Faruk YiÄŸit
Faruk Yiğit ( born April 15, 1966 in Trabzon ) is a former Turkish football player and coach. Due to his years of work for Kocaelispor he is associated with this club. With the Turkish national team, he participated in the 1996 European Championships, but came during this tournament at any stake. Besides his footballing achievements, he fell to his playing days at particularly through his informal appearance and its unusual for that time appearance. He always wore shoulder-length hair and to always have a full beard. A stir he made towards the end of his playing career, as he smoked during his time at Orhangazi Gençlerbirliği on the bench before coming off the bench.
- 3.1 As a player
Playing career
Association
Yiğit came in 1966 in the Black Sea city of Trabzon on the world and moved in childhood with his family in the western Turkish province of Bursa. Here his family settled near the district town Orhangazi. In this area, he learned to play football in the youth departments of various amateur clubs.
In the late 1980s he moved to the then third division Yalovaspor. With this club he celebrated the end of the season 1989 /90 Championship 3rd Lig and thus the direct promotion to 2nd ligament Yiğit was instrumental with his goals of this success and became one of the shooting stars of the league.
For the season 1990/91 he moved to the then first division Boluspor. Here he established himself straight into the starting lineup and scored with his 14 goals in 27 league games of the most successful goalscorers of the season and was also international. In his second season at Boluspor he stayed behind his performance the previous season. His club failed end of the season to avoid relegation.
After the descent Boluspors Yiğit remained in the top Turkish league, the first Lig, and joined the newly promoted Kocaelispor. Kocaelispor became the surprise team of the season and was Herbstmeister the game from 1992 /93. At season's end, one playful the standings, but reached the fourth place in the table the best Erstligaplatzierung the club's history. Yiğit played during this season is not in the starting eleven, but came on as a substitute to regular operations. His breakthrough in Kocaelispor he witnessed in the season 1994/95, in which he was the top scorer of his team with 12 league goals. In the season 1995/96 he formed with Saffet Sancaklı, Roman Dabrowski and John Moshoeu one of the most prolific offensive teams the league and reached the 5th place in the table, the second best Erstligaplatzierung the club's history. Yiğit was nominated again in the Turkish national team due to his convincing performance from the national coach Fatih Terim and participated with this at the European Football Championship 1996. The season 1996/97 they finished 7th in the league table position, but reached the Turkish Football Cup for the first time in club history the final. In that time the played with back and legs Cup final ended the first game away 1-1 draw against Trabzonspor. The return leg on home turf they won 1-0 and reached the first Cup win in club history. Yiğit had contributed significantly to his performances Cup finals and winning.
After spending the first half of the 1997/98 season at Kocaelispor, he moved to the winter break to Istanbul's traditional club Fenerbahce. Here he made it straight into the starting eleven and completed all the matches of the season. His team led to the long table and forgave end of the season in the championship arch rivals Galatasaray. For the new season, the German coach Joachim Loew was presented as a new Fenerbahçe coach. Under this coach Yiğit lost his starting place, but came on as a substitute on 16 league operations. Once awarded under Löw Fenerbahçe Galatasaray in the championship, this was the season 1999/ 00 by the legendary player Fenerbahçe ', Ridvan Dilmen replaced. Under Dilmen Yiğit only played the first two games of the season. For the second half of this season he was loaned until the end of the season second division Diyarbakirspor. For the summer of 2000 returned to Fenerbahçe, he remained without bet one more season in the squad and then left the club.
In 2001 he moved to Yalovaspor and after a few days for amateur club hometown to Orhangazi Gençlerbirliği. For this club, he played four seasons long and ended the summer of 2005, his active playing career.
In the spring of 2013 he began at the amateur club Yalova Demirspor wier to play soccer and so celebrated 47 years of his comeback.
National
Through its shown benefits Boluspor Yiğit was nominated by the then national coach Sepp Piontek in the context of a test match against Yugoslavia in the squad, the Turkish national team. In this game of 27 February 1991, he also gave his international debut. In the following year Yiğit was used three more times by Piontek in international matches.
After Yiğit was not nominated four years for the national team, he recommended himself by his achievements in Kocaelispor for the national team. Thus, the new national coach Fatih Terim him again nominated for national team. In the match against the Ukrainian National Team he also achieved his first and only international goal.
With the Turkish national team, he participated in the 1996 European Championships, but came during this tournament at any stake. After this tournament Terim left the team and was replaced by Mustafa Denizli. Denizli Yiğit nominated for a friendly game one last time for the national team. During that game, he completed his eighth and final international.
Coaching career
After his career end supervised in the function of the head coach several clubs of his home province of Bursa and the surrounding area.
Achievements
As a player
- With Yalovaspor Cup of TFF Lig 2 (1): 1989/90
- Promotion to the TFF 1 Lig (1): 1989/90
- With Kocaelispor Table fourth in the Süper Lig (1): 1992/93
- Table fifth in the Süper Lig (1): 1995/96
- Turkish Cup Winner (1): 1996/97
- With Fenerbahce Turkish runners-up (1): 1997/98
- Başbakanlık Kupası ( 1): 1998
- Atatürk Kupası ( 1): 1998
- Turkish national team: Participate in the European Championship: 1996