Nadir Çiftçi

Nadir Çiftçi ( born February 12, 1992, Elazig, Turkey) is a Dutch footballer of Turkish descent. He stands at Dundee United in Scotland under contract and playing on the position of the striker.

Career

Career start in the home

His active career as a football player began the ethnic Turkish Çiftçi in the Netherlands at the former VV Haaglandia, even before it was re-founded in 2005. At the club he played for several years in the club's junior and moved in 2003 to the youth program of ADO Den Haag. There he was active for several years, went through a variety of youth leagues and was quickly discovered as an offensive talent. This was also the reason for Çiftçis other meetings in the various Dutch junior national teams. After his talent was already sponsored the club from The Hague, the then 15 -year-old got in 2008 an offer from England. The Portsmouth took the striker in the club's youth department, for which he henceforth was used in the academy. After several years in junior Çiftçi was first brought for the 2010/11 season in the professional squad of just relegated Premier League clubs and trained with the first team with.

Professional debut for FC Portsmouth

After the young offensive talent his first professional contract in his still short career, signed in June 2010, after already participated in the North American tour of the professional team, it was used in various games and struck by his achievements, he eventually gave up after returning to England on 7 August 2010 his competitive debut for the club Portsmouth. Here, the 18 -year-old came off the bench in the 0-2 defeat against Coventry City in 73 minutes for Richard Hughes. His first competitive goal should not be long in coming, because already in his second competitive game use, a 2-1 victory over Stevenage FC in the League Cup of the season 2010/11, he scored in the eighth minutes the 1-0 lead with his team and played in the further course of the encounter over the full duration. After this first competitive goal, it took only five more days until Çiftçi came on his first official league goal. This he achieved on 14 August 2010 in a 1-1 home draw against Reading FC, when he again came in the eighth minute for scoring and brought his team the lead. Here again, the 18 -year-old was back on the full duration in use.

After leaving in the third round of the League Cup, Çiftçi came in another game this petition for use, the young striker is ranked currently ( as of 24 October 2010) after nine completed league inserts and a hit with the team in mid-table after had occurred mainly in longer time early in the season as one of the laggards in the league.

For the season 2011/12 he moved to the Turkish Süper Lig for mittelanatonischen representatives Kayserispor. After just one season, he broke his contract after mutual agreement and left the club. For the 2012/13 season he signed a three -year contract with NAC Breda, but remained there only one season in order afterwards to go to the Scottish first division club Dundee United.

Junior National Team

First international experience could Çiftçi collect in 2007, when he was first appointed to the U-15 national team of his native country. The following year was the first convocation in the U-16 national team squad in the Netherlands followed by the launch in the Netherlands U- 17 team, for which he also already graduated some matches.

After his move to Turkey for first division club Kayserispor is Çiftçi decided henceforth aground for the Turkish national teams. He graduated in 2011 sieen caps for the Turkish U-17 national team.