Tolgay Arslan

Tolgay Arslan, 2013

Tolgay Ali Arslan ( born August 16, 1990 in Paderborn ) is a German -Turkish football player standing at Hamburger SV in the German Bundesliga under contract.

Career

Clubs

Youth

Tolgay Arslan began with five and a half years at SC Green-White Paderborn with the football. There he spent the next seven years. For the season 2003/ 04 he became a C -teenager in the youth department of Borussia Dortmund, where he was active until the A- Youth ( U -19). In Dortmund 's youth, he scored 21 goals in 13 matches as a midfielder.

Hamburger SV

In summer 2009, undertook the Hamburger SV Arslan. He signed a professional contract with a term of four years to 30 June 2014. Initially Arslan came in, coached by Rodolfo Esteban Cardoso second team (U - 23) in the fourth division Regionalliga Nord used. Since there were many injuries in the first team, he made his debut under coach Bruno Labbadia 17 October 2009 (9th Round ) 0-0 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. Due to an injury Arslan had to be already in the 39th minute, replaced by Tunay Torun. By the end of the first round followed by four more missions. As a result, stopped him further injury. He also came in the second half again increased in the second team to use. So Arslan came in the second half only to further use in the Bundesliga. 25 April 2010 (32nd Round ) he came off the bench in the 1:5 defeat at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in the 56th minutes for Jonathan Pitroipa. In the 89th minute, he looked for a challenge against Hoffenheim Tobias Weis the red card.

Lending to Aachen

For the 2010/11 season Arslan changed for one year on loan to Alemannia Aachen, for whom he made ​​his debut on 26 August 2010 under coach Peter Hyballa in the match against 1.FC Union Berlin in the starting line and then quickly developed into regulars. So he scored six goals in 31 second-division operations. In addition, four bets came in the DFB Cup.

Return to Hamburg

For the 2011/12 season Arslan returned to Hamburger SV. In a test match in training camp against VfL Wolfsburg Arslan is seriously injured after a challenge with Ashkan Dejagah so he could be used in the second team again until 25 September 2011 (6th Round ). Another injury put him to the end of the first round out of action. In winter training camp Arslan was able to train over a longer period with the team again. On 18 February 2012, he completed his season debut in the Bundesliga when he came off the bench in the game against SV Werder Bremen in the 72nd minute for Jacopo Sala. For his performance Arslan received from his coach Thorsten Fink a positive review. The next Round (24 February 2012) at Borussia Mönchengladbach he scored in the 1-1 his first Bundesliga goal.

During the summer break in 2012 Arslan extended his contract with HSV until 2015.

In the 2012/13 Bundesliga season Arslan eventually rose on stem force alongside the Croatian national player Milan Badelj on the double six - position at HSV.

National

Since Arslan has both German and Turkish citizenship, he could choose between the German and the Turkish national team. After he had initially opted for the Turkish junior national team, he revised it in December 2010 and would like to play in the future for the German national team.

In November 2012 Tolgay Arslan was nominated for the first time the German U -21 national team, with whom he met on Turkey (1:1) against which Arslan had previously decided.