Murat Kalkan

Murat Kalkan ( born May 20, 1986 in Bayburt ) is a German -Turkish footballer who plays for Mersin İdman Yurdu.

Career

Youth

Murat Kalkan arrived in the Turkish province of Bayburt city to the world and moved in childhood with his family to Germany. Here he began to club football in youth from TSG Backnang 1919. Subsequently he played for the youth from VfB Stuttgart. Here he was discovered for the Turkish youth national teams and first played in 2003 for the Turkish U- 18th

Gençlerbirliği

Through his work with the Turkish U-18 and Turkish First Division clubs were aware of him. Thus it succeeded Gençlerbirliği in Ankara, Kalkan to tie 2004 as a professional player in itself. In Gençlerbirliği he played in his first season exclusively for the reserve team.

Mardinspor (loan )

To enable him match practice in a professional league, you lent him for the season 2005/ 06 to the second division Mardinspor. Here Kalkan played regularly collected and gaming experience.

Gençlerbirliği Oftaş (loan )

The next three seasons, he played again on loan. This time, the then second division Gençlerbirliği Oftaş. The 2006/07 season he was first Lig with his team master of TFF and rose to the Süper Lig.

Gençlerbirliği

For the 2009/10 season he returned to Gençlerbirliği and completed 12 league games. In the 2010/11 season under the new coach Thomas Doll, he managed to break through. He was able to establish itself as a regular player.

Orduspor

In the summer of 2011/12 he moved within the League newly promoted Orduspor. Here he completed his first season in eleven league games.

Adana Demirspor

After just one season he left Orduspor and moved to the new second division Adana Demirspor.

Torku Konyaspor and Mersin İdman Yurdu

From Demirspor he left already for winter break 2012/13 and signed up at Premier League rivals Torku Konyaspor. Although Kalkan had completed only three competitive games with his new employer, he was first Lig with the team playoff winner of the TFF and rose to the Süper Lig. After this success, he solved by mutual consent with the club's management of his contract and moved to second division Mersin İdman Yurdu.

National

Murat Kalkan played twelve times for the Turkish U -18 and three times for the U -21 youth national team.

Achievements

  • Playoff winners of TFF 1 Lig: 2012/13
  • Promotion to the Süper Lig: 2012/13
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