A Quote by Joshua Kimmich
My favorite position is in the center of the midfield, maybe the defensive midfield. I think I can play this position the best. I played there in my youth all the time, and I like to be in the center of the game because you're never standing still.
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My favourite position is in the midfield. I think I can play to my strengths there. I can communicate with every player. I'm more in the game, because as a right-back you have to stay on one side and you're not always in the game for 90 minutes. So I prefer the centre midfield position.
The manager might like it sometimes when I play up front because I can cause trouble for the defenders, but for me, my best position is defensive midfield, stopping the opposition, and then looking to impose myself on a game.
I prefer to play in midfield, whether that is attacking midfield or defensive midfield.
If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.
Defensive midfield can be the one position that's easier to play as you get older.
I've played all over, to be honest. Centre-half, defensive midfield, attacking midfield.
You cannot play the position Kroos plays in defensive midfield besides Luka Modric better than he does.
My position at Tottenham was in the centre of midfield, and I have played there for Croatia, I feel I am best there.
In the defensive midfield position, the player needs to give balance to the team and try to control the game. That's exactly what I try to do.
With Jose Mourinho and Rafael Benitez I played in midfield, so at that time I thought that was my position.
I have worked on my defense skills and played in the midfield as well. Coaches are preparing players to play at any given position.
When the manager asks me to play somewhere, I play there. But my best position is midfield.
Not many know this, but in training sessions, I like to play in the center-back position sometimes. I think I'm good at that position, and my father used to be a central defender. Some people don't realize that if you play in that position, you can better understand how the defender thinks.
It doesn't matter who you play against in midfield, you need to try to come out on top and more often than not when a team wins a midfield battle they normally have a good chance of winning the game because that's where a lot of the play goes through.
In the 1970s you would have had lots of black goalkeepers and defensive midfield players but never made it professionally because the perception was, 'You don't think too much, you can't play in positions of responsibility so you play on the wing or up front.' Lots were lost to the game because of the perception.
I am actually comfortable in every position in midfield. At Bayern Munich, I even played as a winger and sometimes a full-back, so I can play many different positions.
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