Okan Buruk

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Okan Buruk
Personal information

Full name	Okan Buruk
Date of birth	(1973-10-19) 19 October 1973
Place of birth	Istanbul, Turkey
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 6 ¹⁄₂ in)^[1]
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
1987–1991	Galatasaray
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1991–2001	Galatasaray	189	(33)
2001–2004	Internazionale	25	(2)
2004–2006	Beşiktaş	43	(1)
2006–2008	Galatasaray	19	(2)
2008–2010	İstanbul B.B.	28	(0)
Total		304	(38)
National team
1989–1990	Turkey U16	5	(0)
1990–1992	Turkey U18	28	(4)
1992–1995	Turkey U21	13	(1)
1992–2010	Turkey	56	(8)
Teams managed
2010–2012	Turkey U21
2012–2013	Turkey (Assistant)
2013–	Elazığspor
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Okan Buruk (born 19 October 1973) is a Turkish former international footballer who played in the midfielder position. He played for Galatasaray, Internazionale, Beşiktaş, and İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor. He also won 56 caps with the Turkey national football team.

Career

Okan played for Turkish giants Galatasaray and helped them win a UEFA Cup, Super Cup and many Turkish titles during his 10-year stay (1991–2001). In 1992, his leg was broken in a game against Trabzonspor, and he had a year long hiatus. During his tenure at Galatasaray, he was best known for his incredible pace, determination, high work rate and long range shots on goal.

This talent was not missed by top European clubs and in 2001, he was signed by Italian Giants Internazionale and stayed on for 3 years. He was then signed by Beşiktaş and returned to Turkey. At the start of the 2006/2007 season Okan signed for Galatasaray, rejoining his old club. Okan has been having trouble to play first-team game since he is back to Turkey from Italy. Okan scored his first goal after returning to Galatasaray against Liverpool in Champions League first round closing match with a spectacular long range shot. That goal secured Galatasaray's only victory in their Champions League season but, not quite enough to keep them alive in European football for 2007 winter.

He was signed by İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor for 2 years on 3 July 2008 after his contract expired with Galatasaray.

Personal life

He got married to former Miss Turkey and top model Nihan Akkuş on 3 July 2007.

Career statistics

Club

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Galatasaray	1991–92	1	2	-	-	-	-	1	2
	1992–93	15	0	-	-	-	-	15	0
	1993–94	2	0	-	-	-	-	2	0
	1994–95	20	0	-	-	-	-	20	0
	1995–96	28	1	-	-	-	-	28	1
	1996–97	16	3	-	-	-	-	16	3
	1997–98	24	3	-	-	-	-	24	3
	1998–99	28	11	-	-	-	-	28	11
	1999–00	28	8	-	-	-	-	28	8
	2000–01	26	2	-	-	-	-	26	2
	Total	188	30	0	0	0	0	188	30
Internazionale	2001–02	7	0	-	-	-	-	7	0
	2002–03	15	2	-	-	-	-	15	2
	2003–04	3	0	-	-	-	-	3	0
	Total	25	2	0	0	0	0	25	2
Beşiktaş	2004–05	22	0	-	-	-	-	22	0
	2005–06	21	1	-	-	-	-	21	1
	Total	43	1	0	0	0	0	43	1
Galatasaray	2006–07	15	1	-	-	-	-	15	1
	2007–08	4	1	-	-	-	-	4	1
	Total	19	2	0	0	0	0	19	2
İstanbul BB	2008–09	17	0	-	-	-	-	17	0
	2009–10	11	0	-	-	-	-	11	0
	Total	28	0	0	0	0	0	28	0
Career total		303	35	0	0	0	0	303	35

International

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Turkey	1992	1	0
	1998	3	0
	1999	5	0
	2000	8	2
	2001	9	2
	2002	7	2
	2003	9	1
	2004	9	0
	2005	4	1
	2010	1	0
Total		56	8

Honours

Galatasaray

Turkish League (7): (1992–93, 1993–94, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999-00, 2007–08)
UEFA Cup (1): (2000)
UEFA Super Cup (1): (2000)

Turkey

UEFA Euro 2000: Quarter-finalist
FIFA World Cup 2002: 3rd place

Personal

2000 UEFA Super Cup: "Man of the match"

References

↑ "Buruk player profile". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 1 June 2012.

External links

Okan Buruk at National-Football-Teams.com
Profile at TFF.org
Profile at transfermarkt.de

Turkey squads

v t e Turkey squad – UEFA Euro 2000

1 Rüştü 2 Tayfur 3 Ogün 4 Fatih 5 Alpay 6 Arif 7 Okan 8 Tugay 9 Hakan Şükür 10 Sergen 11 Tayfun 12 Ömer 13 Osman 14 Suat 15 İzzet 16 Ergün 17 Oktay 18 Ayhan 19 Abdullah 20 Hakan Ünsal 21 Fevzi 22 Ümit Davala Coach: Denizli

v t e Turkey squad – 2002 FIFA World Cup Third Place

1 Rüştü 2 Emre Aşık 3 Bülent 4 Fatih Akyel 5 Alpay 6 Arif 7 Okan 8 Tugay 9 Hakan Şükür (c) 10 Baştürk 11 Hasan Şaş 12 Ömer 13 İzzet 14 Tayfur 15 Nihat 16 Ümit Özat 17 İlhan 18 Ergün 19 Abdullah 20 Hakan Ünsal 21 Emre 22 Ümit Davala 23 Zafer Coach: Güneş

v t e Sanica Boru Elazığspor – current squad

1 Iveša 2 D. Aslan 5 İ. Kaş 6 Mehmet 8 Sane 10 S. Gürler 11 Köksal 14 A. Görkem 15 Hadji 16 Alkan 18 D. Yılmaz 19 Noyan 21 S. Özkan 22 Adem 24 M. Ali 27 Sow 28 Moore 32 Onur 34 Volkan 35 Batuhan 40 Vitolo 46 Gökdemir 48 Alper 58 Bilica 61 Çağlar 68 H. Söyler 88 Özgür 90 Zeegelaar 91 Mücahit 95 Kerem 97 Coşkun 99 Zülküf Manager: Buruk

v t e Süper Lig managers

Arveladze Aybaba Bakkal Bilić Buruk Çalımbay Çapa Daum Hamzaoğlu Kafkas Mancini Özdilek Prosinečki Roberto Carlos Sağlam Yalçın Yanal

Persondata
Name	Buruk, Okan
Alternative names
Short description	Turkish footballer
Date of birth	1973-10-19
Place of birth	Istanbul
Date of death
Place of death

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