Clubless professional footballer: Kruse revises USA request – woman wants to stay in Berlin
Max Kruse is without a club. The ex-footballer from VfL Wolfsburg was more often associated with a move to the USA. He could imagine emigrating, but his wife probably not.
Soccer player Max Kruse, who is currently without a club, has confirmed his desire to emigrate to the United States. “I don’t know if it’s forever, but I love America as a country, I love the mentality,” said the 34-year-old former international in a video interview with the Leeroy Matata YouTube account.
“My English is actually quite good, very good. I can make myself understood, it’s gotten better over the years. It wasn’t that good at school,” added Kruse. The attacking player has long been linked with a move to Major League Soccer (MLS) in North America as his 11-year-old son lives in Florida. “If you’re in America every year, sometimes for six weeks. At some point you just learn it,” said Kruse.
His wife, Dilara Kruse, said in the video that she loves her current place of residence in Berlin and does not want to emigrate to the United States. “It’s not that far yet. He knows that I would come with him, but will I be happy then? Well, I wouldn’t want it, but I have to, he’s my husband,” she said. It is conceivable for Max Kruse to live in both places. “I can also well imagine not commuting, but sharing my residence. So half in America, half here,” he said.
The retired attacker had mutually terminated the contract with his former club, Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg, in November. At the beginning of September, Kruse was sorted out by coach Niko Kovac and has not played a game for the wolves since then. His professionalism was checked by the VfL managers and he was accused of having a worse influence on the rest of the team.