Hakan Arıkan

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Hakan Arıkan

Full name	Hakan Arıkan
Date of birth	August 17, 1982 (1982-08-17) (age 25)
Place of birth	Karamürsel, Turkey
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 3+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Beşiktaş J.K.
Number	84
Youth clubs
1999–2001 2001–2002	Petkimspor Kocaelispor
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002–2006 2006–2007 2007–	Kocaelispor Ankaraspor Beşiktaş	76 (0) 43 (0) 24 (0)
National team²
2007–present	Turkey	6 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 June 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 4 June 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Hakan Arıkan (born in 17 August 1982, Karamürsel, Kocaeli) is a Turkish footballer currently playing for Beşiktaş. His role is goalkeeper.

1 Career
- 1.1 Raising to fame
- 1.2 Beşiktaş era
2 National team
3 Controversy
4 Stats
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Career

[edit] Raising to fame

Arıkan had begun his career at Petkimspor, an amateur team based in western Turkish city of İzmir. Then he joined Kocaelispor in 2001. During his Kocaeli era he played both for senior and youth teams for almost three seasons until he began to play regularly as the number one keeper.

Arıkan joined Ankaraspor in 2006. He was called up to the The Turkish National Team squad, for the very first time, during a friendly game, after he had shown an impressive performance for Ankaraspor, by saving two penalties in a 1–1 draw against Galatasaray on the very first match day in 2006/07 Season.^[1] Hakan finished that season off with conceding 27 goals in 26 matches.

[edit] Beşiktaş era

He joined Beşiktaş in exchange with keeper Ramazan Kurşunlu plus 0.7 million Euros.^[2] He has played alternately with Rüştü Reçber in 2007/08 Season.

[edit] National team

Arıkan was initially called up for the national team before the match against Georgia in February 2007. He made his debut on 05 June 2007 against Brazil, in a dedicated match for Tugay Kerimoğlu's very last cap for national team.^[3] He could not find a place in Euro 2008 selection.

[edit] Controversy

Hakan is regarded as a very promising keeper who is capable enough to keep the goal of National Team; however, he was criticised his lack of handling ability which also costed him to allow 8 goals in his net against English side Liverpool during the Champions League match in 2007. His recent mistakes led Turkish media to have a pressure on coach Ertuğrul Sağlam to cover him with Rüştü in European Cup mathes such as Porto in Group A and also im some league matches in 2007/08 season.

[edit] Stats

Note: Stats were obtained from TFF official website.^[4]

Last update: 7 June 2008

Season	Team	Leag. Apps.	Goals	Cup Apps.	Goals
01/02	Kocaelispor	7	0	1	0
02/03	Kocaelispor	6	0	2	0
03/04	Kocaelispor	22	0	2	0
04/05	Kocaelispor	25	0	2	0
05/06	Kocaelispor	16	0	2	0
05/06	Ankaraspor	12	0	0	0
06/07	Ankaraspor	31	0	4	0
07/08	Beşiktaş	24	0	5	0
08/09	Beşiktaş