Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu

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

Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu
Sucuoğlu playing for Turkey in April 2018.
Personal information
Full name Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu
Date of birth (1998-06-08) June 8, 1998
Place of birth Troisdorf, Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Club 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
National team‡
2013 Turkey U17 6 (0)
2018– Turkey 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 24, 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of April 7, 2018
Diara Özlem Sucuoğlu challenging the goalkeeper of Estonia women's national team

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 June 8, 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 April 8, 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 April 7, 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. "Oyuncular – Futbolcular: Diara Özlem Sucuoğlu" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  2. "Dilara Sucuoglu Sprung ins Nationalteam". Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (in German). 2013-05-08. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  3. "Sucuoglu betreut ein "Problemkind"". General-Anzeiger (in German). 2005-08-23. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  4. Jordan, Thorsten (2007-07-30). "Ansprüche aus dem Niemandsland". Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (in German). Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  5. "Dilara Özlem Sucuoglu" (in German). Soccer Donna. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  6. "B-Juniorinnen: Meppens Gieseke und Kregel treffsicher". Deutscher Fußball-Bund. 2014-09-29. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  7. "Dilara Özlem Sucuoglu". Deutscher Fußball-Bund. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  8. "B-Juniorinnen Bundesliga West/Südwest, 2014/2015, 7. Spieltag". Deutscher Fußball-Bund. 2014-11-08. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  9. "Frauen-Regionalliga-West SV Menden 17/18" (in German). SV Menden 1912 e.V. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  10. "Kadın Milli Futbol Takımı'nın aday kadrosu belli oldu" (in Turkish). EuroSport Futbol. 2017-11-20. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  11. "adın A Milli Takımı, Estonya'yı 3–0 yendi" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
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