KFC - Kevin's Failed Club: with Kevin Grosskreutz, German football in 2018 saw for the first time a 2014 World Cup winner playing in the third division. How did it come to that? On March 2, 2017, his contract with Stuttgart was terminated after a fight in a Stuttgart red-light venue he had visited with youth players from the club.\n\nMarked by the brawl and in tears, Grosskreutz announced his temporary withdrawal from professional football.
Until his return in the summer of 2017 with Darmstadt, he kept fit training with BVB II. In 2018 he moved to newly promoted third-tier side KFC Uerdingen.\n\nIn May 2019 he was once again involved in a fight, this time during a Kreisliga C match involving his hometown club. He chose not to file a police complaint afterward.