A two-time Bundesliga champion, the 27-year-old also boasts a World Cup winners’ medal.
His efforts at Borussia Dortmund brought him to the attention of a global audience and saw him take up a standing as one of football’s finest centre-halves.
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Bayern Munich, having allowed him to slip through their grasp once before, are not the type of club to pass up on such talent.
They moved to bring him back to Bavaria over the summer, and Hummels has slipped seamlessly into the fold at the Allianz Arena.
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He is chasing further major honours at home and abroad, but not everything is perfect in the life of a man who would appear to have everything.
Hummels is due to celebrate his birthday on December 16 and has joked that his ideal gift would be to see his ratings increased on a certain video game.
At present, Hummels – who is not renowned for his pace - boasts a speed rating of 64.
He makes up for that shortfall in his passing and physical stats, but is obviously not amused to find that he is some four marks down on 33-year-old colleague Philipp Lahm and 15 short of centre-half partner Jerome Boateng.
The burly defender can, however, console himself in the knowledge that he is viewed as being considerably quicker across the ground than team-mate Xabi Alonso, who scores a rather miserly 33 on the speed front!
