Kadir Özcan

Ömer Özcan Kadir ( born June 26, 1952 in Akçaabat, † October 22, 2013 in Trabzon ) was a Turkish football player and coach. Through his many years of service for Trabzonspor he is strongly associated with this club. In fan - club page as he is seen as one of the greatest players in the club's history. He was a key member of the team that became the first Anatolian team win the Turkish Cup. Although his real name is Kadri Kadri Özcan Özcan and Ömer was, he was better known under the name Kadir Ozcan.

• 4.1 As a player

Playing career

Association

Özcan started playing football in the street and was then discovered for the youth team of his home club Sebat Gençlik SK. From 1969 he played here for the first men's team and took third in the league 1970/71 season with his team for the first time in the Turkish professional football part. For this club he played until the summer of 1972 and fell during this time the talent hunters of several associations in the top leagues.

He submitted to the newly formed and playing in the 2nd Lig club Trabzonspor an offer. As Özcan did not want to leave his home, he agreed Trabzonspor proposal. In his first season for Trabzonspor Kayserispor they finished behind the second place and missed with the same score because of the goal difference promotion to the first ligament in the following season they reached the championship for 1st Lig and hence the rise in the first ligament

The first season in the top Turkish league was successful for Özcan. He completed the one hand, 22 league games and on the other hand he made ​​the jump to the Turkish national team. His team occupies the ninth place in the table and fell as a team not to. In the second Süper Lig season, the 1975/76 season, they reached a complete surprise the championship. Up to this season's big three Istanbul clubs Besiktas Istanbul, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray decided the championship of the Süper Lig among themselves. Although missed with Eskişehirspor another Anatolian club three times just the championship, but the ban remained. Only with Trabzonspor championship he has been solved. In addition to the championship is also reached the final of the Turkish Football Cup and lost here just against Galatasaray. After this championship, you also dominated the next season the league and collected in addition to the championship and winning the Turkish Football Cup and the Turkish Super Cup all other trophies in the former Turkish football. Özcan completed during this time almost all the games of his team and was only due to an injury, or because he was disabled. Also on the European football stage fell on you. In the European Champions' Cup 1976/77 they met in the second round on the reigning English champions and eventual Champions League winners Liverpool. Liverpool was at that time considered to be one of the best teams in European football, and was for these encounters the big favorite. The first game in Trabzon Trabzonspor won surprising 1-0. The return game in which Özcan was not used, was lost 3-0. Only in the season 1977/78 we awarded with one point difference in the championship Fenerbahçe, but could not get the other two cups.

Trabzonspor came at this time in great financial difficulties and saw the solution some stars to sell it. In addition, they wanted to create a revision in the team. Özcan was placed with other stars such as Ali Kemal Denizci on the sales list. While Denizci was sold to the then major rivals Fenerbahce, Özcan went to local rivals Zonguldakspor.

In his new club he not made ​​the jump into the starting lineup, though he completed each season half of the possible league games, but otherwise sat on the bench. In his second season with this club, the 1979/80 season, they finished the season in third place in the table and thus achieved the best finish in club history. Despite this success, he left for the summer of 1980 this club and moved to Galatasaray. For this club, he played a season long, but only came in a single League game used. For the summer of 1981 he ended his football playing career.

National

Due to its impressive performance at Trabzonspor Özcan was nominated in 1975 for the Turkish U- 21 team and completed for these five games.

In the summer of the same year he was nominated by the then national coach Coşkun Özarı in the squad of the Turkish national team. In the EM1976 qualifier against the Irish national team, he made ​​his international debut. The next one and a half years, he was nominated regularly and completed it five internationals.

After he received no international match nomination for almost two years, he was nominated in March 1978 by the new national coach Metin Türel one last time in the national team. In this match against the Romanian national team, he sat on the bench.

Coaching career

Following his football career as a player Özcan moved into coaching skilled and trained mainly clubs in the Turkish Black Sea region. In October 1997 he took over his old club Trabzonspor the post of assistant coach and assisted Yılmaz Vural here.

For the 2013/14 season he took over the second team Trabzonspor, the second division in 1461 Trabzon.

Death

On October 22, 2013 Kadir Ozcan died after a heart attack. On October 23, he was buried in his hometown Akçaabat after noon prayers in the mosque in Ak Dürbinar cemetery. At his funeral was attended by several sizes of Turkish football as Fatih Terim, İbrahim Haciosmanoglu and Şenol Güneş.

Achievements

As a player

• Cup of TFF 1 Lig and promotion to the Süper Lig: in 1973/74
• Turkish champions: 1975 /76 1976/77
• Turkish Cup winner: 1977
• President Cup winners: 1975 /76 1976/77, 1977/78
• Prime Minister Cup winners: 1976

• Ranking third in the Süper Lig: 1979/80