Murat Yakin
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Murat Yakin | ||
| Date of birth | 15 September 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Basel, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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FC Schaffhausen (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1997 | Grasshopper | 101 | (17) |
| 1997–1999 | VfB Stuttgart | 23 | (2) |
| 1998–2000 | Fenerbahçe | 26 | (3) |
| 2000 | FC Basel | 23 | (2) |
| 2000–2001 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 9 | (0) |
| 2001–2006 | FC Basel | 91 | (24) |
| Total | 273 | (48) | |
| National team | |||
| 1994–2004 | Switzerland | 49 | (4) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2006–2007 | Concordia Basel | ||
| 2009–2011 | FC Thun | ||
| 2011–2012 | FC Luzern | ||
| 2012–2014 | FC Basel | ||
| 2014–2015 | Spartak Moscow | ||
| 2017– | FC Schaffhausen | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Murat Yakin (Turkish: Murat Yakın; born 15 September 1974) is a Swiss football coach and former Switzerland national team player.
During his playing career, Yakin was capped 49 times for the Switzerland national team, representing his country at UEFA Euro 2004. He spent arguably the best years of his career playing for his hometown club FC Basel, where he was the defensive linchpin, captain and libero of a team which enjoyed domestic and relative European success. He won the Swiss Super League on five occasions (1995, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2005), and the Swiss Cup three times (1994, 2002, 2003). He recalls the 2002–03 Champions League second leg qualifying match on 28 August 2002 against Celtic in St. Jakob-Park as the "match of his life". Basel won the game 2–0, with Yakin scoring the second goal in the 22 minute as Basel qualified 3–3 on the away goals rule for the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Although his spells abroad were not wholly successful, he was widely regarded as one of Swiss football's finest products, frequently being linked with some of the biggest clubs in Europe. In 2003, he played in the FIFA "Match against Poverty" as part of a star-studded ensemble showcasing the world's best players.
Yakin was appointed coach of FC Thun in 2009 after a time as a youth coach at Grasshopper. In May 2011, he joined FC Luzern for a reported 200,000 Swiss francs. He took over from Christian Brand, who was made caretaker after the sacking of Rolf Fringer.
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