Volkan Arslan

Volkan Arslan ( born August 29, 1978 in Hannover) is a Turkish footballer who previously played 15 games for the national team of Turkey.

Clubs

Volkan played between 1996 and 1999 in the first team Hannover 96 During this time, he played 34 games for the Lower and scoring three goals. He then played one season for Rot-Weiss Essen in the then third-tier Regionalliga West / Southwest before moving to the Turkish first division club Adanaspor in the summer of 2000 and became temporarily coached by Joachim Loew. For the club from the south of Turkey Volkan made ​​in two years a total of 60 games and met eleven times. Thus he was the athletic leadership Kocaelispor eye and this convinced him in 2002 by a change in the Sea of ​​Marmara. After only half a year, however, Galatasaray became aware of Volkan. He signed with the now seventeen times Turkish champions a five year contract and got the shirt number 20 In Galatasaray Volkan had its most successful period as a professional footballer. He was finally with Galatasaray Turkish Cup winners in 2006 and the Istanbul Turkish champions traditional club he also managed the leap into the senior national team of Turkey in 2005. However, Volkan in the season 2005/ 06 was not a regular at Galatasaray player and so they parted at the end of the season.

After several short-term stations in Turkish football, he now plays at third division Bozüyükspor (as of season 2011 /12).

National

Volkan Arslan denied his first caps for the U-16 national team of Turkey and participated with this at the U-16 European Championship in Belgium in 1995. There, however, Turkey failed in the first round to Germany and Spain. After further operations in the U-17 and U-18 national team, it took more than six years before Volkan celebrated his debut in the senior team. On 30 April 2003, he came in a 0-4 defeat against the Czech Republic in Teplice first used. At the Confederations Cup 2003 Volkan completed all five tournament games for the Turkish national team, which finished 3rd at the end of the tournament. His most last match was the 0-1 defeat of Turkey against Macedonia on June 4, 2006 at Krefeld Grotenburg Stadium.

Achievements

  • Turkish champion: 2006 ( with Galatasaray )
  • Turkish Cup winner: 2005 ( Galatasaray )
  • Master of the Regionalliga Nord: 1997 and 1998 ( with Hannover 96)
  • Promotion to the Süper Lig: 2002 ( with Adanaspor )
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