Sergen Yalçın
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| Full name | Ali Rıza Sergen Yalçın | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | October 5, 1972 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Istanbul, Turkey | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||
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| 1982–1991 | Beşiktaş | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1991–1997 | Beşiktaş | 158 | (46) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | İstanbulspor | 40 | (15) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Siirt Jet-Pa Spor | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | → Fenerbahçe (loan) | 24 | (8) | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | → Galatasaray (loan) | 21 | (6) | ||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | → Trabzonspor (loan) | 21 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | → Galatasaray (loan) | 18 | (7) | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2006 | Beşiktaş | 100 | (30) | ||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Etimesgut Şekerspor | 23 | (13) | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Eskişehirspor | 21 | (6) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 426 | (132) | |||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 1989 | Turkey U-16 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1990 | Turkey U-18 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Turkey U-21 | 12 | (5) | ||||||||||||
| 1994–2003 | Turkey | 37 | (5) | ||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Beşiktaş A2 | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Gaziantepspor | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Sivasspor | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Gaziantepspor | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Kayserispor | ||||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ali Rıza Sergen Yalçın (born October 5, 1972 in Istanbul) is a former Turkish footballer and is recognised as one of the greatest footballers to play for Turkey. Sergen has played for every one of Turkey's big four clubs, some of them twice, and had stints at a few others as well.
Sergen began at Beşiktaş JK in 1991, and quickly became renowned for his skill and creativity. His first spell at the club saw him score 46 goals in 158 games – no mean feat for a midfielder. However, it was known that Sergen lacked professionalism. After a 4–1 defeat to Samsunspor, he was publicly criticised by the Beşiktaş deputy president due to his careless lifestyle. Sergen responded to the club official by insulting him.
Subsequently, Beşiktaş imposed a club-record fine of over £150,000. He was later forgiven after apologising but the fine stayed. Sergen then demanded a new and improved contract which was denied by the board.
As expected, Sergen departed from the club and became Turkey's record signing when he moved to İstanbulspor for £5.5m in 1997. Thereafter, Sergen now desired a move to the European fields and began contract negotiations with Internazionale and AC Milan. Terms could not be met with the Italian giants. After struggling with his weight due to months of inaction, İstanbulspor failed to offload him, so Jet-Pa (a sports company) bought his contract and arranged a loan deal with Fenerbahçe, which involved him wearing a personalised shirt promoting the company.
Under the coaching firstly from Joachim Löw and Rıdvan Dilmen, he seemed to have buckled down to the task. But when Zdenek Zeman took over, Sergen was consistently engaged in trench warfare. Sergen publicly criticised Zeman for trying to play him on the wing, which he believed was not his best position, and was accused of faking injury to avoid training sessions. Along with many other incidents, the final straw came with the home game against Bursaspor. When he eventually came on as a substitute, Sergen missed a simple scoring chance, which many of the fans believe to have been a deliberate miss as an act of protest or just pure spite. In the late stages of the game, with the score locked at 2–2, he further infuriated the supporters by strolling across to take a corner as though he had all the time in the world. Midway through the 1999–2000 season, Sergen had his contract terminated by Fenerbahçe. Due to his terrific individual showings for the national team, Sergen attracted attention from several foreign clubs. There were speculations about a move to FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund.
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