Murat Yakin

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Murat Yakin
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Murat Yakin (2014)
Personnel
birthday 15th September 1974
place of birth Basel ,  Switzerland
Size 184 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1982-1992 Concordia Basel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1997 Grasshopper Club Zurich 101 (17)
1997-1998 VfB Stuttgart 23 0(2)
1998-1999 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 26 0(3)
2000 FC Basel 23 0(1)
2000-2001 1. FC Kaiserslautern 9 0(0)
2001-2006 FC Basel 91 (24)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-2004 Switzerland 49 0(4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006-2007 Concordia Basel
2007-2009 Grasshopper Club Zurich (assistant trainer)
2009-2011 FC Thun
2011–2012 FC Luzern
2012-2014 FC Basel
2014-2015 Spartak Moscow
2016-2017 FC Schaffhausen
2017-2018 Grasshopper Club Zurich
2018-2019 FC Sion
2019– FC Schaffhausen
1 Only league games are given.

Murat Yakin (born September 15, 1974 in Basel ) is a former Swiss football player and today's football coach. He has been the coach of FC Schaffhausen since June 2019 .

Career as a player

societies

Yakin's football talent was recognized and promoted by the Concordia Basel association . In 1992 he started his professional career at Grasshopper Club Zurich , where he was a defender for five years. During this time he played 101 games, scored 17 goals and won the Swiss Cup in 1994 and Swiss champions in 1995 and 1996 .

For the 1997/98 Bundesliga season , Yakin moved to VfB Stuttgart ; in the 1998/99 season and on the first match days of the 1999/2000 season he played in the Turkish Süper Lig for Fenerbahçe Istanbul before returning to FC Basel.

After a detour to 1. FC Kaiserslautern , for which he played nine games in the 2000/01 Bundesliga season , Yakin returned to Switzerland and signed a contract with FC Basel , where he started his career as a player on June 30, 2006 finished. In 2002 and 2003, Yakin won the Swiss Cup with his team and in 2002, 2004 and 2005 he became Swiss champions with the Basel team. In 2002 Yakin qualified for the UEFA Champions League with FC Basel .

Swiss national team

Yakin played 49 games for the Swiss national football team between 1994 and 2004 , scoring four goals. His greatest success in the national team, in which he wore the shirt number 5, was Switzerland's qualification for the 2004 European Championship in Portugal.

Career as a coach

After finishing his football career, Yakin took over the coaching position at his youth club Concordia Basel in 2006 . From summer 2007 he was assistant coach at the Grasshopper Club Zurich , where he was placed at the side of the club's chief coach, Hanspeter Latour . He later trained the U-21s at GC .

FC Thun

On June 5, 2009, Yakin signed a contract valid until June 2011 as head coach at FC Thun . FC Thun then won the Challenge League championship title and returned to the Super League after a two-year absence. At the beginning of August 2010, the contract, which was valid until 2011, was extended for another year to June 30, 2012.

FC Luzern

Despite this contract extension, Yakin moved to FC Luzern as head coach for the 2011/12 season. There he met his younger brother Hakan , who was part of the Lucerne team. In his first season at FC Luzern, he led the club to the Swiss Cup final and finished the Super League in second place behind FC Basel. After only three points had been scored in the first six games in the 2012/13 season, Yakin was released on August 20, 2012 and replaced by Ryszard Komornicki .

FC Basel

On October 15, 2012, FC Basel signed Yakin as the successor to the previously dismissed coach Heiko Vogel and became Swiss champions with him in 2013 and 2014. On May 17, 2014 it was announced that the collaboration would not be continued.

Spartak Moscow

On June 15, 2014, Yakin signed a two-year contract with the Russian football club Spartak Moscow . After just one year, the contract with Spartak Moscow was terminated by mutual agreement after both the president and the general manager had left the club.

FC Schaffhausen

On December 21, 2016, Yakin signed a contract as head coach at FC Schaffhausen, which was valid until June 30, 2017 . On April 27, 2017, it was extended for a further year to June 30, 2018.

Grasshopper Club Zurich

On August 25, 2017, he took over from Carlos Bernegger as the coach of Grasshopper Club Zurich in the Swiss Super League . Yakin was released in April 2018.

FC Sion

On September 17, 2018, Yakin took over the coaching position at FC Sion, where he stayed until his release in May 2019.

Return to Schaffhausen

In June 2019 he returned as a coach to the Challenge League club FC Schaffhausen, in which he also holds shares.

Others

Murat Yakin played himself in a brief appearance during recordings for the Swiss film Ferienfieber . The athlete, who grew up in Münchenstein , is of Turkish descent, the older brother of Hakan Yakin and the younger half-brother of Ertan Irizik , both of whom are also former football professionals .

titles and achievements

As a player

Grasshopper Club Zurich :

FC Basel :

As a trainer

FC Basel:

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Komornicki is Yakin's successor at FC Luzern. In: Tages-Anzeiger August 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ FCB throws the bird out - Yakin takes over! In: Blick October 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ Murat Yakin leaves FC Basel 1893. (No longer available online.) FC Basel 1893, May 17, 2014, archived from the original on May 21, 2014 ; accessed on May 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcb.ch
  4. ↑ a b Trainer profile - Murat Yakin. transfermarkt.ch, accessed on January 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Despite contract until 2016: Yakin leaves Spartak Moscow! blick.ch, accessed on January 20, 2016 .
  6. ^ Coach castling at Grasshopper and FC Schaffhausen. Grasshopper Club Zurich, August 25, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Two families are one too many - how FC Schaffhausen is being reinvented NZZ on Sunday, August 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Yakin, Murat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland