Deniz Naki

Naki at FC St. Pauli (2009)

Deniz Naki ( born July 9, 1989 in Düren ) is a German footballer of Turkish-Kurdish descent.

Career

Club career

After the son of Turkish parents had begun at FC Düren 77 playing football, he received his football education in the context of the DFB talent development program. This Naki first played from 1996 to 2003 at FC Düren- Niederau and was formed in parallel from 2000 to 2003 at the DFB - base Echtz. As of 2003 the promotion in the power center of Bayer 04 Leverkusen took place. With the Bayer Youth team he won the 2008 DFB Junior Club Cup was officially introduced in the finals once. In 2008 he was appointed to the second team of Bayer 04, who played in the Regionalliga West, founded in the same year. For the second half of the 2008/09 season he was loaned to Rot Weiss Ahlen. On February 8, 2009, he came there to his first professional use, when he came off the bench in the game against FC Augsburg.

For the 2009/10 season Naki moved to FC St. Pauli, where he received a contract until 30 June 2012. During the Hamburg club he established himself right away in the squad, scoring on 17 August 2009 in the away game against Alemannia Aachen in his second league game his first league goal after he had previously met already in the 1st round of the DFB Cup with FC 08 Villingen. On the side of Marius Ebbers, Rouwen Hennings, Charles Takyi and Matthias Lehmann he scored during the season with seven goals this season the most successful shooters of the club and thus contributed to a rebirth in the Bundesliga at. Yet his actions were in the course of the season not without controversy: After provocative gestures towards fans of Hansa Rostock at the local away game in November 2009, which will have the player racially abused by his own admission, his club Naki condemned already on the following day to pay a fine in favor of a charity for victims of violence. The DFB detained him for three games. Two years earlier, another player had gone unpunished in a similar case.

Naki left the FC St. Pauli at the end of the season 2011/12 and signed a two -year contract with SC Paderborn during the summer break in 2012 07

For the 2013/14 season he moved to the Turkish first division club Gençlerbirliği Ankara.

National

Naki came for several junior national teams of the DFB used. In 2008 he participated with the German U19 national team at the U-19 European Championship in the Czech Republic. He mostly played in the midfield, as well as in the final, which was won 3-1 in the Naki the locked Savio Nsereko replaced on the position of the left midfielder. From 2008, he belonged to the squad of the German U20 national team. In September 2009, Deniz Naki played two games for the U -21, for after only four minutes, he scored a goal in his first game on September 4, 2009.