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One of many U.S. males’s nationwide workforce’s promising left backs is on his technique to the German Bundesliga.
John Tolkin has joined Holstein Kiel in a everlasting switch from the New York Crimson Bulls for an undisclosed price, each golf equipment introduced Thursday. Tolkin left USMNT January camp with the intention to full the transfer.
The Crimson Bulls will retain a sell-on share, ought to Holstein Kiel switch Tolkin sooner or later.
“With John Tolkin, we’ve been in a position to signal a participant who’s already skilled regardless of his age for our left aspect,” mentioned sporting director of KSV Carsten Wehlmann. “Along with his qualities, he suits precisely into our requirement profile. We’re satisfied that he’ll shortly acclimatise with us and combine into the workforce.”
Tolkin, 22, got here by way of the Crimson Bulls academy earlier than debuting for the primary workforce in 2021. The New Jersey-born fullback delivered eight targets and 15 assists in 124 mixed league appearances.
Tolkin earned MLS All-Star honors in 2023 whereas additionally incomes his USMNT debut that very same 12 months. A former USYNT standout, Tolkin will now have an early alternative to characteristic in one in every of Europe’s high 5 leagues.
“The German Bundesliga is among the high leagues and might be a giant problem for me, which I’m very a lot wanting ahead to,” Tolkin mentioned. “My purpose is to reach right here as shortly as doable and get to know my workforce with the intention to play my half in a profitable second half of the season.”
Holstein Kiel sit seventeenth within the Bundesliga standings and subsequent faces Hoffenheim in a bottom-three conflict on Saturday.
