Sara Keçeci

Sara Keçeci (born 21 October 1994) is a Turkish-Danish female handballer playing in goalkeeper position. She is a member of the Turkish national team.[1][2][3] She has dual citizenship.[4]

Sara Keçeci
Sara Keçeci at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship qualification.
Personal information
Born (1994-10-21) 21 October 1994
Sønderborg, Denmark
Nationality Danish, Turkish
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Hadsten Håndbold
Number 12
Senior clubs
Years Team
  • 2012–2013
  • 2013–2014
  • 2014–2016
  • 2016– ?
?-
 Holstebro Håndbold
National team 1
Years Team Apps
  • 2011
  • 2014
  • 2014–
3
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 8 October 2015

Early years

Sara was born in Sønderborg, Denmark to Mehmet Keçeci, a Turkish father, who immigrated from Diyarbakır in 1991, and a Danish mother.[4] Her father works in a plant for manufacturing agricultural machinery, and her mother is a primary school teacher. Her father is a former footballer and basketball player, and also serves as an official at a local sports club's football team.[2]

At age five, Sara Keçeci began playing football. When she grew up, her mother drew Sara's interest to handball because she did not want her daughter to play with boys anymore. At age ten, Sara switched over to mainly handball, however continued to play football in her Hørup school team at the same time.[5][6] Inspired while watching a handball match of the Turkey women's national team at a European championship in Denmark, her interest for handball has been strengthened.[2]

Sports career

Club

During her high school years, she played in the Hørup Central School's girls' handball team.[7] Later, Keçeci was with the Danish Women's Handball League teams KIF Vejen in 2012–13 and Vejen EH in 2013–14. After her club went bankrupt, she signed in July 2014 for Silkeborg-Voel KFUM.[1][8][9][10][11]

She was appointed also goalkeeper coach of the youth teams of girls U-14, U-16 and U-18 in her club Silkeborg-Voel for the 2015–16 season.[12]

National team

She was admitted to Turkey girls' U-17 team debuting Handball at the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Trabzon, Turkey.[2][4]

Sara Keçeci became a member of the Turkey team and took part at the qualifications round matches of 2014 European Championship, 2015 World Championship and 2016 European Championship.[11][13][14][15] On 8 October 2015 she played at the European Championship match for Turkey against the Danish women in her homeland Denmark.[11][16][17]

See also

References
  1. "Sara kececi (Turkey)". Handball 123. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  2. "Ülkemin formasını giymek bana onur veriyor". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2011-08-23. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  3. "Sara Kececi". Scoresway. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  4. Eilertsen, Jens (2011-08-02). "Høruphav-pige spiller for tyrkisk landshold". Dinby (in Danish). Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  5. "Kruså Skole Pigehold 2009". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  6. Skov Thorsted, Karin (2009-11-04). "Hørup Centralskoles pigehold skal spille om finaleplads i Parken i Ekstrabladets Skolefodbold". Jydske Vestkysten (in Danish). Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  7. Stoffer, Anders & Henrik Schou (2010-04-08). "Saras sidste krampetrækninger". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). Retrieved 2015-10-10.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  8. "Sara Kececi og det tyrkiske landshold glippede vm-kvalifikationen" (in Danish). Silkeborg-Voel KFUM. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  9. "Sara Kececi er altid klar til at træde ind på banen" (in Danish). Silkeborg-Voel KFUM. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  10. Rasmussen, Jens (2014-07-12). "Silkeborg-Voel henter tyrkisk landsholds-målmand". Midtjyllands Avis (in Danish). Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  11. Lisby, Mass (2015-10-08). "Klavs Bruun får debutsejr mod Tyrkiet". Sporten TV2 (in Danish). Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  12. "Sara Kececi ny målvogtertræner i Silkeborg-Voel Elite" (in Danish). Silkeborg-Voel KFUM. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  13. "Milliler boğalara yenildi". Sözcü (in Turkish). 2014-06-11. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  14. "2015 Women's World Championship Turkey vs Austria". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  15. "Hentbolda havlu attık". NTV Spor (in Turkish). 2014-12-06. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  16. "Sara Kececi: Fedt trods nederlaget". Europa Mester (in Danish). 2015-09-12. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  17. Stenfeldt, Esben (2015-09-22). "Voel-målvogter udtaget mod Danmark". Silkeborg Nyt (in Danish). Retrieved 2015-10-10.
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