| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Hakan Yakin | ||
| Date of birth | 22 February 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Basel, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Second Striker Attacking Midfielder |
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| Club information | |||
| Current club | Lucerne | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1984–1994 | Concordia Basel | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1995–1997 | Basel | 68 | (13) |
| 1997-1998 | Grasshoppers | 11 | (1) |
| 1998-1999 | → St. Gallen (loan) | 35 | (8) |
| 1999–2001 | Grasshoppers | 54 | (22) |
| 2001–2003 | Basel | 67 | (28) |
| 2003 | Paris Saint-Germain | 0 | (0) |
| 2004 | Basel | 6 | (3) |
| 2004-2005 | Stuttgart | 9 | (0) |
| 2004 -2005 | → Galatasaray (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2005–2008 | Young Boys | 83 | (40) |
| 2008–2009 | Al-Gharafa | 15 | (5) |
| 2009– | Luzern | 78 | (26) |
| National team‡ | |||
| Switzerland U-19 | 6 | (4) | |
| Switzerland U-20 | 3 | (5) | |
| Switzerland U-21 | 24 | (12) | |
| 2000–2011 | Switzerland | 87 | (20) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 December 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Hakan Yakin (Turkish: Hakan Yakın; born 22 February 1977 in Basel) is a Swiss footballer. He plays for Swiss Super League club FC Luzern. He was member of the Swiss national team for eleven years.
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Hakan was born in Basel, Switzerland to Turkish parents. He grew up and went to school in suburban Münchenstein, Basel-Landschaft, just outside of Basel, and close to the borders of France and Germany. He is the elder brother of international football player Murat Yakin (former member of the Swiss national football team), who is currently manager of the Swiss Swiss Super League club FC Luzern. His elder half-brother Ertan Irizik is also a former football professional. His surname is based on the Turkish word Yakın [1][2][3] (meaning close, adjacent[4]), however as he is a Swiss resident and citizen, the name which he uses is Yakin.
As a child Yakin played in the youth teams of his local side FC Concordia Basel. He signed his first professional contract with hometown club FC Basel in January 1995. He played his League debut for Basel on 12 April 1995 in the 1994–95 season in the match against Lausanne Sports. He was brought on as substitute the 60th Minute as replacement for Alexandre Rey and with his first touch of the ball, just 18 seconds later, he scored the 3:0 with a header (end result 5:0).[5]
After two and a half years in Basel he transfered to Grasshopper-Club Zürich, with manager Christian Gross, but could not set himself through, making most of his appearances as substitute. Therefore he was loaned to FC St. Gallen for the second half of the 1997-98 season. Yakin moved immediately into the starting eleven and therefore the loan was prolonged, before Yakin returned to the Grasshoppers.[5]
During January 2001 he transfered back to Basel. At the end of the 2001–02 season Yakin won the national Double with Basel and a year later won the Swiss Cup again. He recalls the 2002–03 Champions League Group B match on 12 November 2002 against Liverpool in St. Jakob-Park as the "match of his life".[6] The game was drawn 3:3 and Yakin gave all three assists as Basel cruised to a 3:0 half time lead as they qualified, one point above Liverpool, for the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League second group stage.[7]
His career was then overshadowed by some trouble regarding his club transfers, as his engagements outside Switzerland (Paris Saint-Germain,[8][9] VfB Stuttgart,[10] and Galatasaray[11]) were not accompanied by luck. In 2005–06, Yakin returned to Switzerland, joining BSC Young Boys.[12] In July 2008, Yakin signed a contracted with Qatar champions Al-Gharafa,[13] for a salary of around €2.5 millions per year.
In March 2009, it was reported that Yakin has been training with the Grasshopper-Club Zürich U-21 side, coached by his brother Murat, in a bid to get fit.[14] Yakin then signed a contract on 25 June 2009 in his homeland Switzerland with FC Luzern; the contract runs through to 30 June 2011.[15] In Summer 2011 his brother Murat became his manager at FC Luzern.[16]
In January 2012 Hakan will move to Ticino to play for AC Bellinzona.
Yakin has been capped 87 times for Switzerland, the first coming in 2000. He was offered Turkish nationality before being called up to the Swiss squad, but turned it down for personal reasons. He has played in UEFA Euro 2004, UEFA Euro 2008, and both the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup with his country.
On 11 June 2008, Yakin scored the opening goal in the 32nd minute of Switzerland's second Euro 2008 Group A match against Turkey, giving them a 1–0 lead. However, he missed another chance shortly afterward as Turkey scored two second-half goals, resulting in Switzerland becoming the first team to be mathematically eliminated from their own tournament within five days of its beginning.[17] However, in Switzerland's final group match against Portugal on 15 June, Yakin added two second-half goals, the second a penalty kick, to secure their first ever win at the UEFA European Championship, 2–0.[18] Yakin finished the tournament as joint-second highest goalscorer with Lukas Podolski, Roman Pavlyuchenko, and Semih Şentürk with three goals each, behind David Villa's four goals.
Under new national team coach, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Yakin participated in seven of Switzerland's ten qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, starting twice, and making five substitute appearances, scoring one goal in Switzerland's opening qualifier against Israel. He anouced his retirement from the Swiss national team on 4 October 2011.[19][20]
Basel
Galatasaray
Young Boys
Individual
| Club performance | League | Cup | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Switzerland | League | Schweizer Cup | Total | |||||
| 1994–95 | Concordia Basel | |||||||
| Basel | Super League | 9 | 4 | |||||
| 1995–96 | 34 | 6 | ||||||
| 1996–97 | 25 | 3 | ||||||
| 1997–98 | Grasshopper | Super League | 11 | 1 | ||||
| 1997–98 | St. Gallen | Super League | 14 | 1 | ||||
| 1998–99 | 20 | 7 | ||||||
| 1998–99 | Grasshopper | Super League | 6 | 2 | ||||
| 1999–00 | 29 | 10 | ||||||
| 2000–01 | 19 | 10 | ||||||
| Basel | Super League | 12 | 4 | |||||
| 2001–02 | 27 | 14 | ||||||
| 2002–03 | 27 | 13 | ||||||
| 2003–04 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
| Germany | League | DFB-Pokal | Total | |||||
| 2003–04 | Stuttgart | Bundesliga | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 2004–05 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Turkey | League | Türkiye Kupası | Total | |||||
| 2004–05 | Galatasaray | Super League | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Switzerland | League | Schweizer Cup | Total | |||||
| 2005–06 | Young Boys | Super League | 20 | 6 | ||||
| 2006–07 | 31 | 10 | ||||||
| 2007–08 | 32 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 24 | ||
| 2008–09 | FC Luzern | Super League | ||||||
| 2009–10 | 29 | 10 | ||||||
| 2010–11 | 9 | 6 | ||||||
| Total | Switzerland | 291 | 108 | |||||
| Germany | 9 | 0 | ||||||
| Turkey | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| Career total | 302 | 108 | ||||||
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 19 February 2000 | Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat | Oman | 4–1 | 4–1 | Friendly |
| 2. | 26 April 2000 | Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern | Germany | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 3. | 16 August 2000 | Espenmoos, St. Gallen | Greece | 2–2 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 4. | 15 August 2001 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna | Austria | 2–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 5. | 1 September 2001 | St. Jakob-Park, Basel | Yugoslavia | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2002 World Cup qualifier |
| 6. | 12 February 2002 | Makario Stadium, Nicosia | Cyprus | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 7. | 13 February 2002 | Tsirion Stadium, Limassol | Hungary | 2–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 8. | 21 August 2002 | St. Jakob-Park, Basel | Austria | 1–1 | 3–2 | Friendly |
| 9. | 8 September 2002 | St. Jakob-Park, Basel | Georgia | 2–1 | 4–1 | Euro 2004 qualifier |
| 10. | 16 October 2002 | Lansdowne Road, Dublin | Republic of Ireland | 1–0 | 2–1 | Euro 2004 qualifier |
| 11. | 12 February 2003 | Nova Gorica Sports Park, Nova Gorica | Slovenia | 1–0 | 5–1 | Friendly |
| 12. | 11 October 2003 | St. Jakob-Park, Basel | Republic of Ireland | 1–0 | 2–0 | Euro 2004 qualifier |
| 13. | 28 April 2004 | Stade de Genève, Geneva | Slovenia | 2–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 14. | 8 September 2004 | St. Jakob-Park, Basel | Republic of Ireland | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2006 World Cup qualifier |
| 15. | 13 October 2007 | Letzigrund, Zurich | Austria | 2–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
| 16. | 11 June 2008 | St. Jakob-Park, Basel | Turkey | 1–0 | 1–2 | Euro 2008 |
| 17. | 15 June 2008 | St. Jakob-Park, Basel | Portugal | 1–0 | 2–0 | Euro 2008 |
| 18. | 2–0 | |||||
| 19. | 20 August 2008 | Stade de Genève, Geneva | Cyprus | 2–0 | 4–1 | Friendly |
| 20. | 6 September 2008 | Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan | Israel | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2010 World Cup qualifier |
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