Marc Heider (born 18 May 1986) is an American professional
soccer player who plays as a
forward 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 wel ...
.
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
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. 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, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are best known for the ...
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
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, United States, Heider is the son of a pilot. He grew up in
Recke,
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhab ...
, 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)
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