Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu

Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu
Sucuoğlu playing for Turkey in April 2018.
Personal information
Full name Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu
Date of birth (1998-06-08) 8 June 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Troisdorf, Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 SV Menden 1912
Youth career
2011–2013 SV Menden 1912
2013–2015 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
SV Menden 1912
International career‡
2013 Turkey U17 6 (0)
2018 Turkey 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 March 2018
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 April 2018
Diara Özlem Sucuoğlu challenging the goalkeeper of Estonia women's national team

Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu (born 8 June 1998) is a women's footballer who plays in the German Frauen-Regionalliga-West for SV Menden 1912, as a midfielder.

Born in Germany, she played for the Turkey girls' under-17 team, and is currently a member of the senior Turkish national team.

Personal life

Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu was born to Şeref, a Turkish immigrant father, and Susanne, a German mother, in Troisdorf, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on 8 June 1998.[1] She has a younger brother, Timur, who also plays football.[2]

Sucuoğlu attended realschule in Heimbach for her secondary education. She was successful in maths and sports at school, and planned a career in sport psychology.[2]

Sucuoğlu holds Turkish-German dual citizenship through her Turkish father and German mother.[2]

Playing career

Club

Sucuoğlu began playing football at the age of five inspired by her father, who was the coach of the under-10 team SF Troisdorf.[2] She played with boys in the team.[2] Her father went on to coach the junior teams of IKV Eitorf 1984,[3] and SV Umutspor Troisdorf.[4] He supported Dilara Özlem continuing to play football.[2]

Between 2011 and 2013, Sucuoğlu played in the B-Juniors Mittelrheinliga for the U-17 team of SV Menden 1912 in Sankt Augustin, although she belonged to the C-Juniors division due to her age.[2] She was capped 16 times and scored two goals for them.[5][6] In 2013, she transferred to the U-17 team of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. She played in 29 matches and scored a goal in the Women's Under 17 Bundesliga West/Southwest (B-Juniorinnen Bundesliga West/Südwest) until 2015.[7][8]

Currently, she is a member of SV Menden 1912 playing as a midfielder in the Women's Regional League West (Frauen-Regionalliga-West).[5][9]

International

Sucuoğlu was discovered by the Turkish national team during a tournament in Germany. She was admitted to the Turkey girls' U-17 team. She had difficulties communicating with the Turkish officials and players as she could not speak Turkish at all.[2] She debuted on 8 April 2013 for the Turkey U-17 team in the match against France during the International Women's Under-17 Tournament in Madrid. She was capped for six games in the U-17s.[1][2]

In November 2017, Sucuoğlu was named to the Turkey women's team.[10] However, she did not appear in the friendly match played against Jordan.[1] On 7 April 2018 Sucuoğlu made her first appearance for the national team in the friendly match against the Estonia women's national football team.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Oyuncular – Futbolcular: Diara Özlem Sucuoğlu" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Dilara Sucuoglu Sprung ins Nationalteam". Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (in German). 8 May 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Sucuoglu betreut ein "Problemkind"". General-Anzeiger (in German). 23 August 2005. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  4. ^ Jordan, Thorsten (30 July 2007). "Ansprüche aus dem Niemandsland". Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (in German). Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Dilara Özlem Sucuoglu" (in German). Soccer Donna. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  6. ^ "B-Juniorinnen: Meppens Gieseke und Kregel treffsicher". Deutscher Fußball-Bund. 29 September 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  7. ^ "Dilara Özlem Sucuoglu". Deutscher Fußball-Bund. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  8. ^ "B-Juniorinnen Bundesliga West/Südwest, 2014/2015, 7. Spieltag". Deutscher Fußball-Bund. 8 November 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Frauen-Regionalliga-West SV Menden 17/18" (in German). SV Menden 1912 e.V. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  10. ^ "Kadın Milli Futbol Takımı'nın aday kadrosu belli oldu" (in Turkish). EuroSport Futbol. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  11. ^ "adın A Milli Takımı, Estonya'yı 3–0 yendi" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
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