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Max Kruse Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography

Max Kruse Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography

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Age: 36 Years

Hometown: Hamburg, Germany

Wife: Dilara Kruse

Bio/Wiki
Full Name Max Bennet Kruse
Profession Retired Professional Footballer, TV Actor
Physical Stats
Height (approx.) 5' 11" (180 cm)
Eye Colour Hazel Blue
Hair Colour Blonde
Football
International Debut On 29 May 2013 against Ecuador in Boca Raton, Florida
Jersey Number #23 (Germany national football team)
Club(s) Youth teams
ā€¢ TSV Reinbek (1992ā€“1998)
ā€¢ SC Vier- und Marschlande (1998ā€“2005)
ā€¢ Werder Bremen (2006ā€“2007)

Senior teams
ā€¢ Werder Bremen II (2006ā€“2009)
ā€¢ Werder Bremen (2007ā€“2009)
ā€¢ FC St. Pauli (2009ā€“2012)
ā€¢ FC St. Pauli II (2009)
ā€¢ SC Freiburg (2012ā€“2013)
ā€¢ Borussia Mƶnchengladbach (2013ā€“2015)
ā€¢ VfL Wolfsburg (2015ā€“2016)
ā€¢ Werder Bremen (2016ā€“2019)
ā€¢ FenerbahƧe (2019ā€“2020)
ā€¢ Union Berlin (2020ā€“2022)
ā€¢ VfL Wolfsburg (2022)
ā€¢ SC Paderborn (2023)
Position Forward
Awards ā€¢ VDV Newcomer of the Season (2012ā€“13)
Personal Life
Date of Birth 19 March 1988 (Saturday)
Age (as of 2024) 36 Years
Birthplace Reinbek, West Germany (Now Germany)
Zodiac sign Pisces
Nationality German
Hometown Hamburg, Germany
Hobbies Travelling, Singing, Listening Music
Tattoo(s) ā€¢ On left fore-arm: Name and date of birth of his son


ā€¢ Tattoo on the left bicep
Controversies ā€¢ The Poker Incident
In March 2016, Max was fined Ā£20,000 by his then club VfL Wolfsburg for playing Poker. Max is an avid Poker player and he participated in a World Series Poker tournament in Berlin. He won Ā£60,000 prize money in the tournament but while on his way back, he lost the prize money in the backseat of a taxi. He filed a police complaint but the money was never recovered. Even though he tried to hide the incident from the media, the news eventually came out after a few months. check sources
BBC


ā€¢ Controversy on his 28th Birthday
When Max was celebrating his 28th birthday in a nightclub in Berlin, he saw a woman taking pictures of him with her mobile phone. Seeing this he got angry and he took away her phone from the woman and deleted his pictures. That woman was a journalist who made that news viral the next day. Max suffered the consequences and was dropped from the German national football team's squad for the UEFA Euro tournament 2016. check sources
The Guardian


ā€¢ Escort Girl Scandal
In 2013, Max Kruse was caught with a lady escort in his room while he was on international duty with the German National football team. He was staying in the hotel with the team when the incident happened. Although he admitted afterwards that he often used escort services when he travelled with the team, on that day, he was a bit careless. He was caught by the team bosses, after which he was axed from the national team, which was scheduled to participate in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. check sources
The Sun
Social Media ā€¢ Instagram

ā€¢ Facebook

ā€¢ Twitter
Relationships & More
Marital Status Married
Affairs/Girlfriends ā€¢ Dilara Kruse


ā€¢ Alina (Separated in 2019)
Marriage Date 16 December 2021
Family
Wife/Spouse Dilara Kruse
Children Son- Lauro Maxim (born in 2011 from Alina)
Parents Father- Frank Kruse
Siblings Sister- Pia Maria (Flight attendant)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Max Kruse

  • Max began his professional football career in 1992 with his hometown club TSV Reinbek.

  • Max was part of the Germany U-19 team that competed at the UEFA U-19 Championship in 2007.

  • Max likes to smoke hookah.

    Max Kruse enjoying in a pool while smoking hookah

  • While playing for FC St. Pauli, Max scored 13 goals and recorded six assists in the 2. Bundesliga during the 2011-12 season. He helped the club finish in fourth position in the league missing out on the promotion playoffs on goal difference.

  • Max scored his first international goal for Germany against the United States in Washington, D.C. on 2 June 2013.

  • Besides football, Max also likes to play poker and in June 2014 he came third out of 241 players at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

  • Max likes to party in nightclubs.

    Max Kruseā€™s photo in a nightclub during the party

  • On 10 May 2015, Max joined VfL Wolfsburg on a four-year deal after the club activated his release clause of ā‚¬12 million. He made his debut for the club against Bayern Munich in the 2015 DFL Supercup on 1 August 2015 after coming as a substitute in the 70th minute.

  • In 2016, the VfL Wolfsburg club management advised Max to avoid eating Nutella for breakfast after the club noticed it. The club expected its players to stay in good shape and follow a strict diet routine.

  • Due to disciplinary issues, Max was dropped from the German National football team which took part in the 2014 Fifa World Cup and 2016 UEFA Euro tournament.

  • Max scored four goals in a match for the first time in his career on 22 April 2017 against FC Ingolstadt 04 and helped his club Werder Bremen to maintain the unbeaten run of 10 matches.

  • In 2017, Max met with an accident while he was driving with his family in Hamburg. There was ice on the road due to which the car slipped and rammed into the railings. Fortunately, there were no injuries but the car was damaged badly.

  • Max was appointed captain of Werder Bremen by manager Florian Kohfeldt ahead of the 2018ā€“19 season.

  • Max is very passionate about motorsports and owns a racing team Max Kruse Racing which he started in January 2018.

    Max Kruse clicked during a motorsport event

  • In the 2018-19 season, Max received an offer from Liverpool FCā€™s coach JĆ¼rgen Klopp who wanted him to join them as a backup striker. The deal collapsed as Liverpool later won the UEFA Champions League that season and kept Divock Origi as the backup. Max joined the Turkish club FenerbahƧe SK next season.

  • On New Yearā€™s Eve 2019, Max performed in the Turkish version of the musical talent show ā€˜The Voice.ā€™

Max Kruse bei der Silvester Spezial-Folge von The Voice in der TĆ¼rkei.
Jetzt habe ich alles gesehen.#OSesTuerkiyeYılbası

(Ignoriert die Stimmen im Hintergrund.šŸ˜…šŸ˜‚) pic.twitter.com/aq8muQicX7

ā€” Edis šŸ‡¹šŸ‡· (@EdisFCN) December 31, 2019

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