Alim Öztürk

Alim Öztürk
Personnel
birthday	17th November 1992
place of birth	Alkmaar , the  Netherlands
size	192 cm
position	Central defender (left)
Juniors
Years	station
2001–	AFC '34
0000–2011	FC Groningen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2011-2013	SC Cambuur-Leeuwarden	13 (0)
2013-2014	Trabzonspor	0 (0)
2013-2014	→  1461 Trabzon  (loan)	18 (2)
2014-2017	Heart of Midlothian	62 (5)
2017-2018	Boluspor	40 (1)
2018–	Sunderland AFC	5 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2013–	Turkey U-21	6 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 3, 2019

Alim Öztürk (born November 17, 1992 in Alkmaar ) is a Dutch - Turkish soccer player .

Career

society

Öztürk was born in 1992 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, to parents of Turkish origin, both from the Central Anatolian province of Sivas . Here he began with the club football in the youth of AFC '34 (written out Alkmaarse Football Club '34 ). He then moved to the youth department of FC Groningen . Here he was given the opportunity to attend Johan Cruyff College , a football boarding school designed for young talents. In 2011 he moved to the Eerste Divisie club SC Cambuur-Leeuwarden and was immediately integrated into the professional squad. In his first season, Öztürk then played 5 league games. With his team he celebrated the championship of the Eerste Divisie at the end of the season and thus rose to the Eredivisie .

For the second half of the 2012/13 season, Öztürk moved to the Turkish first division club Trabzonspor . Without having played a competitive game for Trabzonspor, Öztürk was loaned to the club's second team, the second division club 1461 Trabzon , for the 2013/14 season. Here he came to 18 championship appearances and two goals at the end of the season.

In the summer break of 2014 Öztürk left Trabzon and signed a three-year contract with the Scottish first division relegated Heart of Midlothian . With the Hearts he was able to achieve direct promotion to the Scottish Premiership as a regular player . After his first season, Öztürk was also appointed captain of the team. In the 2016/17 season he lost the captain's armband and his regular place in central defense to Perry Kitchen . Öztürk therefore left the club prematurely in January 2017 and moved back to Turkey to Boluspor .

In the summer of 2018 he left Boluspor and continued his career at Sunderland AFC .

National team

Öztürk started his national team career in 2013 in the Turkish U-21 national team .

Web links

• Alim Öztürk in the database of weltfussball.de
• Alim Öztürk in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Alim Öztürk in the mackolik.com database (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ yetenekliturkfutbolcu.de.tl: "Interview with Alim Öztürk" (accessed on May 31, 2013)
2. ↑ milliyet.com.tr: "Alim Öztürk Trabzonspor'da" (accessed on May 31, 2013)
3. ↑ scotsman.com: "Hearts sign Turkish stopper Alim Ozturk" (accessed June 27, 2014)
4. ↑ Alim Ozturk: ​​Former Hearts captain moves to Boluspor. BBC Sport, January 8, 2017, accessed January 9, 2017 .