Önder Turacı

Önder Turacı in 2007

Önder Özden Turacı (born 14 July 1981 in Liège ) is a football player of Turkish and Belgian nationality.

Career

Association

At the age of six, he began in the youth division of Standard Liege. There he went through several youth teams and then played on loan at some unterklassige clubs, including CS Visé. From 2000 to 2002 he was at R.A.A. La Louviere borrowed and could draw attention to themselves there. After 49 appearances for the club he returned for the season 2002/ 03 with standard back. He could win a regular place at right back and ran into the league 27 times from the beginning on.

2004 Önder joined after a successful season with Standard Liege for 1.7 million euros to Fenerbahce and signed the new Turkish champions a four-year contract.

After Önder had left in the summer of 2010 he played in sequence for the clubs Kayserispor, Göztepe Izmir and Sariyer SK. In spring 2010, he joined the second division Şanlıurfaspor.

National

Önder, who was born in Belgium, the son of Turkish parents, completed 14 missions in the Belgian U- 21st In the summer of 2004 he was appointed for some friendly matches in the 28 -strong Turkish squad. Want to accumulate After continuing arguments with FIFA to his desire but for the senior national team of Turkey to Önder decided in January 2007 to play for Belgium to take part in international tournaments can. He possesses both the Belgian and Turkish citizenship. His appearances in the Belgian U -21 blocked his number of years the way to the Turkish national team, because after that time the FIFA Statutes, a young player had to take binding decisions before age of 21 for country selection. Following repeal of this regulation in mid-2009 he came in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup to three inserts.