Berkant Goktan

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Berkant Goktan
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Berkant Göktan (2007)
Personnel
birthday December 12, 1980
place of birth Munich ,  Germany
size 176 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1987-1989 Helios Munich
1989-1998 FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2001 FC Bayern Munich 2 0(0)
1999 →  Borussia M'gladbach  (loan) 5 0(0)
1999-2000 →  Arminia Bielefeld  (loan) 14 0(1)
2001-2004 Galatasaray Istanbul 41 0(9)
2004-2005 Beşiktaş Istanbul 4 0(1)
2005-2006 1. FC Kaiserslautern 7 0(1)
2006-2008 TSV 1860 Munich II 14 0(5)
2006-2008 TSV 1860 Munich 37 (20)
2010–2012 Muangthong United 0 0(0)
2013-2014 SV Heimstetten 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998-2001 Turkey U-21 29 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Berkant Göktan (born December 12, 1980 in Munich ) is a former German-Turkish soccer player who played for four clubs in the Bundesliga .

Career

societies

After two years at Helios Munich , Göktan moved to the youth department of FC Bayern Munich at the age of nine and stayed there until he was 18. After that (until 2001) he was a member of the professional squad and made his debut on October 4, 1998 (7th matchday) in a 2-2 draw against Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga , when he came on for Thorsten Fink in the 78th minute . For Bayern, however, he played his first competitive game on September 30, 1998 in a 2-2 draw against Manchester United in the home game of the preliminary round of the Champions League , when he came on for Hasan Salihamidžić in the 63rd minute.

After five league games for Borussia Mönchengladbach (February 21 to May 4, 1999) and 14 for Arminia Bielefeld in the 1999/2000 season , for which he was active on loan, he returned to Bayern and played another Bundesliga game and 28 regional leagues -Games (12 goals) for the amateur team.

From 2001 to 2005 he played in Turkey ; first for Galatasaray Istanbul , with whom he won the championship title after his first season (21 games; 5 goals) and from 2004 for Beşiktaş Istanbul . In August 2005, shortly after the start of the season, he returned to Germany and signed with 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

For the Bundesliga team he played (until April 5, 2006, due to the early termination of the contract) only seven games and for the second team only one game in the Regionalliga Süd . After half a year without a club, he received a contract with the second division TSV 1860 Munich from September 1, 2006. Initially committed to the second team (up to 2008: 14 games; 1 goal) with the aim of building up, he pushed his achievements into the first and received his first appearance in this from November 3, 2006. In the second half of the season he made his breakthrough with 10 goals in 12 games. At the end of the season he was voted the lion of the 2006/07 season by TSV 1860 fans with almost 50 percent of the vote . In the following season - Göktan received a contract extension until 2009 in April 2007 - he was used 24 times and scored ten times. Shortly before his third season, his contract was extended again (until 2011), but in July 2008 Göktan injured the sole of his foot when he stepped barefoot on a piece of glass. The wound became infected and had to be treated surgically. The injury break lasted relatively long, so rumors of an addiction problem Göktans arose. On October 21, 2008, Göktan's contract was finally terminated without notice due to proven cocaine abuse and he was banned by the DFB for one year. In the summer of 2009 he was offered a return to TSV 1860, which he declined.

In early 2010, Göktan, who has been married to a Thai woman since autumn 2009, signed a contract with the Thai first division club Muangthong United . Until the final separation from the club at the end of July 2012, Göktan did not play a competitive game - not even the two qualifying games for the AFC Champions League 2010 , as he was not yet eligible to play due to the expiry of the registration period on December 30, 2009. After about two years without a job in Thailand , where he was only allowed to train with the reserve team from Muangthong United for a long time, Göktan returned to Munich in the summer of 2012 and was initially without a club. After initial signs of the end of his career, Göktan has been actively looking for a club since autumn 2012, according to press reports.
In March 2013, Göktan joined the fourth-class regional division SV Heimstetten , hoping to be eligible to play in the foreseeable future. In May 2013 he signed the club, for whom he made his debut on October 27, 2013 (20th match day) in the 0-5 defeat in the away game against FC Bayern Munich II , in the 83rd minute. It was his first league game in over five years (most recently on May 18, 2008) since he moved to Thailand. However, the short stint against the "small Bavarians" should also be his only game for SV Heimstetten, because the contractual relationship between the club and the player was terminated by mutual agreement on February 6, 2014. According to the club, the reasons for the termination of the contract were to be found “solely in the private sphere of the player”. Göktan, who had not shown up for training on the days before the contract was terminated, ended his career a little later.

National team

Göktan played 29 times for Turkey's U-21 national team between 1998 and 2001 and scored 10 goals. He made his debut on September 4, 1998 in a 2-0 victory over Northern Ireland when he came on for Nihat Kahveci in the second half . He scored his first international goal on October 9, 1998 in İzmit in a 2-0 win over Germany . Against Macedonia (4: 1; on March 27, 2001) and Azerbaijan (3: 0; on June 1, 2001) he scored two goals each in one game. He played his last international game on November 13, 2001 in a 2-1 win over Greece .

After the active career

After the end of his active career, Göktan stayed away from the media and only returned in October 2019 in an interview with Sport1 . In this, he openly highlighted his intense cocaine and alcohol addiction: “It was stupidity and greed. It was one thing I tried as a young person and then got stuck with. It completely destroyed me, and the club's image also suffered a lot. I couldn't deal with the success at sixty back then. It all happened too fast. It was greed, they were false friends. Once you do drugs, you want to try again. You can't stop. I drank excessively for a very long time (...) I just locked myself in at home and consumed the drugs and alcohol just for myself. ”His teammates also noticed at the time that he had come to training drunk. Göktan is currently living with his wife and two children again in Munich with his parents and brothers. The main reason for the return is his son, who is autistic and could be better supported in Germany.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kicker sports magazine No. 6/3. Where, January 18, 1999, p. 28
  2. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated June 20, 2007  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.presseportal.de
  3. ↑ Göktan terminated ( memento of October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive , originally published on tsv1860.de on October 21, 2008
  4. ↑ Very close! 11freunde.de October 13, 2012
  5. ^ Handelsblatt - Göktan does not go back to 1860 for the time being
  6. ↑ Press release January 21 , 2010 ( Memento from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ afc.com: ACL qualification 'one giant step' for Muangthong says coach press release from February 5, 2010
  8. ↑ Evening newspaper: Göktan looking for a club , accessed on October 8, 2012.
  9. ^ T-Online: Berkant Göktan before comeback at United , accessed on April 25, 2013.
  10. ↑ Abendzeitung Munich: Göktan and Heimstetten - “Berkant has a few kilos too much”, accessed on April 25, 2013
  11. ↑ Göktan signs with SV Heimstetten. Retrieved May 14, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Göktan is eligible to play from summer. Retrieved May 14, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Abendzeitung Munich: Ex-Lion does not come to training - Chapter Göktan in Heimstetten probably ended , accessed on September 7, 2014.
  14. ↑ Turkey 2-0 Germany uefa.com
  15. ↑ Göktan on "Greed" and career-end: "I couldn't process success in 1860". Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Goktan, Berkant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich