Burak Yılmaz

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Burak Yılmaz (born 15 July 1985) is a Turkish footballer currently playing for the club Beşiktaş J.K.. He was born in Antalya as the son of Fikret Yılmaz who was a former Beşiktaş goalkeeper.

He began to play football in Antalyaspor and he contributed pretty much in the success of Antalyaspor in 2005-2006 season to have the second place in Lig A (Formery called 2.Lig A Kategorisi) and promote to Turkcell Süper Lig.

Same season he is nominated for the National Team by Fatih Terim National Team Head Coach and Jean Tigana coach of Beşiktaş insisted on buying him for the team as Tigana stated this Turkish wonderkid price tag in the future would be over $10m and that he is one of the rising stars in Turkey.


Beşiktaş JK - Current Squad

1 Runje | 2 Serdar | 3 Mehmet | 4 Mustafa | 5 Gökhan Z. | 7 Burak | 8 Baki | 9 Gökhan G. | 10 Delgado | 11 Nobre | 13 Bobo | 14 Can | 15 Kléberson | 17 Ricardinho | 19 İbrahim | 20 Aydın | 22 Ali T. | 29 Murat | 30 Ali G. | 41 Koray | 53 Fahri | 55 İbrahim A. | 58 İbrahim T. | 77 Emre | 78 İbrahim K. | 80 Kenan | Manager: Tigana


His football style is very similar to Cristiano Ronaldo.He always prefers his right foot. He is one of the hot prospects for the future in Turkey.

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