Alper Potuk

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Alper Potuk
Alper Potuk'14.JPG
Alper Potuk (2014)
Personnel
birthday April 8, 1991
place of birth Bolvadin ,  Turkey
size 176 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
2002-2005 Çiftelerspor
2005-2008 Eskişehirspor
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2010 Eskişehirspor A2 28 (0)
2009-2013 Eskişehirspor 106 (5)
2013– Fenerbahçe Istanbul 76 (7)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2010 Turkey U-19 4 (1)
2010 Turkey U20 1 (0)
2010–2012 Turkey U-21 11 (1)
2012 Turkey A2 2 (0)
2012– Turkey 12 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 3, 2016

Alper Potuk (born April 8, 1991 in Bolvadin ) is a Turkish football player and under contract with Fenerbahçe Istanbul .

Career

In the club

Potuk began with club football in the youth department of Çiftelerspor . Here it fell to the junior coaches of Eskişehirspor who could win the talent in 2005 for their junior department. In 2009, the head coach of the professional team, Rıza Çalımbay , became aware of Potuk and, in addition to his work for the reserve team, also involved him in training the professionals. On May 29, 2009 Alper Potuk made his debut in the professional squad in the league game against Gaziantepspor , where he was substituted on in the 75th minute. In the following season ( 2009/10 ) he was given longer playing times and is now one of the team's regulars. Alper Potuk celebrated his first goal in October 2011 against Samsunspor , where he scored the goal to win 1-0.

Potuk in Eskişehirspor's jersey in October 2012

During the first half of the season Potuk worked with the German coach Michael Skibbe and under this showed significant improvements in his game and became one of the shooting stars of the first half of the season. After several larger clubs began to show interest in him, his move to Fenerbahçe Istanbul was announced during the winter break of the 2011/12 season . Later the change did not materialize because of the different salary expectations between Potuk and Fenerbahçe. Potuk then extended his contract with Eskişehirspor for another 4.5 years. For the second half of the season, Ersun Yanal, a new coach at Eskişehirspor, was introduced. Under this coach, Potuk increased his performance again, rose to the national team and became the most sought-after Turkish player of the 2013 summer transfer period.

On May 22, 2013 it was announced that Alper Potuk moved to Fenerbahçe Istanbul and signed a five-year contract there. Both clubs agreed on a transfer fee of € 6.25 million and the transfer of the two Fenerbahçe players Henri Bienvenu and Orhan Şam to Eskişehirspor. After a brief period of reflection, Bienvenu agreed to move to Eskişehirspor and signed a three-year contract here. Orhan Şam, however, refused to move to Eskişehirspor and negotiated with clubs like Kasımpaşa Istanbul . So Fenerbahçe had to pay € 1 million on top of the previously determined transfer fee. Potuk's move to Fenerbahçe became one of the top topics in the Turkish sports press in the summer of 2013. Potuk and his club had first agreed on a move with Galatasaray Istanbul and had already published a press release that the transfer had come about. Immediately after Galatasaray's transfer negotiations, arch-rivals Fenerbahçe contacted the club and players and outbid Galatasaray. So Eskişehirspor and Potuk came to an agreement with Fenerbahçe. The people in charge of Galatasaray criticized this change with the fact that Galatasaray had been given a firm commitment.

National team

Potuk began his national team career in January 2010 with an assignment for the Turkish U-19 national team. After three more games for the U-19 selection, he was appointed to the squad of the Turkish U-21 national team in the same year as part of two qualifying games for the U-21 European Football Championship in 2011 . In these two games, however, he was on the bench.

After this first U-21 standardization, he took part with the U-20 national team in the Valery Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament 2010 in August 2013 and played two tournament games. Potuk then began to play for the U-21 national team and completed ten matches for them by November 2011.

In February 2012 Potuk was appointed to the squad of the Turkish national team for the first time due to his last convincing performance for Eskişehirspor by national coach Abdullah Avcı in a friendly against the Slovak national team. When he came on for Arda Turan in the 76th minute , Potuk made his international debut.

After his first international A nomination, he was nominated a second time, but was on the bench for two internationals. He then completed one game for the Turkish U-21 national team and two for the second selection of the Turkish national team, for the A2 selection. From the winter of 2012 he began to play exclusively for the senior national team.

He received special praise from the Turkish press and spectators for his performance in the 2014 World Cup qualifying game against the Hungarian national team on March 26, 2013. In this game, he was the only player in an otherwise weak Turkish national team to shine and pushed him out of midfield the Hungarian defense embarrassed several times.

successes

Eskişehirspor

Fenerbahçe Istanbul

Web links

Commons : Alper Potuk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TFF .org - Match statistics: Gaziantepspor - Eskişehirspor 1: 1 from May 29, 2009
  2. ↑ Weltfussball.de - Match statistics: Eskişehirspor - Samsunspor 1-0 from October 29, 2011
  3. ↑ ntvmsnbc.com: "Alper Potuk transferi olmadı" (accessed June 7, 2013)
  4. ↑ Fenerbahçe SK announces the commitment of Alper Poutk (Turkish) (accessed May 22, 2013)
  5. ↑ tribundergi.com: "İmzayı attı, işte ilk sözleri" (accessed on June 7, 2013)
  6. ↑ haber7.com: "Henri Bienvenu'den 3 yıllık imza!" (accessed June 7, 2013)
  7. ↑ tribundergi.com: "ALPER İMZAYI ATTI!" (accessed June 7, 2013)
  8. ↑ fanatik.com.tr: "Tarihi çalım" ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 7, 2013)
  9. ↑ aksam.com.tr: "Galatasaray Alper Potuk'u resmen açıkladı" (accessed on June 7, 2013)
  10. ↑ cnnturk.com: "Albayrak'tan Alper Potuk açıklaması" (accessed June 7, 2013)
  11. ↑ tff.org: "A Millilerin, Slovakya maçı aday kadrosu açıklandı" (accessed on April 14, 2014)
  12. ↑ tff.org: "Türkiye 1-2 Slovakya" (accessed on April 14, 2014)
  13. ↑ hurriyet.com.tr: "Milli maçta Alper Potuk şov" (accessed on April 14, 2014)
  14. ↑ sabah.com.tr: "Alper Potuk iyiyken çıktı!" (accessed on April 14, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Potuk, Alper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolvadin , Turkey