Hüseyin Er
Hüseyin Er (14 January 1985 – 16 May 2021) was a deaf Turkish-born footballer who grew up and mostly lived in London. He was a member of the Turkey national deaf football team. Private life Er was born to Haydar and Çiçek in Göksun, Kahramanmaraş Province, southern Turkey in 1985. He had eight siblings, of whom four are also deaf. He had a twin brother, Hasan, who also became a football player. The family migrated to the United Kingdom when he was two years old. Club career Er started playing football at a very young age. Memnos Costi, a deaf footballer and coach, who knew the twin brothers since their age of six, taught them to play football. At 14, the quick-learning boy became a member of Tottenham Deaf Football Club (DFC). He then played for Arsenal DFC, and also for St John's DFC. With St John's DFC, he won all of the domestic trophies. In 2012, Er transferred from the British Arsenal DFC to the 2011–12 Turkish league champion Kartal Municipality DFC in Istanbul, Turkey together with his brother Ali. In the second half of the 2019–20 season, he transferred to İzmirspor in the Turkish Regional Amateur League. International