Serdar Kurtuluş

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Serdar Kurtuluş

Full name	Serdar Kurtuluş
Date of birth	July 23, 1987 (1987-07-23) (age 20)
Place of birth	Bursa, Turkey
Height	1.84 m (6 ft +¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Central Midfielder, Right Back
Club information
Current club	Beşiktaş J.K.
Number	2
Youth clubs
2000-2005	Bursaspor
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2005-06 2006-present	Bursaspor Beşiktaş	15 (1) 31 (0)
National team
2005-2006 2005-2007 2007-present	Turkey U18-U19 Turkey U21 Turkey	20 (1) 5 (0) 1 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:00, 2 June 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Serdar Kurtuluş (born 23 July 1987 in Bursa) is a Turkish footballer playing for the club Beşiktaş J.K. and Turkey. His younger brother Serkan is also a footballer playing for Bursaspor.

1 Career
- 1.1 Early years
2 Honors
3 Notes and references

[edit] Career

[edit] Early years

He started football in Bursaspor youth team. He made his first team debut on August 28, 2005 against Mardinspor, when he was 18 years old. He scored his only goal against İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor on April 2, 2006.^[1] Bursaspor won League A that season and promoted to Turkcell Super League.

He was transferred from Besiktaş by Jean Tigana during his re-generation plan for team in 2006-2007 season at the age of 19. Beşiktaş paid Bursaspor $1,000,000 plus Sinan Kaloğlu and Eser Yağmur as exchange players for this transfer.^[2] He was playing as a right full-back in Bursaspor, but Jean Tigana tried to adapt him to play as a defensive midfielder as well. He would not be able to score a goal for his team, however, has been very successful in his first season in Beşiktaş as he builded his regular place in team's line-up.^[3]

He started his national team career on January 11, 2005 in a U18 friendly against Belgium. He attended 2005 Mediterranean Games, and played in the final game against Spain. He was selected for the U21 national team on November 15, 2006 for the friendly with Denmark. After his success in Beşiktaş, Fatih Terim called him for the national team squad for friendly matches. He played his first -and only- national match against Brazil on June 5, 2007.^[4]