Arda Turan ( bear 30 January 1987 ) is a turkish professional football player who plays as an attacking midfielder for Galatasaray. Turan is by and large known for his ball control, dribbling skills and vision. At age 21, anterior to the 2009–10 season, he was named captain of Galatasaray.
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Following a successful UEFA Euro 2008 campaign, Turan was ranked one-eighth in a choice of the 100 Best Young Football Players in the World slice published by spanish magazine Don Balón in July 2008. [ 4 ] Turan was ranked 38th in “ The 100 Best Footballers in the World ” by The Guardian in 2014, the lone musician on the list to be born in Turkey. [ 5 ] On 25 November 2014, Turan was nominated for the UEFA Team of the year for 2014, among 39 other players. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Turan holds 100 senior national caps and 17 goals for the Turkey national team, making him Turkey ‘s fifth-most capped actor of all-time .
Club career [edit ]
Galatasaray [edit ]
Turan is a product of the Galatasaray youth. He was promoted to the Galatasaray first-team by coach Gheorghe Hagi in 2004–05 season, and he made his official debut against Bursaspor in a turkish Cup match on 22 January 2005. He then had a while on loan to fellow Süper Lig slope Manisaspor in the second half of the 2005–06 season. In the 2005–06 season, Turan scored two goals for the team based in Manisa. Turan was recalled to Galatasaray for the begin of the 2006–07 season and quickly broke into the first team. It was during this clock time that he received his first senior international call up. He helped Galatasaray qualify for the follow temper ‘s UEFA Champions League group degree. Turan continued his exploitation in the 2007–08 temper, scoring seven goals in the moment half of the season. At the startle of the 2009–10 season, Turan was handed the captainship of Galatasaray [ 8 ] and given squad total 10, which had previously belonged to Metin Oktay and Hagi ; Turan previously wore issue 66. [ 9 ] As master at the start of temper, Turan guided his team to six consecutive league wins games which put Galatasaray comfortably at the top of the mesa. In the 2010–11 temper, he was troubled with injuries and played a circumscribed number of games. By the end of the season, he had played in merely 12 league matches, scoring two goals ; and in three turkish Cup matches, where he scored one. His impressive performances over the survive four years of his Galatasaray career lead to interest from spanish club Atlético Madrid. [ 10 ]
Atlético Madrid [edit ]
In the late hours of 9 August 2011, it was announced Turan would be joining Atlético Madrid for a €12 million remove fee plus bonuses, [ 11 ] making him the most expensive turkish football player of all-time. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] He was handed the number 11 shirt and made his 2011–12 La Liga debut on 28 August 2011 against Osasuna, entering as a substitute in the moment half. He made his UEFA Europa League debut on 15 September against Celtic, starting the match and assisting a finish. On 18 September, he was again selected for the get down eleven and provided two assists. On 25 October, Galatasaray club president Ünal Aysal stated Turan will come back to Galatasaray in the future under right of first refusal that was signed between Galatasaray and Atlético during an interview with Lig television receiver. [ 14 ] On 30 November, Turan scored his first goal for Atlético in a Europa League match against Celtic with a mighty volley. On 11 December, he scored his first La Liga goal with a drive volley merely outside the box. In the Europa League match that followed, he netted again in a 3–1 succeed against Rennes. Turan scored two goals in two minutes as Atlético defeated Espanyol 3–1 on 22 April 2012 to move his side into seventh place in the league standings and just three points behind Málaga for the final Champions League blot. [ 15 ] On 9 May, in the 2012 UEFA Europa League Final against Athletic Bilbao, he made an assist to his teammate Radamel Falcao, which made the score 2–0. Turan ‘s act was changed from 11 to 10 before the 2012–13 season. He began his season with a game-tying long-distance screamer in Atlético ‘s 1–1 La Liga season undoer against Levante. He then won the 2012 UEFA Super Cup with Atlético against Champions League victors Chelsea, assisting Falcao for the third goal of the plot in a 4–1 victory. [ 16 ] On 16 September 2012, he scored the third goal of the crippled against Rayo Vallecano in a 4–3 family winnings. He was instrumental in Atlético ‘s wins in their first two 2013–14 Champions League matches against Zenit Saint Petersburg and Porto, scoring a goal in each match. [ 17 ] On 30 April 2014, he scored the concluding goal of a 3–1 away win against Chelsea in the semi-finals of the Champions League, sending Atlético to the final for the first clock since 1974. [ 18 ] Entering the match as a utility one hour into the match, Turan scored the decisive goal in the 76th moment for Atlético in their 1–2 away league acquire against bowler hat rivals veridical Madrid on 13 September 2014. After the match, Atlético coach Diego Simeone hailed Turan ‘s impact on Atlético ‘s game. [ 19 ] On 1 October 2014, Turan scored the lone goal of the catch in the 1–0 succeed against Juventus in the group stage of the 2014–15 Champions League season. On 28 January 2015, in the 47th moment of the home leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-final against Barcelona, Turan threw his boot in the commission of the adjunct referee, when he was denied a free-kick for an alleged clog by Ivan Rakitić. [ 20 ] After the peer, however, he was not handed a banish for the incident. [ 21 ] Atlético were eliminated from the tournament as the equal ended with a 2–3 get the better of, 2–4 frustration on aggregate. On 22 April, Turan was sent off for a clog on Sergio Ramos as Atlético lost 0–1 at real number Madrid to be eliminated from the quarter-finals of the Champions League. [ 22 ]
Barcelona [edit ]
On 6 July 2015, Barcelona announced the bless of Turan from Atlético for €34 million, plus €7 million in variables. The contract would run for five seasons, but Turan would entirely be able to debut for the Catalans in January 2016, after Barcelona ‘s remove prohibition had been lifted. [ 23 ] On 29 December 2015, Turan picked number 7 for his shirt. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Starting the match in the starting line-up, Turan made his debut on 6 January 2016 in a Derbi barceloní meet against Espanyol in the first gear stage of the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey, which ended 4–1 for Barcelona. [ 26 ] He placed a inject in the second half that was saved by Espanyol goalkeeper Pau. [ 26 ] Turan played his first gear Liga peer with Barcelona on 9 January 2016, the 17th matchday of the temper, at home against Granada. The peer ended 4–0, with Turan assisting Lionel Messi ‘s opening goal. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] On 17 August 2016, Turan scored twice and Lionel Messi once as Barcelona earned a 3–0 second-leg victory over Sevilla to win the 2016 Supercopa de España 5–0 on aggregate. [ 29 ] On 7 December 2016, Turan scored his inaugural hat-trick for Barcelona during a Champions League group stage match against Borussia Mönchengladbach. He became the one-sixth player in Barça history to score a hat-trick in the Champions League, after Messi, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Samuel Eto’o and Neymar. [ 30 ] This besides marked Turan ‘s first gear hat-trick in european competitions .
İstanbul Başakşehir ( loan ) [edit ]
After not playing a one game for Barcelona in the 2017–18 season, Arda was loaned out to Turkish clubhouse İstanbul Başakşehir for the end of the season and two more, in the winter transmit window. [ 31 ] He made his debut for the clubhouse in a league pit on 21 January 2018, coming off the bench in the sixty-fifth minute marker and scoring the one-third goal in the 3–0 away win over Bursaspor. [ 32 ] On 4 May 2018, Turan was sent off in a league match against Sivasspor for pushing an adjunct referee after disagreeing with a predominate. [ 33 ] He received a 16-match banish from the Turkish Federation ‘s corrective board, the longest punishment ever issued to a player in the country. [ 34 ] Later, however, the ban was reduced to 10 games by TFF ‘s arbitration board. [ 35 ] On 7 January 2020, Turan ‘s loanword was terminated six months early by Başakşehir. [ 36 ]
fall to Galatasaray [edit ]
On 5 August 2020, Galatasaray announced the sign of Turan on a biennial cover. [ 37 ] Due to a long-run injury to goalkeeper Fernando Muslera, he was made the club ‘s captain. [ 38 ] He played his foremost official peer of the 2020–21 season against Gaziantep in the Super League on 12 September .
International career [edit ]
Turan playing for Turkey in 2011 Turan was a turkish international regular, having made over 90 appearances for Turkey at aged level. He made his debut in the 1–0 friendly victory over Luxembourg on 16 August 2006, having worked his means through the youth home team at the under-19 and under-21 levels. He scored his foremost external goal on 25 May 2008 in a friendly against Uruguay. Turan featured in nine of Turkey ‘s 12 reservation matches for Euro 2008, and starred in the finals of the tournament itself. Turan scored two goals during Turkey ‘s progress to the semi-finals. The first was a last-minute winner against co-hosts Switzerland in their second group stage match to eliminate them from the rival. [ 39 ] His second came in the final examination group stage equal against the Czech Republic, in which the winner would go through to the quarter-finals ascribable to identical records. He scored Turkey ‘s first goal in the second half, beating goalkeeper Petr Čech with a gloomy shoot, which led to Turkey coming from 2–0 down to win the match. [ 40 ] He besides successfully converted a spot-kick in the penalty gunfight against Croatia in the quarter-finals, [ 41 ] taking Turkey to the semi-finals, where they were finally knocked out by losing finalists Germany. Turan scored two goals during the reservation rounds of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but ultimately Turkey failed to qualify from their group. After a qualifier in September 2008 between Armenia and Turkey – the two sides having historical political problems – both teams received a FIFA Fair Play Award for 2008. [ 42 ] Turan scored the Turkish national team ‘s 600th international goal in a 2010 World Cup qualification game, against Estonia on 5 September 2009. [ 43 ] he scored four goals for Turkey during the qualification rounds of the Euro 2012, two against Kazakhstan, one against Belgium, and one against Austria. Turkey, however, could not qualify for the final stages of Euro 2012 after being eliminated by Croatia in the play-offs. In June 2017, Turan attacked verbally and tried to strangulate journalist Bilal Meşe in a plane slip back from a bet on against Macedonia. He then stated that he did n’t feel any compunction and that he would not be playing for Turkey anymore. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] however, after the net of point coach Fatih Terim and the new coach Mircea Lucescu expressing his wish for Turan to return, he declared in August that he would resume playing for Turkey. [ 46 ] He was granted his 100th and final international appearance for Turkey in the 3–0 kill to Iceland national football team in 2018 World Cup qualifying group match in October 2017. [ 47 ]
personal life [edit ]
Turan is Muslim. [ 48 ] On 16 November 2008, Turan collapsed during a match against İstanbul BB. After being rushed to hospital, he was diagnosed with cardiac cardiac arrhythmia. [ 49 ] The day after the incident, doctors declared that Turan was in good health and that extreme debilitation caused the cardiac arrhythmia. In November 2009, he suffered a minor turn of swine influenza but recovered within a few days to resume training. [ 50 ] In January 2009, he was involved in a car doss in Istanbul. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Turan suffered no dangerous injuries and continued training with only cuts and bruises. [ 53 ] Turan dated Turkish actress Sinem Kobal since August 2009. [ 54 ] The pair became engaged in January 2010, splitting in belated 2013. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] Turan married Aslıhan Doğan on 11 March 2018. President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the wedding where he was acting as a spectator of the marriage. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] In October 2018, the couple ‘s first child, a son named Hamza Arda, was born. [ 59 ] Another son named Asil Aslan was born in June 2020. [ 60 ] Arda Turan received a suspend conviction of 2 years and 8 months after being found guilty of firing a gun to cause panic, illegal possession of weapons and intentional wound. Turan got into a bash with Berkay Şahin in 2018 which ended with a break nozzle for the pop star. Turan appeared at the hospital with a accelerator, allegedly begging for forgiveness from Şahin, panic ensued after the football player fired the weapon at the background. Turan will not serve his imprison term if no further incidents occur for five years. [ 61 ]
jacob’s ladder [edit ]
Turan is besides known for his human-centered work, particularly in the helping of pale children. [ 62 ] On 11 May 2014, Turan was announced as a grace ambassador for the Khojaly massacre. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] [ 65 ] His ambassador activities are aimed to raise awareness about this publish and promoting populace peace. [ 66 ] [ 67 ]
Media [edit ]
In January 2010, Turan was voted as the third-most popular european football player of 2009, vitamin a well as the 14th-most popular football player in the world, by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics ( IFFHS ). [ 68 ] [ 69 ] He was featured on the cover of the television game FIFA 15 in Turkey. together with, at the clock time teammate, Lionel Messi. [ 70 ]
Politics [edit ]
Turan is known for his long-standing support of President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. [ 71 ]
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
Club
Season
League
National Cup
Europe
Other
Total
Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Galatasaray
2004–05
Süper Lig
1
0
1
0
0
0
—
2
0
2006–07
29
5
3
1
7[a]
2
0
0
39
8
2007–08
30
7
7
0
7[b]
1
—
44
8
2008–09
29
8
6
2
11[c]
2
0
0
46
12
2009–10
29
7
6
4
12[d]
0
—
47
11
2010–11
12
2
3
1
4[d]
3
—
19
6
Total
130
29
26
8
41
8
0
0
197
45
Manisaspor (loan)
2005–06
Süper Lig
15
2
0
0
—
—
15
2
Atlético Madrid
2011–12
La Liga
33
3
0
0
12[d]
2
—
45
5
2012–13
32
5
7
0
2[d]
0
—
41
5
2013–14
30
3
5
2
9[a]
4
2[e]
0
46
9
2014–15
32
2
4
0
10[a]
1
0
0
46
3
Total
127
13
16
2
33
7
2
0
178
22
Barcelona
2015–16
La Liga
18
2
4
0
3[a]
0
0
0
25
2
2016–17
18
3
5
4
5[a]
4
2[e]
2
30
13
2017–18
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total
36
5
9
4
8
4
2
2
55
15
İstanbul Başakşehir (loan)
2017–18
Süper Lig
11
2
0
0
—
—
11
2
2018–19
17
0
2
0
—
—
19
0
2019–20
9
0
0
0
3
0
—
12
0
Total
37
2
2
0
3
0
—
42
2
Galatasaray
2020–21
Süper Lig
32
4
1
0
1[d]
0
—
34
4
2021–22
0
0
0
0
2[a]
0
—
2
0
Total
32
4
1
0
3
0
—
36
4
Career total
377
55
54
14
88
19
4
2
523
90
International [edit ]
Turan with Turkey in 2016 beginning :
Turkey
Year
Apps
Goals
2006
5
0
2007
9
0
2008
12
4
2009
9
1
2010
7
5
2011
8
2
2012
11
0
2013
10
1
2014
7
0
2015
9
3
2016
8
1
2017
5
0
Total
100
17
International goals [edit ]
- Turkey score listed first, score column indicates score after each Turan goal.
Honours [edit ]
baseball club [edit ]
Turan ( in sunglasses ) on Atlético ‘s victory parade after winning La Liga in 2014 Galatasaray
Atlético Madrid
Barcelona
International [edit ]
Turkey
See besides [edit ]
References [edit ]
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