Oğuzhan Özyakup

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Oğuzhan Özyakup
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Özyakup in 2016
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-09-23) 23 September 1992 (age 31)
Place of birth Zaandam, Netherlands
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Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Beşiktaş
Number 15
Youth career
2005–2008 AZ
2008–2012 Arsenal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2012 Arsenal 0 (0)
2012– Beşiktaş 110 (19)
International career‡
2008–2009 Netherlands U17 15 (5)
2011–2012 Netherlands U19 9 (2)
2012–2014 Turkey U21 7 (3)
2013– Turkey 15 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 May 2016
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 06 September 2015

Oğuzhan Özyakup (born 23 September 1992), simply known as Ozzy,[1] is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Beşiktaş and the Turkish national team. A product of the Arsenal Academy and AZ Alkmaar Academy, he made his competitive first-team debut for Arsenal in a League Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town.

Early years

Özyakup signed for Arsenal on schoolboy forms on 1 September 2008,[2] and made numerous appearances for the Arsenal Academy and Arsenal Reserves before he made his competitive first team debut for Arsenal in a League Cup match against Shrewsbury Town, supplying the assist for Yossi Benayoun to round off the game 3–1.[3]

Club career

Arsenal

On 28 August 2011, Özyakup was named a substitute for the Premier League match against Manchester United in which the London-based club suffered a heavy 8–2 defeat.[4] He was an unused substitute in Arsenal's Champions League Round of 16 second-leg tie against Milan, which Arsenal won 3–0 on the night, but went down 4–3 on aggregate.[5]

Beşiktaş

Beşiktaş completed the signing of Özyakup on 8 June 2012 for a fee of €500,000. The club officially disclosed that he would make €400,000 in the 2012–13 season plus a €100,000 sign-on bonus.[6] In June 2014 the club officially announced that it was going to pay him €1,300,000 in the 2015–16 season plus a €10,000 match bonus per game. [7] Özyakup earned his 100th league cap on 6 March 2016,[8] at week 24 home game against Eskişehirspor, ended 3–1 for Beşiktaş.[9]

International career

Özyakup was part of the Netherlands U17 that reached the UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship final in 2009.[10] At age 19, he chose to play for Turkey instead of the Netherlands.[11] Coincidentally Özyakup scored his first international goal for Turkey against Netherlands on 06 September 2015 in the Euro 2016 qualifiers.[12]

Style of play and reception

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"Someone who saw Oğuzhan [Özyakup] yesterday for the first time might say: "What kind of a player is that? Did he come from outer space?". They might say: "He driblles like [Zinedine] Zidane." He is an intelligent player."

Rıdvan Dilmen, 17 August 2015, Fanatik.[13]

Özyakup is an attacking-minded central midfielder.[14] Being able to play simple and quickly,[15][16] Özyakup can lead the team play.[17] He is skillful on finishing, positioning, and possesses high level of anticipation that makes him to be right place at pitch, according to Turkish former international, ex-Beşiktaş J.K. forward Feyyaz Uçar.[18]

Özyakup is considered an intelligent player and was once called once a magician[19][20] by Turkish former international and current pundit Rıdvan Dilmen in 2015.[21] Özyakup is praised by Dilmen for his [Zinedine] Zidane-alike dribbling attributes and touted to be talented enough to play at F.C. Barcelona.[22]

Career statistics

Club

As of 16 May 2016.[23]
Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Assist Apps Goals Assist Apps Goals Assist Apps Goals Assist Apps Goals Assist
Arsenal 2011–12 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1
Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1
Beşiktaş 2012–13 28 2 7 2 0 1 — — 30 2 8
2013–14 26 6 3 1 0 1 — 2 1 0 29 7 4
2014–15 25 2 5 6 0 3 — 11 1 4 42 3 12
2015–16 31 9 7 5 1 0 — 5 0 1 40 10 8
Total 110 19 22 14 1 5 — 18 2 5 142 22 32
Career total 110 19 22 14 1 5 2 0 1 18 2 5 144 22 33

International

As of 16 May 2016.[24]

Scores and results table. Turkey's goal tally first:

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 6 September 2015 Torku Arena, Konya, Turkey  Netherlands 1-0 3-0 UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying

Honours

Club

Arsenal Youth
Beşiktaş

References

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  3. ↑ Arsenal 3–1 Shrewsbury, bbc.co.uk, 20 September 2011. accessed 20 September 2011
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ BBC Sport – Arsenal 3–0 AC Milan (agg 3–4). Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2012-05-30.
  6. ↑ Official: Beşiktaş sign Arsenal youth Oğuzhan Özyakup for €500,000 Turkish-football.com
  7. ↑ Profesyonel futbol takımımız oyuncuları Necip Uysal, Oğuzhan Özyakup ve Olcay Şahan'ın sözleşmeleri yenilenmiştir
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  10. ↑ Paul Saffer. Germany reward fans with U17 success, uefa.com, 18 May 2009. accessed 20 September 2011
  11. ↑ Kalbimin sesini dinledim (I listen my heart). Hurriyet.com.tr. 11 February 2012. Retrieved on 2012-05-30.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Oğuzhan uzaydan mı geldi!. Retrieved 28 December 2015
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  23. ↑ Oğuzhan Özyakup career statistics at Soccerbase
  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

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