Tolga Bozacı

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TurkeyTurkey  Tolga Bozacı Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 24, 1998
size 170 cm
Weight 70 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Career stations
2013-2015 Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kağıt SK
since 2015 Zeytinburnu Belediye SK

Tolga Bozacı (born January 24, 1998 ) is a Turkish ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with Zeytinburnu Belediye SK in the Turkish Super League since 2015 .

Career

Club

Tolga Bozacı began his career as a hockey player with Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kağıt SK , for whom he first played in the Turkish U18 league and in 2014/15 in the super league. In 2015 he joined league competitor Zeytinburnu Belediye SK , for whom he has played since then. With Zeytinburnu he became Turkish champion in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 . In 2019 he was also voted the best Turkish goalkeeper.

National team

Bozacı participated for Turkey in the junior division in the U18 World Championships in 2015 when he was not used, and in 2016 when he had the best catch rate and the lowest goals against goals of the tournament, as well as the U20 World Championships in 2016 when he was the best player of his Team was chosen, and in 2017 , when he contributed significantly to the rise of the team from the Bosporus with the second best goal against goal after the Icelandic Arnar Hjaltested and the third best catch quota after Hjaltested and the Israeli Raz Werner , he participated in Division III. At the U20 World Cup in 2018 he played in Division II.

In the men's field, he was in the squad of the Turkish national team for the first time at the 2016 World Cup and came on as a substitute for goalkeeper Erol Kahraman in the 8-2 victory in Division III against Bosnia-Herzegovina at the beginning of the second period . After he played in Division II at the 2017 World Cup and was voted the best player on his team, but could not hold the class with the team, he returned to Division III in 2018 and 2019 .

In December 2019, Bozacı took part with the Turkish team in the Olympic qualification for the 2022 Winter Games , but lost with his team in the second round of the pre-qualification after two clear defeats against Serbia (3: 8) and Croatia (2:10) and one final 4-1 win against Bulgaria .

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ squad list of the Turkish national team at the World Hockey Championship for Men 2016 , seen from the that Bozaci then played for Zeytinburnu, accessed on 6 April 2016th
personal data
SURNAME Bozacı, Tolga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bozaci, Tolga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1998