Zafer Yelen

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Zafer Yelen
Personal information
Full name Zafer Yelen
Date of birth (1986-08-30) 30 August 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Berlin, Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 MSV Normannia 08
Number 37
Youth career
1993–1996 MSV Normannia 08
1996–1998 Reinickendorfer Füchse
1998 Türkiyemspor Berlin
1998–2005 Tennis Borussia Berlin
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2009 Hansa Rostock II 36 (14)
2006–2009 Hansa Rostock 48 (5)
2009–2011 Trabzonspor 0 (0)
2011–2015 FSV Frankfurt 67 (14)
2015–2016 Berliner AK 07 23 (7)
2016–2017 Wacker Nordhausen 5 (0)
2017–2018 Wacker Nordhausen II 7 (3)
2019 FC Brandenburg 4 (1)
2019– MSV Normannia 08 15 (27)
International career
2007–2009 Turkey U21 12 (3)
Managerial career
2020– MSV Normannia 08 II
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 February 2021

Zafer Yelen (born 30 August 1986) is a Turkish footballer who plays for MSV Normannia 08. [1]

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Career

Club career

Yelen was born in Berlin, Germany. He played for various clubs in Berlin, most recently for Tennis Borussia Berlin in the Junior League East, where he was discovered by the former Hansa Rostock coach Frank Pagelsdorf. He then got Timo Lange, the coach of the league, to transfer him to FC Hansa. In the 2005–06 season, his first season in the adult area, Yelen scored 14 goals in 30 games for the second string Rostock team in the league. For the 2006–07 season, he advanced to the second division team where he was a regular player and his playmaking skills developed. He scored five goals in 26 starts and was promoted at the end of the season with Hansa Rostock to the Bundesliga.

Through his achievements in the second division he was also appointed to the Turkish national under-21 team and played on 7 February 2007 in his first game for them.

In the following 2007–08 Bundesliga season, Yelen completed 20 games for the Baltic city dwellers, but was immediately relegated to the second Bundesliga, whereupon Yelen initially sought a change in Turkey, which for lack of sufficient financial security did not come about. After the 2008–09 season with just two appearances for Hansa he tried again to force a change in Turkey. End of the season his contract was finally cancelled in Rostock, and Yelen moved to the Turkish first division side Trabzonspor. In July 2011, Yelen joined second division club FSV Frankfurt.

International

He was a member of the Turkish U-21 national team. He played twice in 2008 Toulon Tournament and five times in the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification.

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References

  1. ↑ "Yelen, Zafer" (in German). Kicker. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
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