Hakan Sukur Biography

Hakan Sukur Biography
Full name : Hakan Şükür
Date of birth : September 1, 1971 (age 35)
Place of birth : Adapazarı, Sakarya, Turkey
Height : 1.91 m
Nickname : Bull of the Bosphorus
Playing position : Striker

Club
1987–90 : Sakaryaspor , 44 (10)
1990–92 : Bursaspor , 54 (11)
1992–95 : Galatasaray , 90 (54)
1995 : Torino , 5 (1)
1995–2000 : Galatasaray , 156 (120)
2000–01 : Internazionale , 24 (5)
2002 : Parma , 15 (3)
2002–03 : Blackburn Rovers , 9 (2)
2003–present : Galatasaray , 106 (44)

National Team
1992–present : 107 (50)

Hakan Şükür, (born on September 1, 1971 in Adapazarı, Sakarya, Turkey), is a Turkish footballer playing the striker position. He was named as "king (kral)" by lovers.
Along with then team-mate Gheorghe Hagi, he was a member of the UEFA Cup-winning Galatasaray side of 2000. He is remembered by supporters for his scoring in European competition that year, including his superb goals against Leeds United, one in which he danced past three of their defenders to score and help send his team to the final. He is also remembered for his penalty in Galatasaray's penalty shoot-out victory over Arsenal F.C. in the final.
Hakan currently plays for the Turkish club Galatasaray SK, having spent eight seasons with them in the 1990s. In 2000, he moved to Inter Milan (Italy) then spent short spells at Parma (Italy) and Blackburn Rovers (England) before rejoining Galatasaray SK in 2003.
In the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Şükür's national team went all the way to the semifinals even though he was hopelessly out of form for most of the tournament. He finally showed a glimpse of his talent when, in the third-place game against South Korea, he scored the fastest goal ever in a World Cup finals match. İlhan Mansız forced a Korean defender into a blunder immediately off the opening kickoff, Şükür pounced on the free ball and put the ball into the Korean net after only 10.8 seconds.

Hakan was capped for the 100th time in a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Ukraine. He is the third Turkish player, after Bülent Korkmaz and Rüştü Reçber, to receive this honor.All together Hakan has scored 218 Galatasaray SK goals.
Hakan's fame in Turkey is such that his 2002 wedding was televised live.

Career achievements

Multiple Turkish Premier Super League champion,
Turkish Cup winner and top goalscorer.
Received best scorer of the World award by FIFA 1998.
2000 UEFA Cup winner.
2002 FIFA World Cup, achieved third place with the Turkish national football team.
Three times league top scorer (1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999)
Second in the top goal scorers list in Turkish Superlig history. Hakan scored 238 goals in his career, Tanju Çolak holds the title with 240 goals.
Has been capped 107 times for the Turkish national football team.
Scored the fastest goal ever in World Cup history (10.8 seconds) in 2002.
Most successful player on the Turkish national team (50 goals in 107 international matches).
Scored 38 goals in 34 matches in his best season.
In November 2003, to celebrate UEFAs Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Turkey by the Turkish Football Federation as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.
He is the leading active international goal scorer in Europe with 50 international goals in 107 matches.

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