İlkay Gündoğan
İlkay Gündoğan 2012
İlkay Gündoğan ( born October 24, 1990 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German football player. He is since 2011 with Borussia Dortmund under contract.
Life
Gündoğans parents come from Turkey, the father had moved to Germany in 1979. Gündoğan grew up with an older brother in his hometown of Gelsenkirchen. He took off at the partner school of the football club, the Bertolt Brecht School Nuremberg, graduated from high school in spring 2011. Gündoğans father later acted as his advisor.
Gündoğan is in a relationship with actress Sıla Şahin.
Career
Association
1 FC Nuremberg
The midfielder was in his youth for the clubs SV Gelsenkirchen- Hessler, FC Schalke 04, SSV Buer and VfL Bochum on the square. In Bochum, he graduated in the 2008 /09 season, two games for the second team in the Regionalliga West, with him in the BV Cloppenburg scored a goal. During the winter break, he was obliged by the second division 1 FC Nuremberg and signed a contract until 2011. Gündoğan was already second round, although initially only a transfer was planned for the new season. Already on the third back round Round he sat in Aachen on the bench, his first appearance he came, however, only on the last match against TSV 1860 Munich, when he came on in the 62nd minute for Javier Pinola, which should be protected for the upcoming play-offs.
In preparing for the 2009/10 season Gündoğan fell on a particularly positive. Therefore, he came on 1 August 2009 in the DFB Cup game with Dynamo Dresden at its debut in the starting lineup of the 1st FC Nuremberg and scored the goal to 0:3 draw. A week later, he stood against FC Schalke 04 again in the starting lineup and celebrated his debut in the Bundesliga. Overall, he was in the first round on seven missions, including three over the full period. On 6 Round him there against Bayern Munich managed one assist. On 23 Matchday he scored against FC Bayern Munich in the equalizer to a 1-1 draw, in a 2-1 win at Hertha BSC He gave the presentation to the winning goal by Angelos Charisteas. Also in the relegation matches Gündoğan remained one of the major players. After the 1-0 first leg victory, he seemed to fail, what was perceived as a serious handicap. In the return game, but he was able to play yet and had the first goal of the match decisive role in the league.
In the 2010/11 season, the young German Turk became a central face-off station in the midfield and a showcase player of Nuremberg. Together with Mehmet Ekici and Julian Schieber he made a strong offensive trio. After the winter break he lacked, however, a long time due to injury and was back then, also due to the stress of his final exams until the end of season no longer to form. Nonetheless, the interest from other clubs to Gündoğan was aroused and the FCN could not hold him.
Borussia Dortmund
For the Bundesliga season 2011/12 changed Gündoğan for German champions Borussia Dortmund and signed a contract for four years there. One million euros of the transfer fee was paid as a result of a transfer clause at VfL Bochum. In the first round he completed for Borussia Dortmund in the first nine games of the beginning, where he fell short of expectations. Finally Gündoğan was taken by the coach from the starting line and classified by experts as incorrect purchase. However, in the second half, his performance improved steadily, and he scored among other things, the crucial winning goal in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup against SpVgg Greuther Fürth. The ball went in the 120th minute of the post, bounced from there to the back of the substitute goalkeeper Jasmin Fürth Fejzić to roll into the goal from there. At the end of the 2011/12 season Gündoğan was with Borussia Dortmund for the first time in his career and won the German championship with the DFB Cup against Bayern Munich also the Double.
In the 2012/13 season he was with Dortmund in the Champions League, but he lost against Bayern Munich 1-2. In the summer of 2013 he was placed in the kicker ranking in the rarely awarded heading "world class".
In the 2013/14 season Gündoğan played only one match in the Bundesliga and a game in the DFB Cup. Gündoğan suffered for about seven months at an inflamed nerve in the back, which did not permit further use more on 10 August 2013. Because no end time of the injury yet clear Gündoğan will likely miss the Football World Cup 2014 in Brazil.
National
Gündoğan has won several German youth national team. On 4 August 2011, he was appointed to his nomination for the friendly match against Brazil in Stuttgart on August 10, 2011 in Stuttgart for the first time in the German national team. On October 8, 2011 Gündoğan was re-nominated for the final European Championship qualifier in Dusseldorf Germany against Belgium. In this game, he was on 11 October 2011 will be senior international debut for Germany. Since this is at the same time acted to his competitive debut, Gündoğan is eligible to play only for the DFB. He then took part in the European Championship in 2012, but remained without game use. He scored his first international goal on 26 March 2013 Nuremberg 's 4-1 victory in the World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan's selection with the results for the interim 3-0 in the 31st minute.
Play
The Kicker sports magazine wrote in July 2010 about the play Gündoğans: " What, then, distinguishes the young, unfinished footballer? A fine technique that allows him to get out of tricky situations playful. Thanks to a perfect ball handling, thanks to its quick, agile movements. There are also a good shot, especially with the right, and flexibility: Gündoğan can act on the Double Six, just behind the strikers. He calls the ball, never hiding. Not even on days where it is not going well. Less is him - because of the lack of speed - the winger ".
Achievements
Borussia Dortmund
- German Masters: 2012
- DFB Cup: 2012
- DFL - Supercup: 2013
- Champions League finalists: 2013
1 FC Nuremberg
- Promotion to the Bundesliga: 2009