Mehmet Fatih Kale

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Mehmet Fatih Kale
Personal information
Full name Mehmet Fatih Kale
Date of birth (1968-05-30) 30 May 1968 (age 54)
Place of birth Ankara, Turkey
Height1.64 m (5 ft 4+12 in)
Managerial career
YearsTeam
2000–2016 Taipei-SCSC Football Club
2006 Taipei Select Men's Team
2014–2016 Chinese Taipei Women's National Futsal Team
2016 Brunei Men's National Team
2017 Chinese Taipei F.A.Technical Director
2018 LAOS U23 Head Coach , Men's NT Interim Head Coach
2021~22 Gençlerbirliği FK Women's Football Sporting Director

Mehmet Fatih Kale (born 30 May 1968) is a Turkish/Taiwanese Football and Futsal coach, and known for his contributions to the development of Women's football and futsal development in Taiwan. In 2014, Kale established the first ever women's Futsal National Team for the Chinese Taipei Football Association. Kale was granted Republic of China (Taiwan) citizenship in January 2018 due to his long time contributions to the sports in the country. Kale is the first football coach from Taiwan to work as head coach of an other nation with his stints in Brunei and Laos. After a year of absence due to covid restrictions, he joined the Turkish club Gençlerbirliği to create a women's football program for the club. [1]

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Managerial statistic

TeamFromToRecord
GWDLWin %
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Taipei Select Men's futsal team 200620063201066.67
Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taipei-SCSC Club 200720161541171621075.97
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chinese Taipei women's national futsal team 201420165302060.00
Flag of Brunei.svg Brunei national futsal team (all friendly matches) 201620167700100.00
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chinese Taipei Men's national futsal team 201720179414044.44
Flag of Laos.svg Laos U23 football team (official and friendly matches) 201820188503062.50
Career totals1861381731074.19

Coaching Achievements

2006 Taipei International Futsal Tournament (Taipei Select Men's Futsal Team) Runners up

2008 Taiwan Women's Futsal Championship (Taipei-SCSC Club) Champion

2009 Taiwan Women's Football League (Taipei-SCSC Club) Champion

2011~2015 (5years back to back)Taiwan Women's Futsal Championship (Taipei-SCSC Club) Champion

Honors

2009 Chinese Taipei Football Association "Coach of The Year" award

Notes and references

  1. Chen, Yu-fu; Chung, Jake (20 January 2018). "TV host, academics among new citizens". Taipei Times. Retrieved 20 January 2018.

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