Tuncay Şanlı

Tuncay Şanlı [ tundʒaj ʃanlɯ ] ( born January 16, 1982 in Adapazarı, Sakarya ), called Tuncay, is a Turkish football player.

Association

Tuncay signed his first professional contract with second-division club Sakaryaspor and scored in the 2000/01 season 16 goals in 31 league games. The following season he increased his goal tally to 18 goals. In 2002 he received a two-year contract with Fenerbahce and met ten times for the team from the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium. 2004 Tuncay contributed with 19 goals in 31 games essential to winning the championship in. In addition to the title he was rewarded at the end of the season with an improved three-year contract.

In his first Champions League season (2004/ 05), scoring five goals. Against Manchester United he scored a hat-trick.

In the summer of 2007, he spent four years with the English first division club FC Middlesbrough. On 1 December 2007, compared to Reading FC, he scored his first Premier League goal. During the season, he scored eight goals in the Premier League. He was elected in 2008 /09 the best player in Middlesbrough. After the descent " Boros " wanted Tuncay but necessarily leave the club and joined Stoke City for a fee of around 5.7 million.

From 2009 to 2011 Tuncay played at Stoke City in the Premier League. He made his debut in the match against Sunderland in which he appeared as a substitute in the 84th minute. At the end of Stoke City won 1-0 against Sunderland.

From January 2011 he played for VfL Wolfsburg. He was transferred for a transfer fee of 4.5 million euros to the Niedersachsen and received the shirt number 6 However, he came into the remaining season only three times initially used and came off the bench in the season finale again.

During the summer break in 2011 Tuncay on loan for a year at the Bolton Wanderers, which also had an option to buy. After he returned to Wolfsburg, his contract was terminated on 25 July 2012 in mutual agreement.

After the termination of the contract with Wolfsburg was much speculation about a change in the Süper Lig. This Şanlı both associated with such well-known clubs like Fenerbahce and Besiktas Istanbul in conjunction and with rather less known teams like Eskişehirspor. In early September 2012, the change to the Turkish club Bursaspor tradition was finally announced. He signed a three-year contract here. Beginning in February 2014 was dissolved by mutual agreement Şanlı 's contract.

National

After a few U-21 international appearances Tuncay was in November 2002 with 20 years in a friendly against Italy his debut in the senior team. The FIFA Confederations Cup 2003, he met three times, when Turkey finished third. He got the second best player of the tournament and awarded the Silver Ball as the second best scorer of the tournament Silver Shoe. However, the qualification for the UEFA EURO 2004 missed his country; in the play-off defeat to Latvia Tuncay came just eleven minutes to use. Tuncay played the day before his senior international debut yet for the Turkish U-21 national team and scored twice.

In the third round match against Czech Republic Euro 2008 Goalkeeper Volkan Demirel, the Turkish got in the final minutes after a violent conduct to Jan Koller red card. The coach Fatih Terim was forced on providing Tuncay to score, as he had already taken all substitutions. The game could Turkey win 3-2. On September 5, 2009, he was in the World Cup qualifier against Estonia, scored his 21st and 22nd goal for the Turkish national team. Before that time, Lefter Küçükandonyadis from the second- best Turkish scorers. Before him only Hakan Şükür is with 51 hits.

Best Merits

• 3rd place in the Confederations Cup in 2003
• 3rd place at the 2008 European Championships
• Turkish league title: 2004, 2005, 2007
• Second goalscorer of the Turkish national team ( 22 goals )