Semih Kaya

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Semih Kaya
Semih Kaya'14-15.JPG
Kaya in the jersey of Gala (2014)
Personnel
birthday February 24, 1991
place of birth Bergama ,  Turkey
size 183 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
2004-2006 Altay Izmir
2006-2009 Galatasaray Istanbul
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2017 Galatasaray Istanbul 142 (5)
2010 →  Gaziantepspor  (loan) 1 (0)
2010-2011 →  Kartalspor  (loan) 18 (0)
2017– Sparta Prague 28 (2)
2019 → Galatasaray Istanbul (loan) 5 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2005-2006 Turkey U-15 3 (1)
2006 Turkey U-16 9 (0)
2006-2008 Turkey U17 23 (1)
2008 Turkey U18 1 (0)
2009-2011 Turkey U-21 4 (0)
2012– Turkey 23 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of November 22, 2019

2 As of March 29, 2017

Semih Kaya (born February 24, 1991 in Bergama ) is a Turkish football player who has played for Sparta Prague since 2017 .

Family and childhood

Kaya was born to Macedonian Turks in the western Turkish city of Bergama . Both strands of the family emigrated from what is now Macedonia to Turkey. His parents' families came from Skopje .

Career

society

When he was ten, Semih Kaya started his football career at Petkimspor. After a year he moved to Helvaci and played there for a season and a half until he moved to Altay İzmir and played there for 2 years. After a game between Altay İzmir's youth teams and Galatasaray Istanbul , Galatasaray Semih Kaya took on. In the 2008/09 season he was appointed to the 1st team by Michael Skibbe . His first game for Galatasaray was on January 17, 2009 in the Turkish Cup and on April 19, 2009 he made his debut against Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor in the Turkcell Süper Lig .

For the second half of the 2009/10 season , Kaya was awarded to Gaziantepspor . Gaziantepspor had a purchase option on him. The 2010/11 season Kaya played for the second division Kartalspor .

His breakthrough at Galatasaray came in the 2011/12 season when he ousted Servet Çetin and was able to play his way into the regular formation. This season he was able to win the championship with his team. For the 2017/18 season, Kaya moved to Sparta Prague . At the end of the 2018/19 season, Kaya became Turkish champion for the fourth time.

National team

Starting with the Turkish U-15 national team, Kaya went through almost all age groups of the Turkish national team. After working for the Turkish U-21 national team from 2009 to 2011 , he also started playing for the Turkish national team from 2012 . Kaya made his debut for the senior national team on February 29, 2012 in a friendly against Slovakia.

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Turkish squad . However, like two other field players from the squad, he was not used in the tournament.

successes

Kaya in the UEFA Champions League against Chelsea

Galatasaray Istanbul

Web links

Commons : Semih Kaya  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hurriyet.com.tr: "Beni ayakta tutan göçmenlerin savaşçı Ruhu" (accessed on January 21, 2014)
  2. ↑ galatasaray.org: Galatasaray Sportif AŞ'den açıklama , (accessed July 14, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Kaya, Semih
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergama , Turkey