Niklas Bosserhoff (born 15 April 1998) is a German

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

player who plays as a defender for

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

Hamburger Polo Club The Hamburger Polo Club is a sports club in Hamburg, Germany, founded in 1898. The club participates in polo, field hockey, and tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opp ...

and the German national team. He competed in the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

Club career

Bosserhoff came through the youth ranks of

Uhlenhorst Mülheim Uhlenhorst () is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany in the Hamburg-Nord Hamburg-Nord (meaning ''Hamburg North'') is one of the seven Boroughs and quarters of Hamburg#Boroughs, boroughs of the Hamburg, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, in northern ...

and played in the senior team with whom he won two Bundesliga titles. He was a total of 19 years at the club until 2022 when he left Mülheim for

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