Marc Heider (born 18 May 1986) is an American professional

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who plays as a

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ...

for

Sportfreunde Lotte VfL Sportfreunde Lotte is a German association football club from Lotte, North Rhine-Westphalia. The football team is part of a sports club with approximately 1400 members and departments for handball, walking, gymnastics, and swimming, as well ...

Career

Heider began his career at TuS Recke before being scouted in 2003 for the youth team of

VfL Osnabrück VfL Osnabrück is a German multi-sport club in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It currently fields teams in basketball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, and tennis but is by far best known for its football section. History Foundation to WW2 The cl ...

. He was promoted to the senior team of Osnabrück and played sixteen games scoring two goals. In July 2006 Heider transferred to

Werder Bremen Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are be ...

where he played for the reserve team and was released on 30 May 2009. On 26 June, he signed for

Holstein Kiel Kieler Sportvereinigung Holstein von 1900 e.V., simply as KSV Holstein or Kieler SV Holstein, commonly known as Holstein Kiel (), is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. From the 1900s thro ...

Personal life

Born in

Sacramento ) , image_map = Sacramento County California Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Sacramento Highlighted.svg , mapsize = 250x200px , map_caption = Location within Sacramento ...

, United States, Heider is the son of a pilot. He grew up in

Recke Recke is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Recke is situated approximately 20 km north-east of Rheine and 25 km north-west of Osnabrück. Neighbouring municipalities * Ibbenb ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

, and has German citizenship.

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* * 1986 births Living people Soccer players from California American men's soccer players American people of German descent German men's footballers American emigrants to Germany Men's association football forwards 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Regionalliga players VfL Osnabrück players SV Werder Bremen II players Holstein Kiel players Holstein Kiel II players Sportfreunde Lotte players People from Steinfurt (district) German sportspeople of American descent Footballers from Münster (region) {{US-footy-forward-stub