Down to the 7th tier: former BVB star finds a new club | OneFootball

The native Dortmunder won two championships with BVB, once even as a double, and became a world champion with the DFB, albeit without playing. He has not been active in professional football for some time but remains a player in amateur football. Now Kevin Großkreutz has signed with a new club – in the 7th league.

After not receiving a contract extension with Borussia Dortmund in 2015, Kevin Großkreutz moved on to several clubs. First, there was his infamous stint with Galatasaray Istanbul, which ended without him playing a single match. However, he then showed at VfB Stuttgart and Darmstadt 98 that he hadn't forgotten how to play football. Two years at KFC Uerdingen followed before he bid farewell to professional football.

However, not chasing the round leather at all was not an option for Kevin Großkreutz (yet). He continued from 2021 to 2023 with TuS Bövinghausen, a club from a district of Dortmund. There, he was initially active in the sixth league, moving up to the fifth-tier Oberliga after one season.

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Still on the Ball: BVB Fan Kevin Großkreutz

This was followed by two more years in amateur football, again in the fifth league with SV Wacker Obercastrop. Here, Kevin Großkreutz acted as an assistant coach, and most recently even as a player-coach, just as he did in Bövinghausen. But shortly after the start of his third season in Obercastrop, it suddenly came to an end.

At 37 years old, Großkreutz, who played 176 times for BVB in the Bundesliga, still does not want to end his career. As reported by FNP, he has now signed with TuS Eichlinghofen. His new club is also based in Dortmund and currently plays in the seventh league. The first team is in the 3rd division of the Landesliga, currently ranking ninth out of sixteen participants with fourteen points.

Fittingly, he signed his new contract on a beer mat, as shown in a video by TuS Eichlinghofen. However, Kevin Großkreutz will only be able to make his debut for TuS Eichlinghofen in the second half of the season. Only then will he be eligible to play for his new club. The opponents of the world champion and still die-hard Borussia Dortmund fan will then be FC Altenbochum, SV Brackel, or Sportfreunde Wanne-Eickel.

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