Vitalij Lux ( ky, Виталий Люкс, Vitaliy Lyuks; ; born 27 February 1989) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for

Landesliga Bayern-Südost The Landesliga Bayern-Südost ( en, State league Bavaria-Southeast) is currently the sixth tier of the German football league system in south eastern Bavaria and the third tier of the Bavarian football league system. It is one of five Landesligas ...

club TuS Geretsried and the Kyrgyzstan national team. Lux holds both German and Kyrgyz citizenship, and has represented Kyrgyzstan internationally since 2015.

Early life

Lux was born in

Kara-Balta Kara-Balta (lit. 'black ax', Russian and ky, Кара-Балта) is a city and municipality on the Kara-Balta River, in Chüy Region, Kyrgyzstan, the capital of Jayyl District. It was founded in 1825 under the Kokand Khanate, and received city ...

, Soviet Union, but was raised in

Ulm Ulm () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Danube on the border with Bavaria. The city, which has an estimated population of more than 126,000 (2018), forms an urban district of its own (german: link=no, ...

, Germany, where he moved to when he was six years old.

Club career

Lux scored his first goal for

SpVgg Unterhaching Spielvereinigung Unterhaching () is a German sports club in Unterhaching, a semi-rural municipality on the southern outskirts of the Bavarian capital Munich. The club is widely known for playing in the first-division association football league B ...

, in a 6–0 win against

FC Augsburg II FC Augsburg II is the reserve team of the German association football club FC Augsburg from the city of Augsburg, Bavaria, whose first team play in the Bundesliga. The team, which has never played above the fourth tier, had its greatest success ...

. He helped Unterhaching get to the final of the 2015–16 Bavarian Cup, scoring a brace in the quarter-finals against Seligenporten, and another two goals in the semifinals against

Jahn Regensburg Sport- und Schwimmverein Jahn Regensburg e. V., commonly known as SSV Jahn Regensburg, Jahn Regensburg, SSV Jahn or simply Jahn is a German football club based in Regensburg, Bavaria. The club is based on a gymnastics club founded in 1886 a ...

International career

Lux was called up in May 2015 by

Aleksandr Krestinin Alexander Sergeyevich Krestinin (russian: Александр Сергеевич Крестинин; born 19 September 1978) is a Russian professional football manager and a former player. He is the current manager of Kyrgyzstan national team. C ...

to represent

Kyrgyzstan national football team The Kyrgyzstan national football team ( ky, Кыргыз Республикасынын улуттук курама командасы (''Kyrgyz Respublikasynyn uluttuk kurama komandasy''); russian: Сборная Кыргызской Респ� ...

in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers against

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

and

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. He made his debut in a 3–1 victory against

, playing the full match. Lux helped Kyrgyzstan reach their first major tournament, the

2019 AFC Asian Cup The 2019 AFC Asian Cup was the 17th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It was held in the United Arab Emirates from 5 January to 1 ...

, where they reached the Round of 16.

Career statistics

International

International goals

:''Score and Result lists Kyrgyzstan goals first.''

References

External links

* * 1989 births Living people Men's association football forwards Kyrgyzstan men's international footballers Kyrgyzstani men's footballers German people of Kyrgyzstani descent Kyrgyzstani people of German descent Citizens of Germany through descent German men's footballers People from Kara-Balta Soviet emigrants to Germany FC Carl Zeiss Jena players 1. FC Nürnberg players SpVgg Unterhaching players SSV Ulm 1846 players Regionalliga players 3. Liga players 2019 AFC Asian Cup players {{Germany-footy-forward-1980s-stub