born 18 January 2002) is a German professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward 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 FC Bayern München 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.[3] 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 FC Red Bull Salzburg where he signed a three-year contract.[4] 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 Austria Lustenau, where he played the full game as Liefering lost 1–0.[5] On 1 December 2020, he scored his first Champions League goal in a 3–1 away win over Lokomotiv Moscow during the 2020–21 season.[6]

Borussia Dortmund

On 10 May 2022, Adeyemi was announced to have joined Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund on a deal until the summer of 2027.[7] On 5 October, he scored his first Champions League goal with Borussia Dortmund in a 4–1 away win over Sevilla.[8] 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 first leg.[9] On 30 March 2024, he scored the opening goal in a 2–0 away win over Bayern Munich, to be his club's first victory in Der Klassiker since 2019 and the first win at Allianz Arena in 10 years.[10]

Speed

Playing for Dortmund, in February 2023, Adeyemi was recorded as the Bundesliga's fastest-ever player at 36.65 km/h (22.7 mph).[11]

International career

Adeyemi was born in Munich, Germany, to a Nigerian father and Romanian mother.[12] 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 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification 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.[13] 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.[14]

In November 2022, he was named in the German squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[15] However, he did not feature in any match, as Germany were knocked out at the group stage.[16]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 16 April 2024[17]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
FC Liefering (loan) 2018–19 2. Liga 20 6 — — 20 6
2019–20 14 9 — — 14 9
2020–21 1 0 — — 1 0
Total 35 15 — — 35 15
Red Bull Salzburg 2019–20 Austrian Bundesliga 10 1 1 0 1[b] 0 12 1
2020–21 29 7 4 1 5[c] 1 38 9
2021–22 29 19 5 0 10[d] 4 44 23
Total 68 27 10 1 16 5 94 33
Borussia Dortmund 2022–23 Bundesliga 24 6 2 1 6[d] 2 32 9
2023–24 18 3 1 0 9[d] 2 28 5
Total 42 9 3 1 15 4 60 14
Career total 145 51 13 2 31 9 189 62
  1. ^ Includes Swiss Cup, DFB-Pokal
  2. ^ Appearance in UEFA Europa League
  3. ^ Three appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
  4. ^ a b c Appearances in UEFA Champions League

International

As of match played 11 June 2022[18]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Germany
2021 4 1
Total 4 1
As of match played 11 October 2021. Germany score listed first, score column indicates score after each Adeyemi goal.[18]
List of international goals scored by Karim Adeyemi
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 5 September 2021 Mercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart, Germany  Armenia 6–0 6–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Red Bull Salzburg

Germany U21

Individual

References

  1. ^ Karim Adeyemi at WorldFootball.net Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Karim Adeyemi". Borussia Dortmund. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  3. ^ Hummel, Thomas (12 August 2019). "Wie ein Talent aus Unterhaching zum Millionengeschäft wurde". sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Servus in Salzburg, Karim Adeyemi!". redbullsalzburg.at. FC Red Bull Salzburg. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Austria Lustenau vs. Liefering - Liefering - 1 September 2018 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Lokomotiv Moskva 1–3 Salzburg". UEFA. 1 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Borussia Dortmund: Karim Adeyemi wechselt von RB Salzburg zum BVB". Der Spiegel (in German). 23 April 2022. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Borussia Dortmund triumphiert in Sevilla" (in German). ZDF. 5 October 2022.
  9. ^ "Karim Adeyemi's superb solo strike leaves Chelsea's hopes in balance". The Guardian. 15 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Bayern Munich 0–2 Borussia Dortmund". BBC Sport. 30 March 2024.
  11. ^ "Borussia Dortmund's Karim Adeyemi sets new all-time Bundesliga speed record". 7 February 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  12. ^ Thomas Hummel (31 October 2018). "Wie ein Talent aus Unterhaching zum Millionengeschäft wurde". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  13. ^ "FIFA". fifa.com.
  14. ^ Haider, Thomas. "Herkunft, Bayern-Zeit & schneller als Bolt – Deutschlands neues Sturm-Juwel Karim Adeyemi" (in German). Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  15. ^ "Flick beruft Moukoko, Füllkrug und Götze in WM-Kader" (in German). German Football Association. 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  16. ^ "No show Adeyemi: Nigerian descent makes no impact as Germany crash out of FIFA World Cup". soccernet.ng. December 2022.
  17. ^ "K. Adeyemi". Soccerway. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  18. ^ a b Karim Adeyemi at Soccerway Edit this at Wikidata
  19. ^ "Germany beat Portugal for third U21 EURO title". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  20. ^ "Goldene Fritz-Walter-Medaillen an Brand, Adeyemi und Moukoko" (in German). DFB. 9 November 2022.
  21. ^ "Fritz-Walter-Medaille in Gold an Kühn, Bühl und Adeyemi" (in German). German Football Association. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  22. ^ "Team der Saison - ADMIRAL Bundesliga". Bundesliga.at. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  23. ^ "Bundesliga Rookie Award". Bundesliga.com. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  24. ^ "Karim Adeyemi named 2022/2023 Rookie of the Season". Borussia Dortmund. 18 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  25. ^ "IFFHS Men's World Youth (U20) Team 2022". IFFHS. 12 January 2023.

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