Engin Baytar
Baytar in the jersey of Gala ( 2013)
Engin Baytar ( born July 11, 1983 in Cologne ) is a German -Turkish football player football players.
Club career
Engin Baytar played in his youth for Arminia Bielefeld, VfB Fichte Bielefeld and FC Gütersloh. His professional career began at Arminia Bielefeld II After four years in Bielefeld Engin moved to Turkey to the third division Maltepespor. There first division were aware of him. Gençlerbirliği Ankara signed him in the winter break of the season 2005/06. After that, he was one of the key players of the capital city. In the 2008 /09 season Engin Baytar was awarded to Eskişehirspor.
He then moved to Trabzonspor. In Baytar Trabzonspor won his biggest title to date. In the 2009/10 season he was with Trabzonspor Turkish Cup winners. In the final against Fenerbahce his team won 3-1, he scored the decisive 2-1 and was elected after the game by the Turkish journalists man of the match. In his second season at Trabzonspor came between him and his coach Senol Güneş to differences of opinion, which is why Baytar was suspended during the season, but later in the training was allowed to participate again.
During preparations for the 2011/12 season it came again to the suspension of Engin Baytar. Senol Güneş put him on the transfer list and then Galatasaray undertook the controversial midfielder at the special request of the new coach Fatih Terim. His transfer fee was 1.1 million euros and he signed for two years. At Galatasaray, he established himself surprisingly at first -team regular and was one of the performers won the championship of the 2011/12 season called. In the next season Baytar caused a scandal when he Cuneyt Cakir the referee physically attacked in vorsaisonal discharged Supercup game in 2013 and was sent off for a red card. After this incident Baytar been blocked by the disciplinary committee of the Turkish Football Association for eleven games. Despite these developments, Terim held to Baytar and spoke out for a contract extension with Baytar. After the end of his match suspension was no longer able Baytar to build on its previous performance. Furthermore, he continued to show very aggressive behavior on the field. After Terim was replaced by the Italian coach Mancini Roberte in the fall of 2013, Baytar was completely ignored in the team's plans. He was loaned out to league rivals Çaykur Rizespor in the spring of 2014.
National
His first game for the Turkish national football team made Baytar on 17 November 2010 against the Netherlands.
Achievements
Galatasaray
- Turkish champion: 2012, 2013
- Turkish football Super Cup Winner: 2012, 2013
Trabzonspor
- Turkish Soccer Cup winners: 2010
- Turkish football Supercup winner: 2010