Levin Öztunali

Levin Öztunali
Image from 2016
Personnel
Surname	Levin Mete Öztunali
birthday	March 15, 1996
place of birth	Hamburg ,  Germany
size	184 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2004	TuRa Harksheide
2004-2006	Eintracht Norderstedt
2006-2013	Hamburger SV
2014	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2016	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	15 (0)
2013-2014	Bayer 04 Leverkusen II	13 (1)
2015-2016	→  Werder Bremen  (loan)	41 (2)
2016–	1. FSV Mainz 05	90 (9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2010-2011	Germany U15	4 (1)
2011–2012	Germany U16	5 (0)
2012-2013	Germany U17	14 (0)
2013-2014	Germany U19	11 (3)
2014-2015	Germany U20	11 (1)
2015-2019	Germany U21	30 (7)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 8, 2020 2 As of June 30, 2019

Levin Mete Öztunali ( Turkish Levin Mete Öztunalı [ ˈœztunɑɫɯ ], born March 15, 1996 in Hamburg ) is a German football player . He has been under contract with Bundesliga club 1. FSV Mainz 05 since the 2016/17 season and is a 75-time German junior national player.

Career

societies

Öztunali was born in Hamburg , the son of a daughter of Uwe Seeler and a Turkish father . He started playing soccer at the Norderstedt club TuRa Harksheide . From 2004 to 2006 he played in the youth club of Eintracht Norderstedt . He then worked for seven seasons in the youth department of Hamburger SV . From July 1, 2012, Öztunali played twelve times in the A-Juniors Bundesliga for Hamburger SV.

In January 2013, HSV offered him a contract for a further three years. However, on the advice of his father, he decided to accept an offer from Bayer 04 Leverkusen . There he received a contract that ran until June 30, 2018. Öztunali made his Bundesliga debut - and thus his first appearance as a professional - on August 10, 2013 (1st matchday) in a 3-1 win at home against SC Freiburg with his substitution for Gonzalo Castro in the 87th minute of the game. At 17 years and 146 days, his commitment made him the club's youngest Bundesliga player to date. In order to gain match practice, Öztunali was loaned to Werder Bremen from the second half of the 2014/15 season until June 30, 2016 . At the start of the second half of the season on February 1, 2015, he made his debut for Werder in the Bundesliga: He was in the starting line-up in the 2-0 win against Hertha BSC . For Werder, he scored his first Bundesliga goal with the 2-1 goal in the 3-2 defeat against Borussia Dortmund on May 23, 2015, the last matchday of the 2014/15 season. In July 2016, he returned to Leverkusen and completed the preparation with the team.

At the end of August 2016, he signed a five-year contract with 1. FSV Mainz 05 . With the Mainz team he took part in the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League , but the FSV was eliminated in the group stage.

National team

The midfielder has played international matches for the DFB's youth teams since 2010 . On September 6, 2013 in Groesbeek in the 6-1 win against the Netherlands , he made his debut in the U-19 national team and scored the goal to make it 2-0 in the 15th minute. In May 2015, Öztunali played at the U-20 World Cup in New Zealand . At the U-21 European Championship 2017 in Poland, Öztunali made two short appearances in the game against Denmark and in the final against Spain after being substituted on and won the title with the team. With 30 appearances for the U-21 team, he played after Fabian Ernst with one more appearance (as of 2019) the second most games for the team in their history.

successes

National team

• U-21 European Champion : 2017
• U-19 European Champion : 2014

Awards

• Fritz Walter Medal in Silver 2014

Web links

Commons : Levin Öztunali  - collection of images

• Levin Öztunali in the database of weltfussball.de
• Levin Öztunali in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Levin Öztunali in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Levin Öztunali in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RP-Online: Seeler rages after his grandson moves to Bayer 04 , February 4, 2013, accessed on December 23, 2014
2. ↑ youth football , www.hafo.de from September 2, 2013
3. ↑ Eintracht Norderstedt received 1,200 euros from the DFB ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), www.hfv.de
4. ↑ Bayer's offensive trio is about to get going
5. ^ Levin Öztunali: Seeler's grandson writes history . Bild.de, August 11, 2013.
6. ↑ Werder Bremen: Levin Öztunali strengthens SV Werder ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), December 21, 2014, accessed on December 21, 2014.
7. ↑ Levin Öztunali moves to Mainz ( Memento from August 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); bayer04.de, published and accessed on August 25, 2016
8. ↑ Öztunali becomes 05er mainz05.de, accessed on August 25, 2015