Tuğba Tekkal

Tuğba Tekkal
Personnel
birthday	March 5th 1985
place of birth	Hanover ,  Germany
size	170 cm
position	Midfielder
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2002-2007	TSV Havelse
2008	Hamburger SV II	(6)
2008-2009	Hamburger SV	21 0(3)
2009-2011	1. FC Cologne	29 0(3)
2012-2017	1. FC Cologne	111 (11)
2015	1. FC Cologne II	1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2016/17

Tuğba Tekkal (* 5. March 1985 in Hannover ) is a German soccer player jesidisch -kurdischer origin. Her parents came to Germany in the 1970s. She is one of eleven children and was born in Hanover.

Career

Before moving to the Bundesliga for Hamburger SV , she played for TSV Havelse from 2002 to December 2007 and for HSV II from January to June 2008. At HSV, she played 21 games in which she scored three goals. For the 2009/10 season Tekkal moved to the 2nd Bundesliga for 1. FC Köln . At the end of the 2010/11 season, she left the club and wanted to end her career because of her professional career as a sports and fitness clerk, but returned to the club during the 2011/12 winter break. After two runners-up in 2012/13 and 2013/14 , she was promoted to the Bundesliga with the 2014/15 team as the undefeated champions of the 2nd Bundesliga South.

In 2019 Tekkal was a juror at the German Football Culture Prize.

She is a speaker and has given numerous lectures on her role as a woman, athlete and German with a migration background.

Personal

Tuğba Tekkal played football with her brothers on the football field from an early age. At 16, she joined a football club.

Together with her sister, the journalist Düzen Tekkal , she founded Háwar.help , a non-profit association that campaigns for the rights of Yazidi women and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development .

Tuğba Tekkal is also the initiator of the Scoring Girls project, which offers girls with a refugee background and locals from socially disadvantaged districts a free game of football .

She works as a value ambassador for the GermanDream education initiative and as such goes to German schools to talk about the values ​​of the Basic Law and to encourage schoolchildren to believe in themselves and their dreams.

Awards and Achievements

• 2015: Champion 2. Bundesliga South 2014/15 and promotion to the Bundesliga with 1. FC Cologne
• 2017: Nomination for the Take Off Award in the “Women's Rights” category for Scoring Girls
• 2017: Special award for volunteer work in sport from the city of Cologne
• 2019: One of 50 women of the Inspiring 50 in the DACH region
• 2019: Receipt of the CIVIS media prize for integration and cultural diversity for scoring girls
• 2019: The Golden Ribbon for Scoring Girls

Web links

• Tuğba Tekkal in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Lawendel: Ex-soccer player Tekkal: I was good for a woman. In: Spiegel Online . June 24, 2011, accessed July 8, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Data center: Tugba Tekkal. In: dfb.de . Retrieved July 8, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Karsten Schulz: Ex-HSVerin Tuğba Tekkal stops. June 15, 2011, archived from the original on July 11, 2012 ; accessed on July 8, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Tekkal strengthens the FC women. 1. FC Köln, February 10, 2012, archived from the original on August 1, 2012 ; accessed on July 8, 2018 . 
5. ^ Tuğba Tekkal. In: fussball-kultur.de . Retrieved September 21, 2019.
6. ↑ Tekkal on Scoring Girls: “Merkel's visit was a huge experience”. In: dfb.de . April 23, 2017. Retrieved July 8, 2018 . 
7. ^ "Scoring Girls": Refugee Aid in Cologne. In: dfb.de . October 30, 2016, accessed July 8, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Düzen Tekkal: Are these women inventing the “German Dream”? Retrieved September 20, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Honorary Awards 2017 of the City of Cologne: Tugba Tekkal received the special award "Voluntary engagement in sport". Retrieved September 20, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Tugba Tekkal. Retrieved September 22, 2019 . 
11. ↑ CIVIS Media Foundation: Prize Winners 2019. Accessed on September 20, 2019 . 
12. ↑ About football in the community. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .