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Football star İlkay Gündoğan has become a father for the second time
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The former captain of the German national football team, İlkay Gündoğan, hovers in the baby happiness: his wife Sara gave birth to the second child together.
Football professional İlkay Gündoğan and his wife Sara announced the birth of their second child on Instagram. “Our little princess. Ella Gundogan,” wrote the 29-year-old about three photos with the newborn. The former captain of the German national team also shared the mail. Already in September the couple had made the second pregnancy public with baby bump pictures. “We dream of you”, on which they posed with their son Kais born in 2023. After the birth of her son and revealed the name of her offspring.
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In the current picture you can see little quay how he lovingly holds his sister in his arms. The second snapshot seems to have been made in the hospital shortly after birth. And on the third recording, Baby Ella holds her little hands in front of your face. Many celebrity colleagues like Ann-Kathrin Götze or Alicia Andrich, wife of footballer Robert Andrich, congratulated in the comments. Gündoğan’s former Barcelona coach Xavi also congratulated the offspring.
İlkay Gündoğan about balancing act between family and football
As part of the domestic European Championship, İlkay Gündoğan chatted in an interview with the “Bild am Sonntag” about the balancing act between life as a family man and as a football player: “It’s not that easy. […] The little one shouldn’t have to sit on the plane every week or spend the night in hotels. Fortunately, there are things like FaceTime nowadays – of course that does not begin to replace the personal closeness, but I can still speak to my wife every day and also see the little ones. “
From the boy from Gelsenkirchen to the head of the national team
Shortly before the jump to the A team: In March 2011, Gündoğan still appeared for the U21 in the friendly against Italy
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Although the football star has Turkish roots, there is another “official language” at Gündoğan, he continued. “We both try to focus in English.” In addition to his own origin, this is also due to his wife: “My wife’s mother tongue is French, but she also speaks Italian because she has lived and worked in Italy for years. And I come from a German-Turkish budget. All only Spanish. Since the summer of 2024, Gündoğan has been playing again in the English Premier League at the top club Manchester City after a one -year intermezzo at FC Barcelona. Gündoğan resigned from the German national soccer team in the summer of 2024 after the European Championship in Germany.
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