Berlin
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) is a German
footballer
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.
Club career
Fuß started his career at Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin and later joined the youth squad of
Türkiyemspor Berlin
Türkiyemspor Berlin is a Turkish association football club from Berlin. The club began in 1978 as a loose association of young footballers playing recreationally as ''Kreuzberg Gençler Birliği'' (Kreuzberg Youth Union), named after the Ber ...
.
After coming through the ranks of
Hertha BSC
Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC () or Hertha Berlin, is a German professional football club based in Berlin. Hertha BSC plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football league system, German footbal ...
, he switched to city rivals
Hertha Zehlendorf
The Hertha Zehlendorf is a German football club from the suburb of Zehlendorf in Berlin, currently playing in Regionalliga Nordost, the fourth tier of German football.
The club is one of the largest football clubs in the country and has a st ...
before moving to
Türkiyemspor Berlin
Türkiyemspor Berlin is a Turkish association football club from Berlin. The club began in 1978 as a loose association of young footballers playing recreationally as ''Kreuzberg Gençler Birliği'' (Kreuzberg Youth Union), named after the Ber ...
where he scored a
Verbandsliga
The Verbandsliga () is the tier-six football league in the German football league system, covering the area of a '' Bundesland'' or a regional part of such Bundesland. helping the club to become
Berlin-Liga
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champions of the 1999–2000 season. Fuß left Türkiyemspor for
Tennis Borussia Berlin
Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Westend in Berlin.
History
The team was founded in 1902 as ''Berliner Tennis- und Ping-Pong-Gesellschaft Borussia'' taking its name from its origins as a tennis and ...
Regionalliga Nord
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, scoring only twice in 21 games. After spells at
1. SC Göttingen 05
1. SC Göttingen 05 is a German football club based in Göttingen, Lower Saxony. The club is the second to use that name.
History
The first incarnation of 1898 was disbanded by 1903 and a new club was started up in 1905 as ''Göttinger FC 05'' ...
and 1. SC Feucht, Fuß returned to Türkiyemspor and then spent five years at Tennis Borussia and had a trial at
FC Energie Cottbus
FC Energie Cottbus (Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons i ...
before signing for
Berliner AK 07
Berliner AK 07 is a German football club based in the locality of Moabit of the borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The team competes in the fifth tier NOFV-Oberliga Nord.
History
The association was established on 15 December 1907 in the ...
, scoring 16 goals from 22 appearances. From 2010 until 2012, he played for
BFC Viktoria 1889
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Bezirksliga
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Structure
Depending on the structural organisation within each of the 21 state football associations of the German Fo ...
Berlin's top goalscorer with 45 goals. In 2013, aged 36, Fuß returned to
Tennis Borussia Berlin
Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Westend in Berlin.
History
The team was founded in 1902 as ''Berliner Tennis- und Ping-Pong-Gesellschaft Borussia'' taking its name from its origins as a tennis and ...
, and was the 2013–14 Berlin-Liga season top-scorer with 24 goals in 26 games. The following season, he was again the Berlin-Liga's top-scorer with 29 goals from all 34 league games, helping TeBe to become league champions. Fuß made only two further appearances in the first half of the
2015–16 NOFV-Oberliga
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Landesliga
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In Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hamburg, the Landesligas are set right below the Oberliga and therefore are the sixth tier. The r ...
.
Personal life
During his time at Türkiyemspor Fuß converted to
Islam
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and in the course of his
circumcision
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ceremony took on the
Turkish
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* Something related to Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire
* The w ...