Engin Özdemir

Engin Özdemir (born 1 October 1968) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder and winger. He is best known for playing for Gençlerbirliği. He is also the father of Youtuber CaniSports.[2]

Engin Özdemir
Personal information
Full name Engin Özdemir
Date of birth (1968-10-01) 1 October 1968[1]
Place of birth Sivas, Turkey
Height 5 ft 7.7 in (1.72 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1978–1987 SV 07 Raunheim
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1988 Mainz 05 6 (0)
1988–1992 Türkgücü München ? (?)
1992–1996 Gençlerbirliği 109 (25)
1996–2001 İstanbulspor 73 (6)
1998–2000 → Adanaspor (loan) 20 (3)
2001 → Diyarbakırspor (loan) 14 (6)
2001 Gençlerbirliği 2 (0)
2002–2003 Antalyaspor 18 (2)
National team
1984–1985 Turkey U16 4 (0)
1996 Turkey 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Club

Özdemir started playing for SV 07 Raunheim at the age of 10, before joining Mainz 05, who at the time were playing in the Oberliga Südwest, 9 years later.[3] During his two year stay, he played 23 matches in all competitions, scoring 11 and getting 1 assist and helped Mainz gain promotion to the 2. Bundesliga for the 1988–89 season.[4]

He then joined Türkgücü München, who were playing in the Landesliga Bayern-Süd. Before leaving in November 1992, Özdemir playing 12 games, scoring 11 times in the 1992–93 season.[5]

Özdemir made 4 appearances at the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup, scoring 5 goals. However, Gençlerbirliği finished third in their group and so failed to progress. With İstanbulspor, he played 6 times and scored 1 goal at the 1997 Intertoto Cup.[6]

International career

Özdemir made his international debut for Turkey on 9 April 1996 in a friendly against Azerbaijan, in which Turkey won 1–0. He played again in a subsequent friendly on 1 May against Ukraine, where Turkey won 3–2.[7]

Coaching

Özdemir was player-coach of SV Dersim Ruesselsheim from July 2009 until December 2009.[8][9] From 2010 until December 2012, he was a player-coach for FV Biebrich.[10][9][11]

From 2013 until 2014, he was the youth team coach for TSG 1846 Mainz-Kastel.[12][13][14] Özdemir was the head coach of the Yeni Malatyaspor youth team from October 2015 until August 2016, where he was made assistant manager of the senior team until May 2017. He was the assistant coach of Eskişehirspor from August 2018 until May 2019.[15] In January 2021, he became the manager of Çatalcaspor, who are in the TFF 3. Lig.[16]

Career statistics

Club
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup [lower-alpha 1] Continental [lower-alpha 2] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Mainz 05 1987–88 Oberliga 6 0 2 0 – – 8 0
1998–89 2. Bundesliga 0 0 – – – – 0 0
Türkgücü München Landesliga ? ? – – – – ? ?
1989–90 ? ? – – – – ? ?
1990–91 ? ? – – – – ? ?
1991–92 ? ? – – – – ? ?
1992–93 12 11 – – – – 12 11
Gençlerbirliği 1992–93[17] 1. Lig[lower-alpha 3] 16 1 – – – – 16 1
1993–94 29 4 – – – – 29 4
1994–95 33 10 1 0 – – 34 10
1995–96 31 10 3 1 4 5 38 16
İstanbulspor 1996–97 28 2 1 1 – – 29 3
1997–98 27 2 3 0 6 1 36 3
1998–99 6 0 – – – – 6 0
Adanaspor 2 0 0 0 – – 2 0
İstanbulspor 1999–2000 5 1 – – – – 5 1
Adanaspor 18 3 1 0 – – 19 3
İstanbulspor 2000–01 7 1 1 1 – – 8 2
Diyarbakırspor 2000–01 2. Lig 14 6 – – – – 14 6
Gençlerbirliği 2001–02 Süper Lig 2 0 – – – – 2 0
Antalyaspor 2001–02 8 1 – – – – 8 1
Antalyaspor 2001-01 1. Lig 10 1 – – – – 10 1
Career total 236 42 10 3 10 6 268 62

International
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Turkey 1996 2 0
Total 2 0

Footnotes
  1. The Südwestpokal and the Turkish Cup
  2. The UEFA Intertoto Cup
  3. Named respectively as Milli Lig between 1959–1962, Türkiye 1. Futbol Ligi (1. Lig) between 1962–2000, and Süper Lig from 2001 to present

References
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  2. 100K SUBS FATHER REVEAL! - 1v1, CROSSBAR CHALLENGE, PENALTIES & MORE!, retrieved 2019-11-26
  3. Güngör, Erdal. "Röportaj: Engin Özdemir". Blog von Erdal Güngör (in French). Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  4. "FSV 05.de - Online-Archiv des 1. FSV Mainz 05". fsv05.de. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  5. "Engin Özdemir". FuPa. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  6. "Turkish Soccer – UEFA Cups". angelfire.com. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  7. "ENGİN ÖZDEMİR – Player Details TFF". tff.org. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  8. "Wenn der Favorit kommt . . ". fnp.de (in German). 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  9. "Engin Özdemir". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  10. "Blue Boyz und Girlz FV Biebrich 02". fvb02.de. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  11. "Blue Boyz und Girlz FV Biebrich 02". fvb02.de. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  12. "Engin Özdemi". Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  13. Heggemann, Heiner (2013-09-16). "C-Jugend auch im Topspiel erfolgreich". TSG 1846 e.V. Mainz-Kastel (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  14. "TSG Kastel - TUS Nordenstadt - Spannung nur in der ersten Spielhälfte". TSG 1846 e.V. Mainz-Kastel (in German). 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  15. "ENGİN ÖZDEMİR – Coach Details TFF". tff.org. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  16. "Çatalcaspor'da Engin Özdemir dönemi| Silivri Hürhaber". www.silivrihurhaber.com. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  17. "Turkey – E. Özdemir – Profile with news, career statistics and history – Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
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