Hakan Yakin
Yakin in November 2006
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| 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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| Youth career | |||
| 1984–1994 | Concordia Basel | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1995 | Concordia Basel | 9 | (4) |
| 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 | VfB Stuttgart | 9 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | → Galatasaray (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2005–2008 | Young Boys | 83 | (40) |
| 2008–2009 | Al-Gharafa | 15 | (5) |
| 2009–2011 | Luzern | 78 | (26) |
| 2012–2013 | Bellinzona | 32 | (13) |
| Total | 469 | (163) | |
| 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 14 May 2013. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 February 2011 |
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Hakan Yakin (Turkish: Hakan Yakın; born 22 February 1977) is a former Swiss footballer. Since January 2012 until July 2013 he played for Swiss Challenge League club AC Bellinzona and this was his last club. He was member of the Swiss national team for eleven years.
Yakin was born in Basel, Switzerland, to Turkish parents. He grew up and went to school in suburban Münchenstein, Basel-Landschaft, just outside Basel, and close to the borders of France and Germany. He is the younger 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 Basel. His elder half-brother Ertan Irizik is also a former football professional. Yakin's surname is based on the Turkish word Yakın (meaning close, adjacent), 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).
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