Esra Sibel Tezkan

Esra Sibel Tezkan (born February 23, 1993) is a Turkish-German female football defender currently playing in the German Women's Regional League of the Middle Rhine for 1. FFC Bergisch Gladbach 2009. She is part of the Turkey women's national football team.

Esra Sibel Tezkan
Esra Sibel Tezkan playing for Turkey women's national (April 2016)
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-02-23) February 23, 1993
Place of birth Bremerhaven, Germany
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Bergisch Gladbach 09
Youth career
2004–2008 Fortuna Köln
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2013 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
2013– Bergisch Gladbach 09
National team‡
2010 Turkey U-17 4 (0)
2010–2012 Turkey U-19 13 (0)
2014 Turkey U-21 1 (0)
2015–2017 Turkey 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 3, 2015
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of April 8, 2017

Family life

Esra Sibel Tezkan was born to a Turkish immigrant father and a German mother in Bremerhaven, Germany on February 23, 1993. She was supported in playing football by her father, a professor of geophysics at the University of Cologne, who is an amateur footballer as well. She has two older brothers, the one being footballer and the other performing athletics.[1]

Playing career

Her father took Esra Sibel to football matches always he was playing. So, she got interested in football at her very early age. She began playing football with boys since no girls were available to play with. At age five, her father registered Esra Sibel to a club, where she had to play again with boys. After six years when she became eleven, she was transferred by the women's side of SC Fortuna Köln in her hometown, where she started to play football among girls. She finds that her time of playing with boys had contributed very positive on her strength.[1]

Club

After playing four years for SC Fortuna Köln, Tezkan moved at age fifteen to Bayer 04 Leverkusen.[1][2][3]

In the 2013–14 season, she signed for 1. FFC Bergisch Gladbach 2009, where she currently plays in the Frauen-Mittelrheinliga (Women's League of the Middle Rhine).[4][5]

International

Tezkan was discovered for the Turkey women's national team by Bilgin Defterli, a Turkish women's footballer, who moved from Turkey to Germany for her professional football career only.[1]

Esra Sibel Tezkan was admitted to the Turkey girls' U-17 team debuting in the International Women's Football Friendship Tournament against Bulgaria on June 27, 2010. She capped four times in total for the Turkey girls' U-17 team.[6]

On September 11, 2010, she appeared first time in the Turkey women's U-19 team playing at the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship First qualifying round – Group 9 match against Romania.[1][3] She took part at the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship Second qualifying round – Group 3, 2011 Kuban Spring Tournament and 2012 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship – Group A matches.[7][8] She capped in thirteen games of the Turkey women's U-19 team.[6]

Tezkan played once for the Turkey women's U-21 team in the friendly match against Belgium on November 26, 2014.[6][9]

On February 26, 2015, she took part at the friendly game of the Turkey women's team against Georgia.[6][10] Tezkan played at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying Group 5 matches for Turkeywomen's national.[11]

References
  1. "Sibel Tezkan: Profesör babanın futbolcu kızı" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  2. "Kader und Spielerstatistik 2010/11" (in German). Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  3. "Women: Bakir and Tezkan successful for Turkey". Bayer 04 Leverkusen. 2010-09-16. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  4. "Persönliche Daten: Sibel Tetzkan" (in German). Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  5. "1. Mannschaft: Kader 1. Mannschaft – Saison 2014/2015 Mittelrheinliga" (in German). 1. FFC Bergisch Gladbach 2009. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  6. "Player Details – Esra Sibel Tezkan". Turkish Football Federation. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  7. "Kadın Millilerimiz Portekiz'le yenişemedi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  8. "Gol sesi çıkmadı". İhlas News Agency (in Turkish). 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  9. "Kadın millilerin Belçika sınavı". Türkiye Gazetesi (in Turkish). 2014-11-17. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  10. "Türkiye gol oldu yağdı". AMK Spor (in Turkish). 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  11. "Türkiye: 0 – Almanya: 6". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2016-04-08. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
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