Jeremy Karikari

Jeremy Opoku - Karikari ( born July 23, 1987 in Hamburg ) is a German football player.

Career

Born in Hamburg, with Ghanaian roots played in the Youth for Concordia Hamburg, Eimsbütteler TV, Hamburger SV and FC St. Pauli. After initial operations in the reserve team of the district kicker Karikari gave on 11 November 2007, his professional debut in the 2nd Bundesliga for St. Pauli against FC Augsburg.

In January 2008, he joined the second team of VfB Stuttgart. He received a dated until end of June 2010 contract. After 42 missions in the 3rd league Defensive Allrounder changed in February 2010 to SSV Jahn Regensburg, where he did after his first game drew upon an inner band demolition and pause in the following season for a long time because of a crack of the outer and Syndesmosebandes had. After only one year at the SSV Jahn Karikari changed in January 2011 to Eintracht Trier in the Regionalliga West. In the 2012/13 season he played for RB Leipzig in the Regionalliga Nord. On 13 May 2013, was exempted because of misconduct in public with immediate effect and ultimately terminated without notice. On August 29, 2013 he signed a one year contract at third division VfL Osnabrück.

Others

Since 2013, Jeremy Karikari committed to Show Racism the Red Card - Germany eV In March he took part in a workshop of the education initiative and told the pupils about his own experiences with racism and discrimination. Contrast, however, are alleged homophobic utterances Karikaris of early 2014, he should have posted after coming out of ex-national player Thomas Hitzlsperger on his Facebook profile page.