Aylin Yaren

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Aylin Yaren
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Aylin Yaren playing for Trabzon İdmanocağı in the 2015–16 season
Personal information
Date of birth (1989-08-30) 30 August 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Wedding, Berlin, Germany
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin
Youth career
BFC Meteor 06
VfB Hermsdorf
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009 LdB Malmö 11 (1)
2010 Tennis Borussia Berlin 7 (0)
2010–2012 1. FC Lübars 31 (11)
2012 Hamburger SV 10 (2)
2012–2013 SC 07 Bad Neuenahr 21 (0)
2013–2014 BV Cloppenburg 14 (0)
2014–2015 1. FC Lübars 30 (8)
2016 Trabzon İdmanocağı 6 (4)
2017 Arminia Bielefeld 6 (0)
2017–2018 SV Schott Jena 6 (0)
2018–2022 Türkiyemspor Berlin 55 (77)
2022– FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin 38 (55)
International career
2005 Germany U-17 1 (1)
2006 Turkey U-17 1 (0)
2006–2007 Turkey U-19 11 (8)
2008–2015 Turkey 19 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of May 5, 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of October 25, 2015

Aylin Yaren (born 30 August 1989 in Berlin, Germany) is a Turkish-German midfielder, who currently plays for FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin in Germany. [1]

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Early life

Yaren was born in Berlin, [2] and grew up in Wedding and Reinickendorf. [3] Her first football club was BFC Meteor 06. At school, she completed the Realschulabschluss. [4]

Playing career

Club

Yaren (middle) playing in the away match of Trabzon Idmanocagi against Kirecburnu Spor in the 2015-16 Turkish Women's First Football League AylinYaren (2).JPG
Yaren (middle) playing in the away match of Trabzon İdmanocağı against Kireçburnu Spor in the 2015–16 Turkish Women's First Football League

Yaren played in 2009 at the Swedish Damallsvenskan for LdB Malmö before she returned to Germany to join TeBe Berlin. [5] [6] She transferred from 1. FC Lübars to Hamburger SV at the beginning of 2012, [7] and scored the opening goal in her debut against 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam. [8] [9]

In February 2016, Yaren moved to Turkey to play for Trabzon İdmanocağı in the Turkish First League. [10]

In the 2016–17 season, she returned home, and joined Arminia Bielefeld to play in the 2. Bundesliga Nord. [1] After sustaining an injury, she had to take a break upon advise of her physician. [11]

International

Yaren made her debut for the Turkey women's national football team in a friendly match against Macedonia on 22 January 2006. [12] She played in the Germany youth national and Turkey U-17 national, Turkey U-19 national teams.

International goals
DateVenueOpponentResultCompetitionScored
June 27, 2008 Paide linnastaadion Paide, Estonia Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 6–0UEFA Support International Tournament1
June 29, 2008 Rakvere linnastaadion Rakvere, Estonia Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 4–22

In media and freestyle football shows

In 2007, she took part in the television show Torwandschießen (literally: goal wall shooting) of the German channel ZDF, where she won a type of penalty shootout with 4–3 against FC Bayern Munich's newly transferred French footballer Frank Ribery. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

Yaren is practicing freestyle football by performing the art of self-expression with a football and exhibiting various tricks with her body. [19] She learnt the art from videos on the internet, and she is training three to four hours a day. [15]

She participated from 2010 to 2012 as contestant at episodes of the Turkey's Got Talent television show Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye demonstrating her art of freestyle football. [15] [16] [20] In 2019, she participated at the German TV talent show Das Supertalent showing her football skills there. [21]

Yaren was one of the two players, the other being Julia Simic, who gave freestyle football performances in the roadshow for the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. [22] At the actions during the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup held in Germany, she was invited to perform freestyle football shows again. [17] In 2011, she gave between 50 and 60 performances. [3]

She appears with her shows also at company events and Bundesliga stadiums in Berlin. [18]

In an interview in 2011, she said that she have deliberately not played qualifying games for Turkey for many years in order to keep the possibility open of playing for the German national team. [23] However, she did not receive a nomination by the German national coach. She played her first European Championship qualifying match for Turkey in 2015, whereby she ultimately become long-term bound by the Turkish football association.

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 Bogner, Florian (23 February 2012). "Aylin Yaren: Einziges Mädchen auf dem Bolzplatz – Deutschlands bekannteste Freestylerin im Interview". SPOX.com. SPOX Media. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  3. Kopp, J.; T. Winkler (20 June 2011). "Die deutsch-türkische Fußballerin Aylin Yaren "Traurig, nur als Artistin dabei zu sein"". Sport. taz.de. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  4. Orso, Julia (17 January 2012). "Aylin Yaren über ihren Wechsel zum HSV "Es ist wirklich ein Team"". 11Freundinnen – Interviews. 11Freunde Verlag. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
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  9. "Roadshow". FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Germany 2010. FIFA. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2012.