Ferhat Kiraz
Ferhat Kiraz ( born January 2, 1989 in Bozkır, Konya ) is a Turkish football player, who works currently for Bursaspor.
Playing career
Association
Kiraz began with the 2001 club football in the youth of Çankırıspor. Already few months later he and his family moved to Konya, so Kiraz a club had to look here. He started playing in the youth of Konya Demirspor. In January 2005 he was nominated for the Turkish U-15 national team and made his debut for them on 4 January 2005 during a friendly match against France. Show the talent scouts of Gençlerbirliği Ankara were aware of him and committed him a few days later. Although he had a professional contract where he played first for a week for the youth teams Gençlerbirligi. Here was the coach of the reserve team, Metin Diyadin, noticed him and brought him to the reserve team. From then on he played one and a half years for the reserve team and recommended for the first team. So he started alongside his work in the reserve also regularly train with the pros. His debut for the professionals he gave on 15 October 2006 was a league match against Beşiktaş Istanbul. By the end of the season he came up with two more appearances for the pros. He made the next season as a reserve player almost twice as many encounters. The season 2008/ 09 he spent as Players out on loan at second division Karşıyaka SK. Here he formed with Ridvan Simsek and Cihan Yılmaz together a feared attacking trio and became one of the rising stars of the season. For the season 2009/10 he returned to Gençlerbirliği, but came here to no use. To enable him match practice you gave him to the end of the season to the second team Gençlerbirligi, to the second division Hacettepe SK. In this club he made to the end of the season twelve encounters and scored two goals.
After the summer of 2012, his contract had expired with Gençlerbirliği, he accepted the offer from the second division Boluspor and signed here a three-year contract. In Boluspor he fought his way to immediately a regular place and was promoted with twelve season hits to be taken assured players of his team and again to one of the shooting stars of the TFF 1 Lig In the next season, he delivered a convincing performance and became a permanent player in the second guard of the Turkish national team.
For the summer of 2012 several Süper Lig clubs bekundeteden their interests in Kiraz. Bursaspor showed the greatest interest and agreed fairly quickly with Kiraz. About his transfer fee was negotiated with Boluspor long until it came to an agreement. So Kiraz signed on 19 June 2012, three-year contract. With his new club, he only came on as a substitute who came on in the second half to stakes. In November 2012, he played in the match against Beşiktaş Istanbul for the first time from the beginning and the total playing time. On subsequent Round, he was again in the starting lineup and scored in the home game against Mersin İdman Yurdu his first Erstligator. Already next on the match he scored again and made sure that he avanvierte the new shooting star of his team.
National
Kiraz went through from the Turkish U-16 national teams, almost all youth teams of his country.
He was nominated in February 2011 for the first time for the second selection of the Turkish national team. His international debut he was then on February 9, 2011 during a friendly match against Belarus.
As part of the Tournament of Toulon in 2012 Kiraz was appointed in May 2012 for the second selection of the Turkish national team. The Turkish A2 nominated here for players who were younger than 23 years to meet the age requirements for the tournament. The team made it to the finals and defeated the selection of Mexico there. Kiraz scored during the tournament among the driving forces of his team, and played in all matches.
Achievements
- Second selection of the Turkish national team: Runner-up in Toulon Tournament: 2012
- International Challenge Trophy: 2011-13