Mert Çetin

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Mert Çetin
Personnel
Surname Yıldırım Mert Çetin
birthday January 1, 1997
place of birth Çankaya ( Ankara ),  Turkey
size 189 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
2008-2015 Gençlerbirliği Ankara
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015-2017 Hacettepe SK 30 (1)
2015-2016 → Gençlerbirliği Ankara U21 (loan) 22 (2)
2015-2016 →  Gençlerbirliği Ankara  (loan) 0 (0)
2017 Gençlerbirliği Ankara U21 3 (0)
2017-2019 Gençlerbirliği Ankara 27 (1)
2019– AS Roma 6 (0)
2020– →  Hellas Verona  (loan) 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2018 Turkey U21 3 (0)
2019– Turkey 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 18, 2019

Yıldırım Mert Çetin (born January 1, 1997 in Çankaya ) is a Turkish football player who has been under contract with AS Roma since August 2019 and was loaned to the Italian first division club Hellas Verona for the 2020/21 season.

Career

society

Çetin was born in the town of Çankaya , a municipality and at the same time a district of the central Anatolian city ​​of Ankara . With the club football he started in the youth department of Gençlerbirliği Ankara . In the summer of 2015, Çetin switched to the Hacettepe SK farm team , where he signed a professional contract. In the same transfer window he was loaned back to Gençlerbirliği Ankara for a season. There the under 20-year-old Çetin was only used in the reserve team (Gençlerbirliği Ankara U21). For the 2016/17 season he returned to his professional club Hacettepe SK and played 31 competitive games.

In August 2017, Çetin moved back to his youth club Gençlerbirliği Ankara, but this time as a professional player. He initially played again for the reserve team, but in autumn 2017 Çetin was promoted to the professional team, which played in the Süper Lig , Turkish top division. He made his game debut for the professional team in the Turkish Cup in the cup game on October 25, 2017 against Tuzlaspor , later in the league game against Kayserispor on November 19, 2017 , he made his Süper Lig professional debut. After relegation to the second division in 2018 , TFF 1st Lig , Çetin advanced to become a regular player in the professional team and played for direct promotion or second division championship.

According to Turkish media reports in March 2019, the traditional Turkish club and first division Trabzonspor and the talent scouts from the French first division OSC Lille were interested in him to sign him for the next season.

After a direct resurgence in May 2019 with Gençlerbirliği in the Süper Lig, in which he played a major role, the 22-year-old Çetin moved to the Italian first division club and traditional club AS Roma in August 2019 for a transfer fee of three million euros and signed a five-year contract with them. In October 2019, Çetin made his Serie A game debut in a 2-1 win over AC Milan . In his first season with the Romans, he came to six league appearances.

For the 2020/21 season , Çetin was awarded to league competitor Hellas Verona in August 2020 , including a purchase option to “collect more match practice” there.

National team

Çetin began his national team career in September 2018 with a commitment for the Turkish U21 national team in qualifying for the 2019 U21 European Championship .

After his club change to AS Roma in Italy, the Turkish senior national coach Şenol Güneş nominated him for the first time in the Turkish senior national team for the qualifying matches for the 2020 European Championship in August 2019 . In the last qualifier against Andorra , the 22-year-old Çetin came in November 2019 his senior international debut by asking for Merih Demiral substitute was.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Yıldırım Mert Çetin. (No longer available online.) In: Gençlerbirliği Ankara . Gençlerbirliği Spor Kulübü, archived from the original on April 27, 2019 ; Retrieved August 25, 2019 (Turkish).
  2. ^ A b Roma complete Mert Cetin signing. AS Roma are delighted to announce the signing of Turkish defender Yildrim Mert Cetin on a permanent transfer. In: AS Roma . Associazione Sportiva Roma SpA, August 16, 2019, accessed August 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Ufficiale: Mert Çetin primo rinforzo per la stagione 2020-21. In: hellasverona.it. Hellas Verona Football Club SpA, August 24, 2020, accessed August 25, 2020 (Italian).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f see web links → Mert Çetin in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English) → Career History (accessed on April 2, 2019)
  5. ↑ a b c see web links → Mert Çetin in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English) → Matches → choose: Season → 2017–2018 (accessed on April 2, 2019)
  6. ↑ a b Sabah.com.tr : Trabzonspor'dan Mert Çetin'e kanca (Turkish) from March 31, 2019
  7. ↑ CNNTurk.com : Lille Gençlerbirliği'nden Mert Çetin'in peşinde (Turkish) of March 30, 2019
  8. ↑ Chris Ehrhardt: AS Roma gets Mert Cetin. In: Hürriyet .de. Demirören Media International GmbH, August 17, 2019, accessed on August 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Mert Çetin in the Serie A database , accessed December 9, 2019
  10. ↑ a b AS Roma gives Turkish international Cetin to Hellas Verona. Only six season appearances in Rome. In: Hürriyet .de. Demirören Media International GmbH, August 7, 2020, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
  11. ↑ see web links → Mert Çetin in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English) → National Team Matches (accessed April 2, 2019)
  12. ↑ GazeteFutbol.de: European Championship qualification Turkey - Senol Günes nominated 15 legionnaires! from August 30, 2019
  13. ↑ Mert Çetin in the database of EU-Football.info (English). Retrieved December 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Çetin, Mert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Çetin, Yıldırım Mert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Çankaya , Turkey