Bilal Aziz Özer (born 1 July 1985) is a professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

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for Turkish club Kemerspor 2003. Born in Lebanon, Özer is of Turkish descent and holds

German citizenship German nationality law details the conditions by which an individual is a national of Germany. The primary law governing these requirements is the Nationality Act, which came into force on 1 January 1914. Germany is a member state of the Euro ...

. He started his senior career in Germany, before moving to Turkey in 2008.

Career

Özer began his career in Germany. He joined the youth club of TSV Verden, before moving to

Schalke 04 Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as Schalke 04 (), and abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional sports club from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its football team, w ...

's youth team. Özer played for the Schalke 04 II side. He then joined

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 Association football, football section. The footba ...

, where he played 48 games and scored twice. He scored his first goal for

in the

DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal (), also known as the German Cup in English language, English, is a German knockout Association football, football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competiti ...

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* * 1985 births Living people Footballers from Beirut Turkish men's footballers German men's footballers German sportspeople of Turkish descent Turkish emigrants to Germany Men's association football midfielders VfL Osnabrück players FC Schalke 04 II players Kayserispor footballers Konyaspor footballers Kayseri Erciyesspor footballers Ankaraspor footballers Fatih Karagümrük S.K. footballers Eskişehirspor footballers Süper Lig players 2. Bundesliga players TFF Second League players TFF 1. Lig players 21st-century German sportsmen 21st-century Turkish sportsmen {{Germany-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub