Max Kruse: Bundesliga Legend Returns to Football Despite Being Out of Shape

news-content">Max Kruse is a Bundesliga legend of the last decade. The former German international, who ended his career last year, has now decided to return to football despite being out of shape in the meantime.

He started his senior role in the team Bremen Werderlater he also played for, among other things Borussia Mönchengladbach, Berlin Union, Freiburg a Wolfsburg. He spent most of his career in one of the best European leagues, in which he scored 97 goals and recorded 79 assists in 307 games.

After one successful season in Fenerbahçe he returned to his homeland and joined the Union Berlin, which he helped to rise historically. He then returned to Wolfsburg for a second time, where, however, he clashed with the coach at the time, Niko Kovač, and was forced to leave in the fall of 2022.

Last year he played in the second league team Paderbornfrom which he left after five months and later announced the end of his career, when he enjoyed a total of 162 goals and 134 assists.

Now the former international has returned to football again, joining the amateur club Dersimspor, which operates in the ninth German league. The head of the German Turks club was sure that Max Kruse is also because the football player has a good relationship with their coach Guven Akpolat.

“We can’t give him a top ten as he’s already taken, but he will start his first game as team captain on Sunday. they announced the leaders of the club from the regional league, announced by the portal Index.hr.

However, after the end of his career, Max Kruse got out of shape and revealed that he weighed 100 kilograms when he signed a new contract. “I hope they have XXXL jerseys at the club as well,” he made fun of the football player at his own expense.

The Dersimspor coach said that he has already familiarized his new signing with the club’s rules, according to which he will receive a case of beer for his signing, as is their custom. But at the same time, he must stop smoking hookah.

“We told him that he is not allowed to enter the locker room with a pipe, that is prohibited here. Like all clubs, we also have our own rules, which include that anyone who is late for training or a meeting must pay 10 euros to the team’s finances.” said Guveno Akpolat.