Joshua Zirkzee

About

Joshua Orobosa Zirkzee (born 22 May 2001) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and the Netherlands national team.
Zirkzee is a graduate of Bayern Munich’s youth system and made 17 first-team appearances for the club. While at Bayern, he had loan spells at Parma and Anderlecht. Zirkzee signed for Bologna in August 2022. In the 2023–24 season, he was named in the Serie A Team of the Year and won the league’s Best Under-23 player award. He joined Manchester United in July 2024.
Zirkzee made more than 40 appearances for the Netherlands at youth international level. He made his senior international debut in July 2024, at UEFA Euro 2024.

Born in Schiedam to a Nigerian mother and a Dutch father, Zirkzee began his footballing career as a five-year-old with VV Hekelingen after the family had moved to Spijkenisse. After impressing early on, he moved to the youth department of Spartaan ’20 in 2010, where he played alongside his cousin, Nelson Amadin. He then left for ADO Den Haag in 2013, before ending up in the Feyenoord youth academy in 2016. One year later, Zirkzee left the Feyenoord academy in…