1. Marco Reus is widely regarded as one of Borussia Dortmund's best ever players.
42 Facts About Marco Reus
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Marco Reus joined Borussia Monchengladbach in 2009, and had his most successful season at the club in 2012, scoring 18 goals and providing 12 assists in the Bundesliga to help Borussia Monchengladbach secure a place in the following season's UEFA Champions League.
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Marco Reus finished Bundesliga runner-up seven times in his twelve years at the club.
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Marco Reus has scored over 150 goals for the club, and is one of only three players to have reached 100 Bundesliga goals and assists each.
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Marco Reus has been voted German Footballer of the Year twice, as well as Bundesliga Player of the Season on three occasions.
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Four months after signing for Galaxy, Marco Reus clinched his first trophies with the club.
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Marco Reus represented them at two major tournaments, but missed three World Cups and two Euros due to physical reasons.
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Marco Reus began to play football for his hometown club Post SV Dortmund in 1994 and joined the youth ranks of Borussia Dortmund in 1996.
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Marco Reus played for Borussia Dortmund until he left for the U-19 team of Rot Weiss Ahlen in the summer of 2006.
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Marco Reus scored a goal in each of his first two games.
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Marco Reus featured in 16 games that season, two of which he started.
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On 25 May 2009, Marco Reus signed a four-year contract with Bundesliga club Borussia Monchengladbach, receiving the shirt number 11.
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On 20 August 2010, Marco Reus scored his first Bundesliga brace in an eventual loss against Mainz 05.
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Marco Reus mentioned that his role model was Tomas Rosicky, who played for Borussia Dortmund, Marco Reus' city of birth and former club.
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On 16 February 2013, Marco Reus scored a hat-trick, netting all the goals in Dortmund's thumping of Hessian side Eintracht Frankfurt.
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On 9 April 2013, Marco Reus scored an injury time goal which was a vital one in the stunning injury time comeback against Malaga in the quarter final second leg of the UEFA Champions League.
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Marco Reus then scored a brace against SC Freiburg, one from the penalty spot, and started the season hitting impressive form.
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Marco Reus had confirmed he would be Dortmund's penalty taker for the season, though despite winning a penalty against 1860 Munich in the DFB Pokal, he allowed teammate Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in taking the penalty which propelled the Borussia-based club into the next round of the competition.
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Marco Reus finished the season with 23 goals and 18 assists in all competitions.
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On 10 February, Marco Reus signed a contract extension with Dortmund, keeping him at the club until 2019.
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Around this time, Marco Reus became part of a collaboration between the German Football Association and The LEGO Group, who in May 2016 released a Europe-exclusive collectible minifigure series, with Marco Reus featured as the thirteenth of sixteen minifigures in the collection.
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Marco Reus took the game ball for it was originally a hat-trick game by him, as he assisted an own-goal deflected by Warsaw player Jakub Rzezniczak, which was supposed to be a shot on the goal.
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On 10 February 2018, Marco Reus recovered from the ligament damage and made his return against Hamburg in the Bundesliga.
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On 9 March, Marco Reus extended his contract with the club until 30 June 2023.
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Marco Reus finished the season with 7 goals in 15 appearances in all competitions.
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Marco Reus ended the season with 21 goals and 14 assists in all competitions, and was voted the 2019 Germany Footballer of the year.
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On 27 April, Marco Reus signed a one-year contract extension until 2024.
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Three days later, Marco Reus played in his 400th match for Borussia Dortmund in all competitions in Der Klassiker against Bayern Munich, to be the sixth player to achieve this milestone, only behind Michael Zorc, Mats Hummels, Roman Weidenfeller, Stefan Reuter and Lars Ricken.
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Marco Reus ended his first season in the United States with eleven matches played, a goal scored and three assists provided.
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On 11 August 2009, Marco Reus made his Germany under-21 debut in a friendly match against Turkey.
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Marco Reus established himself as a regular member of Joachim Low's side in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign, scoring five goals and registering three assists in six matches.
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Marco Reus made his international comeback in Germany's first post-World Cup friendly against Argentina on 3 September 2014, whom they had beaten in the final two months prior.
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Marco Reus was included in Joachim Low's 23-man final squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup on 4 June.
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Marco Reus provided an assist to Toni Kroos' late winning goal in that match and was named Man of the Match.
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In November 2022, Marco Reus was exempt from Hansi Flick's 2022 FIFA World Cup squad reportedly as a result of an ankle injury he suffered in a match against Schalke, which he failed to recover from in time.
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In October 2023, Marco Reus showed interest to become part of the squad to represent Germany at the UEFA Euro 2024 on homesoil, and did not rule out a participation at the tournament should there be no physical complications.
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Marco Reus is renowned for his versatility, speed, agility, technical skills, intelligence, and shooting ability; however he is known for his proneness to injury.
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Beyond his qualities as a player, Marco Reus is known for his leadership, having served as captain of Borussia Dortmund.
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Marco Reus started dating German model Scarlett Gartmann in December 2015.
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Marco Reus has said that, if he was not a professional football player, he would be a pilot.
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Marco Reus was the cover athlete of FIFA 17, after being voted in by a fans' poll organized by Electronic Arts.
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Marco Reus had been driving for years with a fake Dutch licence, a felony in its own right, and has been issued with speeding tickets on at least five occasions since 2011 without authorities knowing that he was not legally licensed.