Hüseyin Er

Er was born to Haydar and Çiçek in Göksun, Kahramanmaraş Province, southern Turkey in 1985.[3][4][5] He had eight siblings, of whom four are also deaf.[4][5][6] He had a twin brother, Hasan, who also became a football player.[4][6] The family migrated to the United Kingdom when he was two years old.[6]

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).[5][7] He then played for Arsenal DFC,[7] and also for St John's DFC.[4] With St John's DFC, he won all of the domestic trophies.[8]

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.[9] In the second half of the 2019–20 season, he transferred to İzmirspor in the Turkish Regional Amateur League.[10][11]

Er became a member of the Turkey deaf football team in 2006.[7]During his career, his national team took the runners-up position at the 2008 World Championships and EuroDeaf 2011,[6] and champion titles at the World Championships (2012, 2016),[12] 2017 Deaflympics, and European Championships (2015,[6][12] 2019).[4][5][13] He was named Best Player of the 2008 World Championships.[6]

Er played at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics held in Samsun, Turkey. He scored one goal in the match against Italy,[2] and two goals against Saudi Arabia.[12][14] At the EuroDeaf 2019 in Heraklion, Greece, he netted four goals in total.[15]

Er took part in the Group F of the qualification round for the EuroDeaf 2019 held in Wales. The opponents were Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweden, and Wales.[16]

International gaols

Year	Competition	Opponent	Result	Goals	Ref
Turkey national deaf football team
2017	Summer Deaflympics	Italy	W 4–0	1	[2]
		Saudi Arabia	W 3–1	2	[12][14]
2019	EuroDeaf	Denmark	W 6–1	4	[15][17]
		Ireland	W 6–0
		Hungary	W 8–0
		Greece	L 2–4
		England	W 2–0
		Russia	W 2–1

Er died from a heart attack after a training session in London at the age of 36 on 16 May 2021.[1][5][10][18] He was interred at Lavender Hill Cemetery in Enfield, London.[13][4] His family later held a memorial and religious service at the London Alevi Cultural Centre and Cem-Evi.[4]