Attila Yıldırım
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 22 November 1990 | ||
| Place of birth | Bad Mergentheim, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Tarsus İdman Yurdu | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–2010 | Ajax | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2011 | Utrecht | 2 | (1) |
| 2011–2012 | Kasımpaşa | 19 | (4) |
| 2012–2014 | Konyaspor | 22 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | → Bucaspor (loan) | 16 | (1) |
| 2014 | → Şanlıurfaspor (loan) | 7 | (2) |
| 2014–2015 | Elazığspor | 8 | (1) |
| 2015 | Kocaeli Birlik Spor | 12 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Sivas Belediye Spor | 30 | (11) |
| 2016–2017 | Nazilli Belediyespor | 18 | (1) |
| 2017–2018 | MVV Maastricht | 29 | (8) |
| 2018–2019 | Sumgayit FK | 16 | (3) |
| 2020 | Kirsehir Belediyespor | 0 | (0) |
| 2020– | Tarsus İdman Yurdu | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 September 2020 | |||
Attila Yıldırım (born 22 November 1990) is a Turkish-Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Tarsus İdman Yurdu.
Career
[edit]Yıldırım has played club football in the Netherlands and Turkey for Utrecht, Kasımpaşa and Konyaspor.[1][2][3] He signed his first professional contract at FC Utrecht's Paf team and was soon included in the first team squad. He made his first official appearance for the first team in the 2010-11 season on January 19, 2011 in the Eredivisie match against VVV-Venlo. In this first match, he scored his first goal in the Eredivisie. In the following weeks of the season, he took part in two more matches.[4]
On June 18, 2011, it was announced that he would be transferred to Sivasspor, one of the Super League teams.[5] This transfer did not materialize afterwards and he was transferred to Kasımpaşa, a 1st League team. He made his first official appearance for Kasımpaşa in the Ligue 1 match against Denizlispor on September 25, 2011.[6] In August 2012, he was transferred to Torku Konyaspor.
In August 2018, it was announced that he transferred to Sumgayit FK, one of the Azerbaijan Premier League teams.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Yildirim was born in Germany to a Turkish family from Sivas. He moved to the Netherlands at a young age, and joined the AFC Ajax youth academy at the age of 7.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile" (in Dutch). Voetbal International.
- ^ "Profile" (in Turkish). Turkish Football Federation.
- ^ Attila Yıldırım at Soccerway
- ^ "Arşivlenmiş kopya". Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ^ "Sivas Atilla Yıldırım ile anlaştı". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 9 May 2017. Archived from the original on 7 July 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ "Arşivlenmiş kopya". Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ^ ""Sumqayıt"ın "Azərbaycan əsilli" yeni transferi əslində haralıdı?". FootballPress.az. Archived from the original on 24 August 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
- ^ "Sivas Atilla Yıldırım ile anlaştı".
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