Joel Victor Imasuen (born October 27, 2004) is an American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

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) ** Smal ...

for

Regionalliga Nord The Regionalliga Nord () is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern, Regionalliga N ...

club

Werder Bremen II SV Werder Bremen II is the reserve team of SV Werder Bremen. It plays in the Bremenliga, the fifth level of the German football league system, and has qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal on nineteen occasions. It also has won the Germ ...

Career

Imasuen joined

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...

club

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. Founded on 4 February 1899, Werder are best known for their professional association foo ...

from

Viktoria Berlin Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 Berlin Lichterfelde-Tempelhof e.V., commonly known as FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin or Viktoria Berlin, is a German association football club based in the locality of Lichterfelde (Berlin), Lichterfelde of the Boroughs and ...

in 2022. During the 2023–24 season, he mainly played for the club's reserves in the

Bremen-Liga The Bremen-Liga, sometimes also referred to as ''Oberliga Bremen'', is a fifth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the States of Germany, German state Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. It is one of four ...

. He and teammate

Maik Łukowicz Maik Łukowicz (born 1 February 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Dutch club Helmond Sport. Born in Germany, he represented Poland at under-17 and under-20 levels. Club career Born in Bremen, Germany, he began his ...

fought for the spot as top scorer across all Oberligas, the German fifth tier, having scored 25 and 30 goals, respectively, after 20 matches. On March 21, 2024, Imasuen played for Werder Bremen's first team in a friendly against

Hannover 96 Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96 (), is a German professional association football, football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony. They played in the Bundesliga for a total of 30 years between 19 ...

, scoring his side's only goal in a 3–1 loss. He subsequently trained with the first team. On 30 March 2024, he debuted in the Bundesliga during a 2–0 loss to

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg (), is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of Wolfsburg. I ...

Style of play

Imasuen mainly operates as a

. Werder Bremen's head of professional football

Clemens Fritz Clemens Fritz (born 7 December 1980) is a German former professional footballer who played as a right-back and as a defensive midfielder. He is mostly known for his 11-year spell at Werder Bremen. Having begun his career at Rot-Weiß Erfurt an ...

described him as having an "intense style of play".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Imasuen, Joel Living people 2004 births 21st-century American sportsmen American men's soccer players Soccer players from Atlanta Men's association football forwards Bundesliga players Oberliga (football) players SV Werder Bremen players SV Werder Bremen II players American expatriate men's soccer players American expatriate men's soccer players in Germany