Erol Sabanov

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Erol Sabanov
Personal information
Date of birth (1974-05-16) 16 May 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth Aalen, West Germany
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Stuttgarter Kickers
(assistant and goalkeeper coach)
Youth career
0000–1993 VfR Aalen
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1993–2002 VfR Aalen
2002–2004 1. FC Saarbrücken 55 (0)
2005–2006 Jahn Regensburg 44 (0)
2006–2007 SSV Reutlingen 6 (0)
2007–2014 1. FC Heidenheim 172 (0)
Managerial career
2014–2015 1. FC Heidenheim (scout) [1]
2015– Stuttgarter Kickers (goalkeeper coach) [2]
2016– Stuttgarter Kickers (assistant) [3]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Erol Sabanov (born 16 May 1974) is a German former professional footballer [4] who played as a goalkeeper. He is the assistant manager and goalkeeper coach of Stuttgarter Kickers.

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Career

Sabanov began his career with VfR Aalen, and spent nine years playing for the first-team, in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg and later the Regionalliga Süd after the club won promotion in 1999. In 2002, he signed for 1. FC Saarbrücken, with whom he won promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in 2004. He played the first two matches of the 2003–04 season at this level, but lost his place to Peter Eich, and left the club in November 2004. In January 2005, Sabanov signed for Jahn Regensburg, where he spent eighteen months, leaving in 2006 after the club were relegated from the Regionalliga Süd. He spent a year with SSV Reutlingen, serving as understudy to Marco Langner, before joining 1. FC Heidenheim of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2007.

Sabanov was Heidenheim's first choice goalkeeper as they won promotion to the Regionalliga Süd in his first season, and to the 3. Liga the following year. He lost his place to Frank Lehmann for the 2011–12 season, but won it back eleven games into the following season. He retired at the end of the 2013–14 season, having helped Heidenheim win promotion to the 2. Bundesliga.

Personal life

Sabanov is of Turkish Bulgarian origin. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Scout Erol Sabanov verlässt den 1. FC Heidenheim Archived 17 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine , .fc-heidenheim.de, 25 March 2015
  2. ↑ KICKERS VERPFLICHTEN SABANOV, stuttgarter-kickers.de, 25 March 2015
  3. ↑ SABANOV ÜBERNIMMT DOPPELFUNKTION, stuttgarter-kickers.de, 24 March 2016
  4. ↑ "Sabanov, Erol" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  5. ↑ SV Sandhausen holt schwäbische Torwart-Legende, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 2017, retrieved 29 March 2021, Der 43-jährige Aalener mit bulgarisch-türkischen Wurzeln war eine Torwart-In-stitution im Südwesten.


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