Emre Can

Emre Can is a German professional footballer who was born in Frankfurt on 12 January 1994.¹² A defensive midfielder who came through Bayern Munich, he played for Bayer Leverkusen, Liverpool and Juventus before joining Borussia Dortmund in 2020 and becoming their captain in 2023.¹ He won the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup with Germany and has won 48 caps.¹

Can joined his hometown club Eintracht Frankfurt at the age of twelve and moved to Bayern Munich's youth academy in 2009 after the family relocated to Munich.¹ He made his senior debut for Bayern in the 2012 DFL-Supercup and signed his first professional contract that year.¹

Seeking regular football, Can joined Bayer Leverkusen in 2013, playing in the Champions League and scoring four league goals in his single season there.¹ He moved to Liverpool in 2014, becoming a regular under Brendan Rodgers and Jürgen Klopp, and scored a bicycle-kick goal against Watford in May 2017 that was voted the Premier League's goal of the season.¹ In 2018 he signed for Juventus, winning two Serie A titles, and in January 2020 he joined Borussia Dortmund, where he was named captain in 2023 and, as the English article records, renewed his contract until 2027.¹

Can played for Germany at every youth level and made his senior debut in a European Championship qualifier against Poland in September 2015.¹ He was part of the squad that won the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia and of Germany's squad at Euro 2020.¹

This section presents the positions found in the sources; it is not a verdict by the museum. The English article's Personal life section states, in the article's own voice, that "Can is a practising Muslim", citing BBC Three's piece of 10 June 2016 on Muslim footballers during Ramadan — a statement of practice and of generic Islam that names no school.¹ The Arabic article's infobox likewise gives his religion as "Islam" in the generic, and its text names no school.² Under the museum's two-source rule, which requires two independent sources to name a school for the person himself and does not count practice, his school is therefore recorded as unknown.¹² The English article also records that in January 2023 Can disclosed that a thyroid cancer had been diagnosed during his medical at Juventus in 2018 and treated by surgery, and that he has since supported research into the disease.¹

• Emre Can — English Wikipedia¹
• Emre Can — Arabic Wikipedia²