Filiz Koç

Filiz Koç (born 6 October 1986), aka Filiz Heilmann or Filiz Heilmann Koç, is a Turkish-German women's football midfielder, currently playing in the Turkish Women's First League for 1207 Antalya Muratpaşa Belediye Spor with jersey number 13. She is a member of the Turkey women's team.[1] She also has a media career as model, beauty pageant contestant, actress and sideline reporter.[2][3]

Filiz Koç
Personal information
Full name Filiz Heilmann Koç
Date of birth (1986-10-06) 6 October 1986
Place of birth Ankara, Turkey
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 1207 Antalyaspor
Number 13
Youth career
1997 TSV Havelse
1998–2006 Mellendorfer TV
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2009 Mellendorfer TV
2009–2011 FFC Oldesloe 2000 2 (0)
2011–2012 TSV Havelse 17 (1)
2012–2014 SC Wedemark
2014–2015 TSV Limmer 20 (0)
2015–2016 1207 Antalyaspor 16 (1)
National team‡
2002 Turkey girls' U-17 3 (0)
2015 Turkey women's 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 March 2016
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21 October 2015

Early life

Filiz Koç was born to a Turkish father and a German mother in Ankara, Turkey on 6 October 1986.[1][4] Her father, Savaş Koç, played football for the Turkish Süper Lig-team Galatasaray SK between 1986 and 1990.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Her national-footballer father met his later wife during a football match in Munich. The couple married in Turkey, but moved to Germany when Filiz was three years old. [9] where her father continued his football career playing for the Bundesliga team Hannover 96.[4][13] At age 16, she was naturalized in Germany, holding now dual citizenship.[14]

Filiz Koç completed her education in a private school to become an instructor for sports and fitness.[4][10][12][15]

In her early years, she preferred to be called after her mother's family name "Heilmann" hoping so to have more opportunities. Later on, however, she began using her father's surname "Koç".[4]

Sports career

Inspired by her father's sports profession, Filiz Koç developed a passion for football in her childhood at home. Already at age ten, she decided to become a footballer.[4]

Club

She began football playing in 1997 at age eleven,[7][13][14] entering the German club TSV Havelse based near Hanover.[7] The next season, she moved to Mellendorfer TV, and enjoyed in 2008 her team's promotion to the Group North of 2nd Women's Bundesliga (German: 2. Frauen-Bundesliga Nord).[4][5][9] In 2009, she transferred to another 2nd-League-team FFC Oldesloe 2000,[13][14][16] where she briefly played.[10] In the 2011–12 season, she rejoined her first team TSV Havelse in the Women's Regional League North (German: Fußball-Regionalliga Nord Frauen).[10] The next season, she resigned from professional football, and was loaned out to SC Wedemark,[10][17][18][19] which competed in the Landesliga (State League) until the team fell apart at the end of the 2014–15 season.[9][20] She was taken over by TSV Limmer, and played in the Regionalliga one season.[9][20][21]

In September 2015, she moved in a loan-out contract to the Turkish club 1207 Antalya Muratpaşa Belediye Spor, which had finished the 2014–15 season in the Turkish Women's Second League as champion, and was so promoted to the Women"s First League.[6] The release approval of her former club TSV Limmer for her to play in Turkey was set to run out at the end of the 2015–16 season, end of March 2016.[20]

At age 20, she suffered a nasal fracture during a futsal game,[4] and had to undergo a corrective surgery later on.[5]

International

In 2002 at age 16, Filiz Koç was called up to the Turkey girls' under-17 team.[7][22][23] She played three games before she had to stay away from the pitch due to a severe muscle injury.[4]

In 2009, she appeared in two matches of the Turkey women's team.[10][12][24] She was called up again in 2015,[4][5][11] and played in the friendly match against Albania on 19 August 2015.[22] Koç took part at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying Group 5 game against Hungary on 21 October the same year.[1][25]

Career statistics
As of match played 26 March 2016–[1]
Club Season League Continental National Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
1207 Antalyaspor 2015–16 Women's First 161––20181
Total 161––20181

In media

Filiz Koç acts as a model,[12][15][26] and appears in advertisings.[13]

At age 18, she participated at the local beauty pageant "Miss Hannover" upon her mother's request, and placed second.[4]

Representing Turkey, she became runner-up "Miss EM" (EM is the German language abbreviation for European Championship) among 16 contestants ranking after Domenica Huzvarova from the Czech Republic at a beauty pageant held at Europa-Park, Germany on the occasion of the UEFA Euro 2008.[4][5][7][8][14]

Filiz Koç took part in 2010 at the game show Die perfekte Minute broadcast by Sat.1, and won a money prize of €75,000 by exhibiting her freestyle football art.[26][27]

In June 2011, Filiz Koç performed the role of "Fadime Gülüc", a murdered fictional German woman footballer of Turkish descent in the episode Im Abseits (In Offside) of police procedural television series Tatort aired by the ARD channel.[10][11][12][19][28]

She worked as a sideline reporter of Sky Deutschland for the 2. Bundesliga matches beginning with the 2011–12 football season.[9][12]

Filiz Koç appeared in the German reality shows Die Model WG and Das Model und der Freak aired by the German commercial TV channel ProSieben.[10][11][21]

References
  1. "Oyuncu Bilgileri – Filiz Koç" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  2. "Filiz Koc Schauspieler" (in German). *Tatort* Fan Page. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  3. Althoff, Jörg (2011-03-09). "Altintop im Doppelpass mit Filiz Koc (Teil 1)". Bild (in German). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  4. Gence, Hakan (2008-12-27). "Milli takımın Avrupa güzeli Filiz". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  5. "Babasının Kızı: Filiz Heilmann Koç". Four Four Two (in Turkish). 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  6. Yıldırım, Tolga (2015-09-11). "Alman futbolunun Türk güzeli Filiz Koç Antalya 1207 Muratpaşa Belediyespor'da". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  7. Kaymak, Öznur (2011-04-28). "Hamit Altıntop'la sevgili değiliz". Akşam (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  8. Gündüz, Levent (2015-12-23). "Futbolun güzeli aranıyor". Doğan News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  9. Lübke, Janosch (2015-03-05). "Die Frauen des TSV Limmer: Mit Filiz Koc zum Aushängeschild". Hannoversche Allgemeine Neue Presse (in German). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  10. "Filiz Koc wird Reporterin bei Sky". Vaybee! (in German). Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  11. "Deutsche Frauen treffen in EM-Quali auf "Tatort"-Leiche". RP Online (in German). 2015-10-25. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
  12. "Sky Team verpflichtet Ex-Nationalspielerin Filiz Koc". Sky Deutschland (in German). 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  13. "Sexy Fotos von Filiz Koc". Bild (in German). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  14. Elcivan, Temel (2010-01-16). "Almanya'da Filiz Koç rüzgarı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  15. "Ein Fußball spielendes Model in der Zweiten Liga". Die Welt (in German). 2009-12-29. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  16. Bröde, Günther (2011-12-11). "Filiz Koc macht überall eine gute Figur" (in German). Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  17. "Frauen-Nationalmannschaft: Filiz Koc: Wanderin zwischen den Welten" (in German). Fußball-Jobs. 2012-09-06. Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  18. "Filiz Koc schließt sich SC Wedemark an" (in German). SC Wedemark 1926. 2012-07-20. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  19. Giehr, Roland (2012-09-27). "Kommt die Tatort-Torjägerin nach Diedersen?". Deister- und Weserzeitung (in German). Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  20. Szemkus, Jon & Rainer Hennies (2015-11-27). "Filiz Koc vom TSV Limmer zu Antalyaspor: Ein Wechsel auf Zeit". Hannoversche Allgemeine Neue Presse (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-12-01. Retrieved 2016-01-03.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  21. Lochte, Denis. "Erst Tore ballern,dann ein Baby?". Bild (in German). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  22. Jastrzemski, Natascha (2015-10-13). "Adelina Bala und Filiz Koc: TSV Limmer international". Hannoversche Allgemeine Neue Presse (in German). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  23. "Koc: Wanderin zwischen den Welten" (in German). Deutscher Fussball Bund. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  24. "A Bayan Milliler, Azerbaycan'ı 1–0 yendi" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 2009-05-11. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  25. "Kadın A Millilerin, Macaristan ve Almanya maçları aday kadrosu açıklandı" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  26. "Schöne Filiz räumt im TV 75 000 Euro ab". Bild (in German). 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  27. "Filiz Koc lässt die Bälle tanzen". Framba Frauen Fussball (in German). 2010-05-19. Archived from the original on 2014-05-05. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  28. "Die steile Karriere einer Hannoveraner "Tatort"-Leiche". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). 2015-10-18. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
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