Ozan Kabak

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Ozan Kabak
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Ozan Kabak (2019)
Personnel
Surname Ozan Muhammed Kabak
birthday March 25, 2000
place of birth Çankaya ( Ankara ),  Turkey
size 186 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
0000–2011 Silivrispor
2011-2017 Galatasaray Istanbul
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2017-2018 Galatasaray Istanbul U21 6 (0)
2018-2019 Galatasaray Istanbul 14 (0)
2019 VfB Stuttgart 15 (3)
2019– FC Schalke 04 18 (3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
Turkey U14
2015 Turkey U15 7 (1)
2015-2016 Turkey U16 15 (5)
2016-2017 Turkey U17 17 (3)
2018 Turkey U18 11 (4)
2019– Turkey 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 22, 2020

2 As of November 17, 2019

Ozan Muhammed Kabak (born March 25, 2000 in Çankaya ) is a Turkish football player . He is under contract with the German Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 and is a national team player.

Career

Player profile

Kabak is a 1.86 m tall defender . His core task on the defensive is central defense with his primary headball game , tackling strengths and responsiveness, otherwise he is considered calm and good at handling the ball when building up the game. Furthermore, as a defender on the offensive, he is considered dangerous when the balls are inactive ( standard situations ).

society

The beginnings

Kabak went to school in Silivri in the west of the metropolis of Istanbul . There he played football regularly during school breaks and in physical education . The sports teacher recognized his footballing talent and recommended Kabak's father to enroll his son in a football club. This was supported by his father as a former amateur soccer player and so Kabak began club soccer in the youth of Silivrispor . He began his football career as an offensive player in the central attack . As a talented footballer, Kabak was allowed to train with the next higher football grades and was used in preparatory games. Due to his footballing achievements, the youth coach of Silivrispor recommended him to the youth department of Galatasaray Istanbul and thus he was invited to a trial training session , which Kabak successfully completed. In 2011, at the age of 11, he became a Galatasaray youth player. In the yellow-reds , Kabak was retrained as a defender because he was able to build up the game well from behind. After two years, the trained central defender received an amateur contract. In 2017, Kabak received a professional contract and rose to the reserve team ( Galatasaray Istanbul U21 ) of the professionals.

In the derby against city rivals Beşiktaş Istanbul , Kabak was appointed to the first team for the first time. Two weeks later, on May 12, 2018, he made his debut in the 2-0 home win of the eventual Turkish champions against Yeni Malatyaspor in the Süper Lig , when coach Fatih Terim replaced him in the final minutes for Ryan Donk . Later in October 2018, as a defender in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League , 2018/19 , Kabak made his club European cup debut and a 0-0 draw against FC Schalke 04 without a goal . He played a total of 18 competitive games for Galatasaray.

In early January 2019 the 18-year-old Kabak according to his footballing achievements of UEFA - reporters chosen among the 50 top talents of the future, which could cause a stir in 2019.

Change to Europe

On January 17, 2019, at the age of 18, the central defender moved to the German Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart , with whom he signed a contract that runs until 2024 , for the sum of around 11 million euros , replacing Pablo Maffeo as the previous club-internal record transfer. In the 1: 4 away defeat at Bayern Munich , Kabak made his Bundesliga debut while in the starting line-up and scored his first two goals as a professional on matchday 24 against Hannover 96 .

After VfB Stuttgart's relegation, Kabak moved to FC Schalke 04 for the 2019/20 season , with whom he received a contract that was valid until June 2024. At the beginning of 2020, Kabak became one of the top performers in the Royal Blues .

National team

Kabak was first used for Turkey in the U14. More games followed in the U15 and U16. With the U17 he took part in the U17 European Championship 2017 in Croatia , where he made five appearances and scored one goal. Kabak acted as a regular player and reached the semi-finals with the team, he was also one of the ten most noticeable footballing talents of the tournament. With the EM semi-finals, Kabak qualified with the team for the U17 World Cup , which followed five months later and he was part of the squad again.

In the last European Championship qualifier against Andorra , the defender made his debut for the Turkish A selection in November 2019 . With him in the starting eleven was his Schalke team-mate Ahmed Kutucu .

successes

  • Awards
    • Bundesliga Rookie Award of the month: March 2019
    • Bundesliga Rookie Award of the season: 2018/19
    • FC Schalke 04 player of the month: November 2019
  • Nominations
    • Best Bundesliga team on the day of the Sportschau : 24th matchday of the 2018/19 season
    • Best Bundesliga team of the game day of the kicker sports magazine : 24th matchday of the 2018/19 season, 13th matchday of the 2019/20 season

Life and miscellaneous

His parents migrated for work reasons from the Southeast Anatolian Derik of Mardin province to the capital Ankara in Turkey, so Kabak 2000 was the son of a Turkish Staatsbediensten in the village of Çankaya , a municipality and district of the central Anatolian city municipality Ankara , on the world. Furthermore, he grew up with an older sister and a younger brother in Silivri, around 80 km west of central Istanbul, and went to school there because his father was stationed there as the prison director . Kabak finished high school in Istanbul with a degree and his strongest subject was physics . In addition to the Turkish language , he can also converse in Kurdish and English .

reception

"[Ozan Kabak] certainly one of the greatest defensive talents in Europe"

- FC Schalke 04 coach David Wagner (July 2019) : Original sound

literature

Web links

Commons : Ozan Kabak  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b see web link → Ozan Kabak in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English) → Personal Information → Place of Birth: Ankara / Çankaya (accessed on February 22, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p see literature → Tam Saha. In: TFF'in Aylıkk Futbol Dergisi. July 2017, No. 152. Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu, Turkey July 2017 (accessed February 22, 2020)
  3. ↑ a b Ozan Kabak: With a run-up to the head of defense at FC Schalke 04. Hard to overcome defensively. In: www. bundesliga .com. DFL German Football League , November 2019, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Gregor Preiß: Have a good laugh: VfB defender Ozan Kabak. Photo gallery - image 9 of 10. In: www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Stuttgarter Zeitung (StZ), March 6, 2019, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c see web link → Ozan Kabak in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English) → Career History (accessed on February 22, 2020)
  6. ↑ Match report: Galatasaray - Yeni Malatyaspor, May 12, 2018 in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish). Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ Ozan Kabak in the UEFA .com database . Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  8. ↑ see web link → Ozan Kabak in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish) → İstatistik → Takım Bazında (accessed on February 22, 2020)
  9. ↑ UEFA .com: UEFA looks ahead: 50 top talents for the future (January 1, 2019) . Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  10. ↑ kicker.de : VfB pays a record sum: Galatasaray confirms Kabak transfer , January 17, 2019 . Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  11. ↑ Ozan Muhammed Kabak'ın transfer görüşmelerine başlandı , galatasaray.org, accessed on January 17, 2019 (Turkish)
  12. ↑ VfB commits Ozan Kabak vfb.de, accessed on January 17, 2019.
  13. ↑ Match report: FC Bayern Munich - VfB Stuttgart in the database of kicker.de . Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  14. ↑ Match report: VfB Stuttgart - Hannover 96 in the database of kicker.de . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  15. ↑ FC Schalke 04 sign Ozan Kabak , schalke04.de, accessed on June 30, 2019.
  16. ↑ a b c Joris Wittkugel: Schalkes Ozan Kabak - top performers with a great future. In: Sportschau .de. ARD , February 14, 2020, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  17. ↑ UEFA .com: Ten talents from the U17 EURO in Croatia on May 22, 2017. Accessed on February 22, 2020.
  18. ↑ Ozan Kabak in the database of EU-Football.info (English). Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  19. ↑ Ahmed Kutucu and Ozan Kabak make their debut for Turkey, Rudy comments on his time at Royal Blue , goal.com, accessed on November 18, 2019.
  20. ↑ Ozan Kabak wins player of the month election. In: schalke04.de. FC Schalke 04 , December 2019, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Fortuna Düsseldorf storms the arena on Schalke and with three players also the eleven of the 24th match day. FC Augsburg and VfB Stuttgart are represented twice. In: Sportschau .de. ARD , March 4, 2019, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Bundesliga Eleven of the Day 2018/19 - 24th matchday in the database of kicker.de . Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  23. ↑ Bundesliga Eleven of the Day 2019/20 - 13th matchday in the database of kicker.de . Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  24. ↑ a b Gregor Preiß: Have a good laugh: VfB defender Ozan Kabak. Photo gallery - picture 2 of 10. In: www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Stuttgarter Zeitung (StZ), March 6, 2019 .;
  25. ↑ Frank Nordhausen : Silivri - Largest prison in Turkey. In: rp-online.de. Rheinische Post , August 23, 2017, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
  26. ↑ a b Gregor Preiß: Have a good laugh: VfB defender Ozan Kabak. Photo gallery - picture 6 of 10. In: www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Stuttgarter Zeitung (StZ), March 6, 2019, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kabak, Ozan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kabak, Ozan Muhammed (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Çankaya , Turkey