Mehmet Bölükbaşı

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Mehmet Bölükbaşı
Personnel
birthday August 24, 1978
place of birth Akçaabat ,  Turkey
size 188 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
until 1996 Akçaabat Sebatspor
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-1997 Akçaabat Sebatspor 22 (0)
1997-2004 Galatasaray Istanbul 23 (0)
2004-2005 İstanbulspor 2 (0)
2005-2007 Çaykur Rizespor 1 (0)
2007 →  Boluspor  (loan) 18 (0)
2007-2008 Samsunspor 7 (0)
2008-2009 Istanbulspor 8 (0)
2009 Bozüyükspor 15 (0)
2010 Tepecikspor 16 (0)
2010-2011 Tarsus İdman Yurdu 9 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998 Turkey U-21 3 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2014– Kartalspor
1 Only league games are given.

Mehmet Bölükbaşı (born August 24, 1978 in Akçaabat ) is a former Turkish football goalkeeper and coach. He was Cláudio Taffarel's replacement at Galatasaray Istanbul at the turn of the millennium and during this time he experienced the greatest club successes, winning the UEFA Cup in the 1999/00 season and winning the UEFA Super Cup in summer 2000. Since he was part of this team, which is known as legendary from the club's point of view, he is regarded as an important player in the club's history from the club and fan side.

Player career

society

Bölükbaşı went through the youth department of Akçaabat Sebatspor , the most famous club in his hometown Akçaabat. For the 1996/97 season he was awarded a professional contract with the then third division team and was included in the professional squad as a replacement for the first goalkeeper Turgay Karali . In his first season, as a 19-year-old, Bölükbaşı guarded the goal in seven league games, drawing attention for the first time. After Karali had left the club at the end of the season, Bölükbaşı rose as a regular goalkeeper and defended the goal in almost all games in the first half of the 1997/98 season.

In the winter break of the 1997/98 season, Bölükbaşı was associated with Galatasaray Istanbul . Here the coach Fatih Terim had signed the Turkish national goalkeeper Volkan Kilimci from Kocaelispor a year earlier . Previously, Terim was not dissatisfied with the recent performances of long-time first goalkeeper Hayrettin Demirbaş , who was also the reigning national goalkeeper . This was made responsible for the failure in the European Cup Winners' Cup of the 1996/97 season . Here Galatasaray met French cup winner Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16 . The first leg was won 4-2, with both goals being the result of goalkeeping errors. The second leg they lost 0: 4, with two of the four goals conceded by the press and the coaching staff from obvious goalkeeping errors. After this end in the European Cup Winners' Cup, Demirbaş was particularly negative at the quarter-finals of the Turkish Football Cup of the 1996/97 season . In the extra time against Gençlerbirliği Ankara , the game ended after extra time 1: 1. In the penalty shootout, Gençlerbirliği won the game 17:16. Since Demirbaş as the reigning national goalkeeper could not save any of the total of 17 penalties, Terim decided to remove Demirbaş from the team in any case during the winter break and replace him with a new goalkeeper. Demirbaş also received negative reviews from the specialist press. Since there was a quota of three players from foreigners in Turkish football at that time and this was already booked at Galatasaray, it was decided to bring in a local goalkeeper. So in the spring of 1997, Terim decided to take on Kilimci. This only ousted Demirbaş and seemed to meet the demands in the second half of the season. After Kilimci but could not convince the first half of the 1997/98 season, Terim urged the club management for the commitment of another local goalkeeper. So Bölükbaşı was hired as a great young hope during the winter break. He immediately ousted Kilimci as the first goalkeeper. With his club Bölükbaşı finished the season as the Turkish champion . After Bölükbaşı did not seem to meet the demands of head coach Terim, he decided together with the club management to sign a foreign goalkeeper and brought in the Brazilian national goalkeeper Cláudio Taffarel . Taffarel immediately ousted Bölükbaşı as the goalkeeper. Bölükbaşı started the new season with his team by winning the pre-season TSYD Istanbul tournament . In addition, his team defended the title in the Turkish championship. Bölükbaşı was used in three competitive games this season. In the 1999/2000 season saw the first goalkeeper Taffarel in the Champions League encounter on September 28, 1999 against Chelsea, the red card and had to be replaced by Bölükbaşı for the rest of the season. With this encounter Bölükbaşı also made his debut in this league. Since Taffarel was also out because of the red card suspension in the second leg against Chelsea, Bölükbaşı also guarded the goal in the second leg and got negative in the headlines after the game. The second leg played on October 20, 1999, Galatasaray lost 0: 5 in front of a home crowd and thus experienced one of the bitterest defeats in the club's history. After this encounter, Bölükbaşı was portrayed by the trade press as one of the main culprits for the defeat. Nevertheless, Terim held to Bölükbaşı and used him in another five competitive games by the end of the season. At the end of the season, Bölükbaşı's team defended the Turkish championship and became Turkish champions for the fourth time in a row. In addition, Bölükbaşı and his team won the Turkish Cup and became the Turkish double winner . Bölükbaşı was also the second goalkeeper of the Galatasaray team that won the UEFA Cup this season and thus achieved the greatest success in the club's history. He stayed with Galatasaray for the next four seasons, but was demoted to third goalkeeper behind Kerem İnan by new head coach Mircea Lucescu for the first two seasons . In the two-year Lucescu era, Bölükbaşı did not play a competitive match, but won the UEFA Super Cup and the Turkish championship with his team . After Fatih Terim was hired again as head coach in the summer of 2002, Bölükbaşı came back to sporadic competitive games.

In the summer of 2004 Bölükbaşı left after six and a half seasons Galatasaray and moved to league and city rivals İstanbulspor . After just one season he moved on to the first division club Çaykur Rizespor . Here he only spent the first half of the season and was loaned to the second division Boluspor for the second half of the season. After Bölükbaşı had spent the 2007/08 season with the second division Samsunspor and Istanbulspor, he continued his career in the TFF 2. Lig , the third highest Turkish division, from the summer of 2008 . In May 2011 he finally ended his career with the third division club.

National team

Bölükbaşı completed three missions for the Turkish U-21 national team during his time at Galatasaray Istanbul .

Coaching career

From the summer of 2014 Bölükbaşı began to work as an assistant coach for the Istanbul third division club Kartalspor .

successes

With Galatasaray Istanbul
With Sakaryaspor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milliyet, November 30, 1996, p. 29.
  2. ↑ January 6, 1998, Milliyet, p. 30: "Rüştü gibi Mehmet"
  3. ↑ October 21, 1999, Milliyet, p. 30: "Kara Carşamba"
personal data
SURNAME Bölükbaşı, Mehmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Akçaabat , Turkey