Profile Hakan Yakin

Personal information

Full name : Hakan Yakin

Date of birth : 22 February 1977

Place of birth : Basel, Switzerland

Height : 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

Playing position : Striker, Second Striker,

Attacking : Midfielder, Winger

Current club : Lucerne

Number : 10

Youth career :

1984–1994 Concordia Basel

Senior career :

1995–1997 FC Basel

1997 Grasshopper-Club Zürich

1998 FC St. Gallen

1999–2000 Grasshopper-Club Zürich

2001–2003 FC Basel

2004 VfB Stuttgart

2005 Galatasaray (loan)

2005–2008 Young Boys

2008–2009 Al-Gharafa

2009– Lucerne

National team :

2000– Switzerland

Background and club career

Yakin was born in Basel, Switzerland to Turkish parents. However, he grew upward in suburban Münchenstein, just outdoors of Basel and approaching the edges of France and Germany. His surname is founded on the Turkish word Yakın (meaning plug, adjacent), however as he is a Swiss resident and civilian, the dub which he employs is Yakin. He originated playing businessman football with hometown club FC Basel. His career was thereafter overshadowed via several trouble regarding his club transfers, as his engagements outdoors Switzerland (Paris Saint-Germain, VfB Stuttgart, and Galatasaray) were not accompanied via luck. In 2005–06, Yakin returned to Switzerland, stringing BSC Young Boys.

In July 2008, Yakin gestured a contracted with Qatar heroes Al-Gharafa, for a wage of circle €2.5 millions per year.

In March 2009, it was reported that Yakin has been training with the Grasshopper-Club Zürich U-21 side, coached via his brother Murat, in a bid to obtain fit. Yakin thereafter gestured a contract on 25 June 2009 in his country Switzerland with FC Lucerne; the contract runs through to thirty June 2011.

International career

Yakin has been capped 74 times for Switzerland, the first emanating in 2000. He was presented Turkish nationality ago being paged upward to the Swiss squad, but turned it down for physical reasons. He has played in UEFA Euro 2004, UEFA Euro 2008, and both the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup with his country.

On 11 June 2008, Yakin scored the opportunity target in the 32nd tiny of Switzerland's second Euro 2008 Group A suit against Turkey, paying them a 1–0 lead. However, he missed another chance soon afterward as Turkey scored pair second-half targets, resulting in Switzerland becoming the first team to be mathematically eliminated from their possess tournament within five days of its beginning. However, in Switzerland's final team suit against Portugal on 15 June, Yakin additional pair second-half targets, the second a punishment kick, to lock their first ever win at the UEFA European Championship, 2–0. Yakin done the tournament as joint-second highest goalscorer with Lukas Podolski, Roman Pavlyuchenko, and Semih Şentürk with three targets each, behind David Villa's four goals.

Under fresh national team bus, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Yakin participated in seven of Switzerland's ten qualifying suits for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, beginning double, and earning five substitute arrivals, scoring one target in Switzerland's opportunity qualifier against Israel.