İlyas Tüfekçi

Ilyas Tüfekçi ( born February 3, 1960 in Istanbul) is a Turkish football coach and former football player.

Playing career

Association

Tüfekçi moved with eleven years with his parents to Berlin. About Hertha BSC he came to VfB Stuttgart, in which the striker moved in the 1980/81 season in the spotlight. He announced on September 27, 1980 his debut in the Bundesliga. At the match in Dortmund, he came in to replace the SCI with the score at 3-1 quarter hour before closing. In 82 minutes, he scored his first Bundesliga goal to 2:3, the VfB still allowed by another goal by Karl Allgöwer a draw. As a result, he belonged to the permanent staff of coach Jürgen Sundermann and contributed a total of 13 goals in 24 missions to the fact that the VfB finished the season in third place. In the following season Tüfekçi made ​​three more games for Stuttgart before he moved to FC Schalke 04 on 11 September 1981.

In the Bundesliga he was relegated from the 9th Round, where he became the first Turk in Royal Blue gave his debut against Alemannia Aachen, in any season game on the court. With seven goals in those 30 games, he contributed to the direct re-emergence of Schalke. In the season 1982/83 he started with four goals in three games; but the rest of the season, he was able to prevail under coach Siggi neither hero nor after his release in the second half under his former Stuttgart coach Sundermann. They both looked at him because of his size of 1.64 meters more in the midfield or on outside as the storm center. At the end, there were eight goals from 32 games in its balance sheet; FC Schalke 04 rose after the relegation again.

Tüfekçi went, initially on loan, in Turkey to Fenerbahce, the Turkish in 1985 he was champion. Then he played from 1986 to December 1990 at the local rivals Galatasaray, with whom he celebrated twice in a row (1987 and 1988), the Turkish Cup and 1989 the semi-finals of the European Cup of Champions. He finally end his active career at Zeytinburnuspor.

National

As early as 1978 Tüfekçi was six times elected to the Turkish U-18 national team. In 1979, he once played for the U- 21st Making its debut in the senior team on 15 April 1981 coach Fethi Demircan the team lost in the World Cup qualifier 0-3 against Czechoslovakia. His first goal for Turkey, he scored in qualifying for the European Championship in 1984 in a 3-1 win over Austria. Tüfekçi played a total of 19 times for the national team, scoring six goals. He had his last appearance on 14 October 1987 in the European Championship qualifier in the 0:8 defeat to England at Wembley.

Coaching career

After his playing career he became a coach and worked among others Göztepe Izmir, Karabükspor and Bandirmaspor.

Others

Together with Erdal Keser Borussia Dortmund Tüfekçi was one of the first Turkish player from immigrant families who made ​​the breakthrough in the German football clubs. Parliament wrote in 2004: "The two kickers were the idol of a generation of Turkish football. Young people began to care for the German football - so far mainly players in the Bosphorus League were formative for them. In the fan curves of area clubs waving Turkish flags. Schalke and Dortmund were on terms, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray next. For the most part the new fans were integrated. Especially in the Schalke, Gelsenkirchen scene ' there was a Turkish fast block. "