Büşra Kuru (born 24 October 2001) is a

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who plays as a

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for

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club,

SC Sand SC Sand is a German sport club from Willstätt, Baden-Württemberg. The club was founded on 11 August 1946 and competes in football, aerobics, judo and qigong. The club is most known for its women's football section which plays in the Bundesliga ...

, and the Turkey women's national team. Born in Germany, she represents Turkey at the international level.

Early life

Büşra Kuru was born to Turkish parents in

Weinheim Weinheim (; pfl, Woinem) is a town with about 43,000 inhabitants in northwest Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, approximately north of Heidelberg and northeast of Mannheim. Weinheim is known as the "Zwei ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, Germany, on 24 October 2001. She studied at

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(Johann-Philipp-Reis Schule) in Weinheim.

Club career

Kuru began playing

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at age six. She was encouraged by her footballer brother, who took her to the sports field every day. Before she started playing, she pursued the hobbies of swimming and

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. She was part of the Baden selection team from 2011–12 to 2014–15, and in the Southwest selection team since the 2017–18 season. Kuru played for her hometown club SG Hohensachsen, where she scored 20 goals in the league and cup matches of the 2014–15 season. The following season, she moved to

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or simply TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim () is a German professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. Originally founded in 1899 ...

. She plays for 1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen in the

. In the next season, she transferred to 2. Frauen-Bundesliga–South.

International career

Kuru became a member of the Turkey girls' national under-17 team, debuting in the friendly match against

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on 25 January 2017. She took part at the 2017 UEFA Development Tournament in three of the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification – Group 7 matches and three games at the Elite round – Group 6. She was capped 21 times and scored one goal in total for the Turkey girls' under-17 team between 2017 and 2018. In 2018, Kuru was called up to the Turkey women's under-19 team, and played for the first time in a friendly game against

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on 28 August. She took part in three matches of the 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification – Group 2 and Elite round – Group 6 each. She played in 15 matches between 2018 and 2019. Kuru was selected for the Turkey women's team in 2020. She made her debut in the

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match against

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on 18 September 2020.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuru, Busra 2001 births Living people People from Weinheim Footballers from Karlsruhe (region) German sportspeople of Turkish descent Citizens of Turkey through descent Turkish women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Turkey women's international footballers German women's footballers 1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen players Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Germany