{"id":182394,"date":"2025-06-14T00:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182394\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T00:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:12:45","slug":"victory-young-gun-seals-german-bundesliga-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182394\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory young gun seals German Bundesliga switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Victory young gun Kasey Bos has sealed a transfer to German Bundesliga club Mainz 05, capping off his rapid rise.<\/p>\n<p>Bos, who received his first Socceroos call-up for games against Japan and Saudi Arabia, departs the Victory, who receive an undisclosed transfer fee, to sign with Mainz 05 on a four-year deal through to 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old left-back, younger brother of Socceroos and Westerlo defender Jordy, made just four appearances off the bench for the Victory in 2023-24 but exploded in the most recent A-League Men season.<\/p>\n<blockquote placeholder=\"\" data-theme=\"light\" class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Welcome to Mainz 05, Kasey Bos! \ud83d\udd34\u26aa<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old defender joins from Melbourne Victory FC and has signed a four-year deal with the 05ers until 2029 \u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7h7DAwWHig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pic.twitter.com\/7h7DAwWHig;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pic.twitter.com\/7h7DAwWHig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mainz 05 English (@Mainz05en) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mainz05en\/status\/1933434869456970031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:June 13, 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">June 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bos scored four goals and notched two assists as he made 26 appearances, starting 24, including the Victory&#8217;s grand final defeat to Melbourne City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve loved every minute I&#8217;ve played at Melbourne Victory,&#8221; Bos said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club has helped shape my development and build the foundations necessary to take this next step overseas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bos&#8217;s season earned him an Olyroos call-up before his first senior camp under former Victory boss Tony Popovic.<\/p>\n<p>He will now attempt to kick on at Mainz, who finished sixth in the Bundesliga last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a player to progress from our academy to the A-League team, and now to a top-six Bundesliga club, is a testament to the belief and hard work of many, not least Kasey and his family,&#8221; Victory football director John Didulica said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"Kasey Bos.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/49a8e92c76ea78a6e2bf0a6dd25df4eb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kasey Bos wheels away after scoring against the Roar in Brisbane. (Jono Searle\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are incredibly proud to have been part of his journey so far, and have no doubt he will continue to achieve great things with 1. FSV Mainz 05.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, City confirmed talented young striker Max Caputo had signed a three-year contract extension until the end of the 2027-28 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Callum Talbot meantime departed the champions after three seasons, while Perth have signed former City forward Arion Sulemani on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Victory young gun Kasey Bos has sealed a transfer to German Bundesliga club Mainz 05, capping off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1060,1824,2122,74922,25633,74925,74921,6506,74924,74923],"class_list":{"0":"post-182394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-german-bundesliga","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-kasey-bos","14":"tag-mainz","15":"tag-mainz-05","16":"tag-melbourne-victory","17":"tag-saudi-arabia","18":"tag-socceroos","19":"tag-the-victory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114678827866854544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}