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American Soccer Players in Germany: 2024/25 weekly update

01.02.2025

A healthy number of American nationals are currently on the books of soccer teams in Germany, including USMNT duo Joe Scally and Gio Reyna. bundesliga.com tracks their performances, week in, week out...

Joe Scally

Club: Borussia Mönchengladbach
Position: Full-back
Age: 22 (Born December 31, 2002)
Bundesliga games this season: 19
Starts: 18

2024/25

Now in his fourth full season with Gladbach, Scally is continuing as Gerardo Seoane's first-choice right-back in 2024/25.

Last matchday

Scally was back in the starting XI for Gladbach, playing the full 90 minutes in his side's 1-2 victory over Stuttgart on Matchday 20.

Watch: Bundesliga Beyond with Joe Scally

Gio Reyna

Club: Borussia Dortmund
Position: Attacking midfielder
Age: 22 (born November 13, 2002)
Bundesliga games this season: 10
Starts: 1
Goals: 2

2024/25

Reyna is back at Dortmund after spending the second half of last season on loan at English Premier League outfit Nottingham Forest.

Last matchday

Reyna came off the bench in Dortmund's 2-1 win away at Heidenheim on Matchday 20.

Watch: Reyna's best moments in the Bundesliga

Jordan

Club: Union Berlin
Position: Forward
Age: 28 (born April 26, 1996)
Bundesliga games this season: 17
Starts: 10

2024/25

Jordan scored seven goals in 27 competitive appearances whilst on loan at Gladbach last season, but is now back at Union, where he is among head coach Bo Svensson's options in attack.

Last matchday

Jordan started and played 60 minutes of Union's 3-0 loss away to St. Pauli on Matchday 19.

Jordan scored four goals in 31 Bundesliga appearances in his first season at Union Berlin in 2022/23. - xSebastianxRäppold/MatthiasxKochx

Lennard Maloney
Club: Heidenheim (joined Mainz on 21 January 2025)
Position: Midfielder
Age: 25 (born October 8, 1999)
Bundesliga games this season: 11
Starts: 10

2024/25

Formerly of Dortmund, Maloney quickly became a midfield mainstay and fan favourite at Heidenheim, before switching to Mainz during the January transfer window.

Last matchday

Maloney was named among the substitutes for Mainz's Matchday 20 trip to Bremen but did not make it off the bench.

Lennard Maloney was key to Heidenheim's impressive first season in the Bundesliga. - IMAGO/H. Langer

Kevin Paredes
Club: Wolfsburg
Position: Winger
Age: 21 (born May 7, 2003)
Bundesliga games this season: 0
Starts: 0

2024/25

Paredes scored three goals in 28 Bundesliga appearances for Wolfsburg in 2023/24, but missed the start of the new campaign with a foot problem.

Last matchday

Paredes is yet to play this season due to injury.

Kevin Paredes is hoping to up his first-team minutes under Ralph Hasenhüttl in 2024/25. - Oliver Hardt

Timothy Chandler
Club: Eintracht Frankfurt
Position: Full-back
Age: 34 (born 29 May, 1990)
Bundesliga games this season: 1
Starts: 0

2024/25

Chandler is in his 11th - and possibly final - season with Frankfurt. A bit-part player last term, the veteran full-back's existing contract expires in summer 2025.

Last matchday

Chandler came on as a late substitute (90+3') in Frankfurt's 2-2 draw with Hoffenheim on Matchday 19.

Timothy Chandler has been on the books of Frankfurt - the city of his birth - since July 2014. - DFL

Cole Campbell
Club: Dortmund
Position: Midfielder
Age: 18 (born 20 February, 2006)
Bundesliga games this season: 4
Starts: 0

2024/25

Born in Houston, Texas, Campbell joined the BVB youth academy in July 2022. He was promoted to the first-team squad in summer 2024 and after being an unused substitute on Bundesliga Matchdays 6 and 7 - as well as away to Real Madrid in the Champions League - he made his debut on Matchday 8.

Last matchday

Campbell was an unused substitute as Dortmund won 2-1 away from home against Heidenheim on Matchday 20.

Cole Campbell (l.) made his Bundesliga debut for Borussia Dortmund on Matchday 8. - Sebastian Widmann

James Sands
Club: St. Pauli
Position: Midfielder
Age: 24 (born 6 July, 2000)
Bundesliga games this season: 5
Starts: 3

2024/25

After two shorts stints with Rangers in Scotland, Sands made his third trip abroad on a temporary basis from New York City FC in January. His presence gives Alexander Blessin another option as they look to beat the drop.

Last matchday

Sands started and played the full 90 minutes as St. Pauli drew 1-1 against Augsburg on Matchday 20.

James Sands joined St. Pauli on loan in January. - IMAGO/Eibner-Pressefoto/Max Vincen

Paxten Aaronson
Club: Eintracht Frankfurt (on loan at Utrecht)
Position: Attacking midfielder
Age: 21 (born August 26, 2003)
Bundesliga games this season: -
Starts: -

2024/25

After a successful loan to Vitesse Arnhem during the second half of 2023/24, Frankfurt's Aaronson is spending the current campaign at Utrecht, also of the Dutch Eredivisie.

Watch: Paxten Aaronson - Frankfurt's US prospect

John Tolkin
Club: Holstein Kiel
Position: Full-back
Age: 22 (born July 31, 2003)
Bundesliga games this season: 2
Starts: 1

Having played four seasons for New York Red Bulls, and being named an MLS All-Star in 2023, the left-back who goes by the name JMi switched to Kiel in January 2025 with the newly promoted side locked in a battle to retain their Bundesliga status.

Last matchday

Tolkin had his first Bundesliga start in the 4-3 thriller against Bayern Munich on Matchday 20, with the American playing 82 minutes of the game.

Tolkin looks well to be an important player for Holstein Kiel going forward. - LUKAS BARTH-TUTTAS

Americans in Bundesliga 2

John Brooks (Hertha Berlin)
Santiago Castañeda (Paderborn)
Maximilian Dietz (Greuther Fürth)
Damion Downs (Cologne)
Johan Gómez (Eintracht Braunschweig)
Julian Green (Greuther Fürth)