Muhammed Ildiz

Muhammed Ildiz (born 14 May 1991, Vienna) is an Austrian footballer of Turkish descent at the position of midfielder. In 2001 he played, interrupted only by a lending transaction to FC Wacker Innsbruck, at SK Rapid Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga, the top division in Austrian football. In January 2014 he signed a contract with the Turkish first division side Gaziantepspor.

Career

Youth

Ildiz began his active career as a football player end of August 1999 in the youth department of the SC Red Star Penzing in the 16th district of Vienna Ottakring. There he was active until July 2001 the club's junior, before he moved to the junior level of the SK Rapid Wien. The Hütteldorfern he held various Divisions and came from the season 2007/ 08 as 16 - and 17 -year-old to his first stakes in the U-19 youth team of the Association, which their gaming operations in the sponsored Toto U-19 Youth League has. After he came to a total of four inserts in the U-19 Youth League 2007/ 08, he was brought before the beginning of the 2008/09 season in the squad of the Rapid amateurs. During the same season he also came in three U-19 Championship games available for use, in which he scored two goals.

Club career

In the amateurs he gave his team and league debut on 19 August 2008 in a 2-2 draw against eventual champions First Vienna FC 1894, when he came on in the 89th minute for the two years older Arvedin Terzić. After he was initially used only briefly, he came with time to longer and longer missions Championship and was during the season often over the entire match times on the field. His first goal for the Rapid Amas Ildiz came on 20 March 2009 when he scored the only goal in a 1-0 home win over SC Neusiedl / Lake. In his first season with the amateurs, he was already on a balance sheet of 17 championship games in which he scored two goals.

In OFB Cup 2008 /09 completed three games for the second fight team from Rapid Vienna. After Ildiz the Bundesliga SCR Altach threw with his team in round 2 2-1 during the current competition, the team managed in the second round even greater sensation than the SV Mattersburg, active also in the highest Austrian league, 5-1 threw out the OFB Cup. After the quarter-finals of the Cup Bewerbes the team around Ildiz was beaten after 120 minutes of playing time in the penalty shoot-out against the amateurs of FK Austria Wien.

In the summer before the season 2009/10 Momo was, as he is called by his teammates and friends, especially due to its good performance in the amateurs, for the first time included in the senior squad from Rapid. The combative right-footed came on 17 December 2009 for his first competitive match for the pros use, as he was against Celtic in action during Europa League match in Group C. In a 3-3 home draw in the sold-out Ernst Happel Stadium replaced Ildiz minutes from the 78th to make it 3-0 Hamdi Salihi the scorers. After the SK Rapid Wien 19 minutes was already leading 3-0, were the team to certain victory just before the final whistle ago when Paul McGowan, who is active mainly in the reserve team of Celtic, in the 91st minute the deficit to 3: 3- Final posted.

Ildiz, which is often referred to because of its similarity with the Italian defensive midfielder Gennaro Gattuso by his colleagues jokingly referred to as " Gattuso for the poor" should Yasin Pehlivan, if it perceives a transfer abroad in the summer of 2010, to the position of midfielder in professional team of Rapid Wien follow. IN the autumn of 2010, the 1,77 m tall players were going in the Regional team to use and put it in the 2009/10 season on 22 championship inserts and two goals.

In the summer of 2010, he was awarded by the Green-Whites to the then Bundesliga team FC Wacker Innsbruck, but returned at the end of the season 2011/2012 back to Hütteldorf.

In Tranferfenster of winter 2012/13, he joined the 1st FC Nuremberg. He signed a contract until 30 June 2017. The first half of the season among the Franks was rather unhappy. While he was five times off the bench, but was only six times in the squad because he was repeatedly injured and had to undergo even a Blindarmoperation end of the season. Immediately before the start of the second half of the 2013/14 season Ildiz moved to Turkey and signed a three and a half year contract with Gaziantepspor.

Internationally

First international experience gained of Turkish origin Ildiz than he in the Austrian U-17 National Team was active. In 2006, he was supported convened for the international Youth Toto Cup in the summer of 2007. At the end of the tournament, the Austrians celebrated the title defense with a 3-1 victory over Scotland, a 1-1 draw against Switzerland and a 4-0 victory over the age colleague from Slovakia. In addition Ildiz was in the squad of the Austrian U-17 team in qualifying for the U -17 Championship 2008 in Turkey. Overall Ildiz came in six U-17 internationals for use, scoring two goals.

After he was active in three appearances for Austria U -18, he is currently in the squad of the Austrian U-19 selection. He is also part of Project12, which mainly takes care of the individual promotion of Austria's biggest talents in the field of U- 16 to U -21. In October 2009, the young midfielder was appointed to call on the Austrian U-19 squad, which is in qualifying for the U-19 European Championship 2010 in France in use.