André Kilian (born 18 May 1987) is a German football coach and former player who played as a

left-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

defensive midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundari ...

Career

Kilian was born in Herne. He played in the

Oberliga Westfalen The Oberliga Westfalen is the highest level football league in the region of Westphalia, which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The league existed from 1978 to 2008, but was then replaced by the NRW-Liga, a new statewide league. Wit ...

and the

Regionalliga West The Regionalliga West is a German semi-professional football division administered by the Western German Football Association based in Duisburg. It is one of the five German regional football associations. Being the single flight of the Western ...

for

FC Schalke 04 II FC Schalke 04 II are the reserve team of German association football club FC Schalke 04. Until 2005 the team played as FC Schalke 04 Amateure. The team has qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, on two occasions. They cu ...

however never broke through to the first team. In 2010, he moved abroad to Australia to play for the A-League club

North Queensland Fury Northern Fury Football Club was an Australian professional soccer club based in Townsville, Queensland. The club was founded in 2008 and competed in the A-League under the name North Queensland Fury. On 1 March 2011, the club was removed from ...

,Schalke Star Heads For Fury
/ref> before returning to Germany a year later to sign for

FC Homburg Fußball-Club 08 Homburg or simply FC Homburg is a German association football club based in Homburg, Saarland, that competes in the Regionalliga Südwest. The club was founded on 15 June 1908 as ''Fussball Club Homburg'' by a group of seventeen ...

External links

North Queensland Fury profile

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kilian, Andre 1987 births Living people People from Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia Sportspeople from Arnsberg (region) Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia German footballers Men's association football fullbacks Regionalliga players A-League Men players SC Westfalia Herne players FC Schalke 04 II players FC 08 Homburg players Northern Fury FC players German expatriate footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Australia Expatriate soccer players in Australia