Serdar Tasci
Serdar Taşçı 2007
Serdar Taşçı [ taʃ.tʃɯ ] ( born April 24, 1987 in Esslingen am Neckar) is a German footballer who also has Turkish nationality. He is since 2013 in the Russian league at Spartak Moscow Premjer under contract.
Career
Clubs
The defender grew up in Esslingen am Neckar on as one of three children of the button factory worker and later machines surgeon Nihat and the housewife Sümbül Taşçı. His grandparents had immigrated in the late 1960s as guest workers from the northeastern Turkish city of Artvin to Germany.
He began with six years of playing football at SC Altbach and in 1997 in the e- Youth of the Stuttgarter Kickers, where he played for two years. In July 1999, he had already moved to the youth of VfB Stuttgart. For the 2005/06 season he was promoted to the second team of VfB Stuttgart, before he was appointed to the 2006/07 season in the cadre of professionals.
Taşçı can play both inside as well as a right defender. His first league game he played on August 20, 2006 against Arminia Bielefeld on Matchday 2 of the 2006/07 season, when he came in to replace the Dane Jon Dahl Tomasson after his injury in the 68th minute. His first Bundesliga goal he scored on the next match day match against Borussia Dortmund (1:3) in 30 minutes. In his first Bundesliga season succeeded Taşçı, with VfB win the German championship, to which he contributed with 26 missions and two gates. In addition, he stood with VfB in the DFB Cup final and thus had even the chance to crown the beginning of his professional career with the Double; However, the final VfB lost 2:3 against 1.FC Nuremberg.
29 August 2009 Taşçı extended his contract at VfB until the end of June 2014. He was appointed by coach Bruno Labbadia the new team captain of VfB on 12 January 2012. He thus replaced from Matthieu Delpierre.
On August 30, 2013 moved to the Russian first division club Spartak Moscow Taşçı.
National
Taşçı who would have been eligible to play due to his Turkish descent for both the German and the Turkish national football team, decided in October 2006 despite courtship of the Turkish Football Association for a career in the German national team.
On 16 August 2007 Taşçı was first appointed to the levy of the German national team and was in the squad for the friendly against England on 22 August 2007, in which he was not used. About a year later, on 20 August 2008, Taşçı then ran against Belgium for the first time for the German national team and played the full 90 minutes.
In 2010 he was appointed by national coach Joachim Loew in the squad for the World Cup 2010. He came there, but only for two minutes in the game for 3rd place ( 3-2 over Uruguay ) are used. On 11 August 2010, he took over after the substitution of Thomas Hitzlsperger in the 64th minute for the first time as captain of the German national team.
Since 2010 Serdar Taşçı has worked together with international Cacau, Célia Šašić national player and the referee Sinem Turac as DFB Integration ambassador.
Achievements
- 2003: German Vice-Champion with the U-17
- 2004: German Champion with the U17
- 2005: German Champion with the U19 team of VfB Stuttgart
- 2007: German champions VfB Stuttgart
- 2007 and 2013: DFB Cup finalists with VfB Stuttgart
- 2010: Third in the World Cup
Awards
- Silver Bay Leaf 2010