When Joshua Kimmich played his first tournament with the national team in 2016, Joachim Löw had been the national coach for ten years and Angela Merkel had been the chancellor for eleven years. There were certain continuities in the life of the relatively young 21-year-old Kimmich, which also included the fact that the professional footballer Kimmich also liked to do something that football fans usually indulge in: Panini trading cards.
