Hakan Şükür

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Hakan Şükür
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Hakan Şükür (2006)
Personnel
birthday 1st September 1971
place of birth Adapazarı ,  Turkey
size 191 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Sakaryaspor
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1990 Sakaryaspor 38 0(19)
1990-1992 Bursaspor 44 0(12)
1992-1995 Galatasaray Istanbul 90 0(54)
1995 Torino FC 5 00(1)
1995-2000 Galatasaray Istanbul 156 (119)
2000-2001 Inter Milan 24 00(5)
2002 AC Parma 15 00(3)
2002-2003 Blackburn Rovers 9 00(2)
2003-2008 Galatasaray Istanbul 117 0(55)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992-2007 Turkey 112 0(51)
1 Only league games are given.

Hakan Şükür (born September 1, 1971 in Adapazarı , Sakarya ) is a former Turkish football player and politician .

His nickname is "Kral" (Eng. "King"). Because of his size, he is also called "the bull from the Bosporus ", although he does not come from Istanbul (the former Turkish boxer Sinan Şamil Sam had the same nickname ).

Player career

At the beginning of his career, Hakan Şükür played for his hometown club Sakaryaspor , where he made his debut in the Süper Lig in 1988 when he was just 17 years old . Two years later he moved to Bursaspor . Not least because of his outstanding header game , the larger clubs quickly noticed him.

Although he later said he played “not particularly well” in Bursa, the 20-year-old played his first game for the Turkish national team against Luxembourg in March 1992 . In the summer of the same year he moved to the national top club Galatasaray Istanbul .

A goal by Hakan Şükür in 1994 proved to be life-saving - without his knowing it. The student Ilhan Çomak, a political prisoner, was tortured by police in prison in Istanbul's Bayrampaşa district and hung by his feet. One of the torturers said, “Pray that Galatasaray will score a goal, I swear, otherwise I won't let you down.” Şükür scored the goal.

At Galatasaray, Şükür became part of the defining Turkish team of the 1990s. After joining the club in 1992, it won the Turkish championship six times and the cup four times by 2000. From 1997 to 1999, Şükür was the league's top scorer three times in a row . Galatasaray's greatest success was the 2000 UEFA Cup , making it the first Turkish club to win a UEFA title.

During this time, Şükür took part with the national team at the European Championships in 1996 and 2000 . While Turkey was eliminated in the preliminary round at their first European Championship participation, the team reached the quarter-finals in 2000.

In 1995 Şükür played briefly for the Italian club Torino Calcio . In 2000, the year of his greatest successes to date, winning the UEFA Cup and making it to the quarter-finals of the European Championship, he moved back to Serie A and joined the top club Inter Milan . However, he was not successful at the Nerazzurri and he only played 24 games in a year and a half before moving to AC Parma in January 2002 .

In the summer of 2002 he took part with Turkey in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea , where the team was the third best team behind Brazil and Germany . In the game for third place against South Korea (3-2), Şükür scored the fastest goal in World Cup history after eleven seconds.

After moving to Parma in 2002, the now over 30-year-old Şükür was unable to assert himself either at AC or at his subsequent club, the English first division club Blackburn Rovers . In the summer of 2003, after only three years in Western Europe, he moved back to Istanbul to Galatasaray, where he won the Turkish championship two more times. After his contract with Galatasaray expired on June 30, 2008, he officially ended his career in November 2008.

Hakan Şükür saw only one red card in his entire career; on May 26, 2006 in a game against Samsunspor, which Bülent Uzun directed. He scored 51 goals in 112 international matches, making him the top goalscorer for the Turkish national team.

Şükür also worked as an expert on the football program Maraton at LigTV , where he later left for political reasons.

Politician career

For the parliamentary elections on June 12, 2011 , Şükür ran for the Turkish ruling party AKP in the province of Istanbul and entered parliament. On December 16, 2013, however, Şükür declared his exit from the AKP, accusing it of “hostile steps” against the Fethullah Gülen movement.

In February 2016, Şükür was charged with insulting the president : he was accused of distributing insulting statements about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Twitter and also of insulting his son Bilal Erdoğan . Şükür had this denied through his lawyers.

According to a report by the state news agency Anadolu , Şükür is being searched for by the public prosecutor's office in his home country after the failed coup in Turkey . Şükür is accused of being a Gülen supporter and thus a “member of an armed terrorist organization”. His father Selmet Şükür had also been put out to be searched. For these reasons, Hakan Şükür has been in the United States since 2015 .

Under pressure from Sports Minister Akif Çağatay Kılıç , Şükür was withdrawn from Galatasaray Istanbul in 2017, even though the club members had voted against it by a majority the day before.

In January 2020, Şükür was available for an interview for the first time and described his life situation to the world . He lives in Washington, DC and earns his living as a driver for Uber because all of his assets have been frozen in Turkey and property has been confiscated. He also denied his membership of the Gülen movement , for which he is currently charged in Turkey.

Achievements and titles

As a national player

With his clubs

Awards

  • Top scorer in the Turkish League : 1997 (38 goals), 1998 (32 goals), 1999 (19 goals)
  • IFFHS world's best first division goalscorer: 1997 (38 goals)
  • Fastest World Cup goal (World Cup 2002, game for 3rd place) after 11 seconds against hosts South Korea

Career statistics

society league season league Nat. Cup European Cup Other total
Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates
Sakaryaspor Super Lig 1987/88 3 0 2 1 - - - - 5 1
1988/89 11 5 - - - - - - 11 5
1989/90 27 5 - - - - - - 27 5
total 41 10 2 1 - - - - 43 11
Bursaspor Super Lig 1990/91 27 4th - - - - - - 27 4th
1991/92 27 7th 7th 3 - - - - 34 10
total 54 11 7th 3 - - - - 61 14th
Galatasaray SK Super Lig 1992/93 30th 19th 8th 5 6th 2 - - 47 26th
1993/94 27 16 7th 4th 9 0 - - 43 20th
1994/95 33 19th 7th 1 8th 5 - - 48 25th
total 90 54 22nd 10 23 7th - - 135 71
AC Turin Series A 1995/96 5 1 - - - - - - 5 1
total 5 1 - - - - - - 5 1
Galatasaray SK Super Lig 1995/96 25th 16 7th 2 - - - - 32 18th
1996/97 32 38 3 4th 4th 4th - - 39 46
1997/98 34 32 9 2 7th 0 - - 50 34
1998/99 33 19th 9 2 7th 6th - - 49 27
1999/00 32 14th 5 1 17th 10 - - 54 25th
total 156 119 33 15th 35 20th - - 224 152
Inter Milan Series A 2000/01 24 5 1 0 9 1 - - 34 6th
total 24 5 1 0 9 1 - - 34 6th
AC Parma Series A 2001/02 15th 3 - - 1 0 - - 16 3
total 15th 3 - - 1 0 - - 16 3
Blackburn Rovers Premier League 2002/03 9 2 - - - - - - 9 2
total 9 2 - - - - - - 9 2
Galatasaray SK Super Lig 2003/04 28 12 1 0 9 6th - - 38 18th
2004/05 33 18th 3 4th - - - - 36 22nd
2005/06 31 10 4th 2 2 1 - - 37 13
2006/07 26th 4th 2 0 6th 1 - - 34 5
2007/08 28 11 4th 1 9 2 - - 41 14th
total 146 55 14th 7th 26th 10 - - 186 72
Career total 540 260 79 34 94 38 - - 709 332

Source:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bülent Mumay : When they tortured him, a Galatasaray game was playing . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 6, 2016, p. 14.
  2. ↑ The fastest World Cup goals
  3. ↑ Hakan Sükür - Century of International Appearances
  4. ↑ Dispute over schools in Turkey: Ex-soccer star Sükür leaves Erdogan's AKP , Spiegel Online , December 16, 2013
  5. ↑ Turkey: Ex-soccer star Sükür is said to be in custody for insulting Erdogan . spiegel.de. February 24, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ Erdogan has football legend Sükür searched for by arrest warrant , welt.de, August 12, 2016
  7. ↑ Article “Footballeurs qui ont percé en politique” in France Football of November 7, 2017, here p. 8
  8. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Instructions from the Minister of Sports: Galatasaray throws out club legends - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Sport. Retrieved March 27, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Football legend railed against the Turkish government - and had swipes ready for Özil and Gündogan. January 13, 2020, accessed January 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Hakan Sükür. In: footballdatabase.eu. Accessed February 13, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Hakan Şükür. In: national-football-teams.com. Accessed February 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Şükür, Hakan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1st September 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Sakarya