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Hakan Şükür
Şükür playing for Galatasaray in 2006
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office
12 June 2011  23 June 2015
Constituencyİstanbul (III)
Personal details
Born (1971-09-01) 1 September 1971 (age 54)
Sapanca, Turkey
PartyIndependent (2013–present)
Other political
affiliations
Justice and Development Party (2011–2013)
Spouses
Esra Elbirlik
(m. 1995; div. 1995)
Beyda Sertbaş
(m. 1999)
Children3
Awards
State Medal of Distinguished Service (2002)[1] (later revoked)
Websitewww.hakansukur.com.tr

Association football career
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position Striker
Youth career
Sakaryaspor
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1990 Sakaryaspor 41 (19)
1990–1992 Bursaspor 54 (11)
1992–1995 Galatasaray 90 (54)
1995 Torino 5 (1)
1995–2000 Galatasaray 156 (108)
2000–2002 Inter Milan 24 (5)
2002 Parma 15 (3)
2002–2003 Blackburn Rovers 9 (2)
2003–2008 Galatasaray 146 (55)
Total 540 (258)
International career
1987–1988 Turkey U16 6 (2)
1988–1990 Turkey U18 13 (1)
1990–1993 Turkey U21 16 (5)
1992–2007 Turkey 112 (51)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Turkey
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place1993 Languedoc–Roussillon
FIFA World Cup
Third place2002 Korea/Japan
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hakan Şükür (Albanian: Shykyr; born 1 September 1971) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed the "Bull of the Bosphorus" and Kral (king),[2][3][4][5] he spent the majority of his professional career with Galatasaray, being a three-time Gol Kralı (Goal King, title and award given to the annual top goalscorer of the Süper Lig),[6] representing the club in three different spells and winning a total of 14 major titles.[7][8][9]

Şükür represented Turkey a total of 112 times, scoring 51 goals, making him the nation's top goalscorer[10][11] and 19th in the world at the time of his retirement. One of the most prolific strikers of the modern era, he netted 383 goals throughout his club career as well as the fastest ever in a World Cup, in 2002.[12] He retired from football in 2008.[13]

In the 2011 general elections, he was elected as an Istanbul MP for the Justice and Development Party. He resigned from the party in December 2013, to serve as an independent MP.[14] He has been wanted for arrest in Turkey since August 2016 for being a member of Gülen movement and has lived in exile in the United States since mid 2016.[15] On 14 July 2017, a decree was issued by Erdoğan government stating that all medals awarded to Şükür were to be revoked.[16]

Club career

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Early years

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Born in Sapanca, Sakarya Province, Şükür began his football career with local club Sakaryaspor, making his professional debut shortly after his 17th birthday. His first goal came in a match against Eskişehirspor on 26 February 1989: with the match tied 2–2, he entered the pitch as a substitute and scored the winning goal;[17] he went on to score a further 18 Süper Lig goals in his three-year spell with the club.

In the summer of 1990, Şükür joined fellow first division side Bursaspor. He scored six goals in 27 games in his second season, helping the team to a sixth-place finish,[18] and making his Turkey national team debut shortly after.

Galatasaray – Torino

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Subsequently, Şükür signed for national giants Galatasaray.[17] Nicknamed the Bull of the Bosphorus,[19] he scored 19 goals in thirty matches in his first year with the club, helping it win both the league and cup titles, adding 16 and 19, respectively, in the next two seasons and attracting the attention of Torino. In 1995, he moved to Turin, becoming the second Turkish player to ever play in Serie A, but returned to his country and Galatasaray in the following winter transfer window, after failing to settle and only netting once in the league.

Upon his return to Galatasaray, Şükür regained his scoring form, scoring 16 goals in the league and helping the club to win the cup. The following season, he collected 38 goals in the league, tying him for second-most goals scored in a season with Metin Oktay, one goal behind record holder Tanju Çolak; both players were playing for Galatasaray when they broke the record.[17] Şükür also finished third in the ESM Golden Boot rankings with 57 points, behind Mário Jardel (60) and Ronaldo (68).[20] He won the Gol Kralı award the following two seasons, netting 33 and 18 goals respectively, with the Galatasaray winning the title in all three seasons.[6][21]

In the 1999–2000 season, Şükür's last with Galatasaray in his second stint, the team completed a domestic double for the second year in succession, and added the year's UEFA Cup, becoming the first Turkish side to win a European title; in the 4–1 penalty shootout win against Arsenal, he scored on his attempt, having netted ten times in 17 games during the campaign.[22]

Return to Italy – Blackburn

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Şükür then moved to Italy again, this time to Inter Milan, scoring six goals in 35 official matches. His appearances were limited by the presence of Ronaldo and Christian Vieri in the team's attack[23] and January 2002, after one-and-a-half seasons, he signed with another team in the country, Parma, but was unable to produce again, only finding the net three times. He helped Parma win the Coppa Italia, but only played in the first leg of the final.[24][25]

Having been released, on 9 December 2002, Şükür joined Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League for the remainder of the campaign, signed by former Galatasaray manager Graeme Souness.[23] His spell began with him sustaining a broken leg in training, which ruled him out for two months,[26] after which made his debut for the club on 1 March 2003, replacing the injured Egil Østenstad at half time in a 1–0 home win over Manchester City;[27] he scored twice from nine appearances, both goals coming in a 4–0 defeat of Fulham at Loftus Road on 7 April.[28]

Third spell at Galatasaray

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Şükür in 2008

Şükür returned to Galatasaray on 7 July 2003, after failing to negotiate a new contract with Blackburn.[26] He scored 12 times in 28 league games in his first season and 18 in the following, with the team winning the 2005 Turkish cup during that timeframe. Also, on 3 December 2003, he found the net twice in a 2–0 home defeat of Juventus for the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League;[29] in November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as Turkey's Golden Player by the Turkish Football Federation, as their most outstanding player of the past fifty years.[30]

In the 2005–06 season, Şükür again scored in double digits (ten) as Galatasaray again won the league. After helping the club win a record-tying 17th first division title in 2007–08, netting eleven goals, he decided to retire from the game, aged nearly 37. Subsequently, he often appeared as a television pundit on the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation;[31] during his career, he scored 38 goals in all European competitions.[32]

International career

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Şükür won his first cap for Turkey in a friendly with Luxembourg in March 1992 – his debut being awarded by German manager Sepp Piontek – scoring his first international goal in his next match, against Denmark, and totalling six in his first 11 appearances. He netted seven in qualification for UEFA Euro 1996 and started all of the matches at the finals in England, in which they were eliminated in the group stage without scoring a single goal.

Şükür scored eight times in qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup: half of those in a 6–4 home win over Wales on 20 August 1997,[33] but Turkey did not reach the play-offs. At Euro 2000, he netted twice for the quarter-finalists, in a 2–0 group stage win against co-hosts Belgium.[34][35]

During the 2002 World Cup, held in South Korea and Japan, Şükür scored once for Turkey in seven matches, as the national team finished in third place. On 29 June, he scored the fastest ever goal in a FIFA World Cup and in any major international football tournament, netting against South Korea 10.8 seconds into the third-place play-off, which Turkey went on to win 3–2.[19]

Of his 112 senior appearances, Şükür captained Turkey in thirty. After appearing in some Euro 2008 qualifiers, notably scoring four against Moldova in a 5–0 win in Frankfurt, Germany,[36] he was not selected for the finals, his last game being a 0–1 home loss to Greece at the age of 36 (17 October 2007).[37]

Personal life

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Şükür is of Albanian origin. Both of his parents are immigrants from Yugoslavia, his father being born in Pristina, and his mother in Skopje.[7][8][9][38] His surname is spelled "Shykyr" in Albanian.[39] His first wife, Esra Elbirlik, married him in a ceremony broadcast live on television,[40] initiated by Prime Minister Tansu Çiller and performed by Mayor of Istanbul Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The couple divorced after four months, and Elbirlik and her family died in the 1999 İzmit earthquake. Şükür fathered three children with his second spouse, Beyda.[41] In 2010, the football stadium of Sancaktepe was named after him.[42] In April 2014, his name was removed again.[42]

Politics

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On 18 June 2011, Şükür was elected as a Member of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the 2011 general elections, from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), representing the 2nd electoral district of Istanbul Province.[43]

On 16 December 2013, Şükür, known for his links to the Islamic Gülen movement of the Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen,[14] resigned from his position in protest after the interdiction of the group's "dershane" system, and decided to continue working as an independent MP.[14][44] He subsequently went on to work as a football pundit for Turkish Radio and Television Corporation.[45]

Prosecution and exile

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In February 2016, Şükür was charged with insulting president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Twitter.[46] In August, after the 2016 Turkish coup attempt a warrant was issued for his arrest as he was charged with being a member of the Gülen movement, designated as a terrorist organization in Turkey since May 2016.[47] In an interview published in May 2018 by The New York Times, Şükür stated that he left Turkey in September 2015 and moved to California to be with a friend. He mentioned that after his term as a member of parliament ended in 2015, he faced obstacles in every job he tried to pursue in Turkey, which led him to decide to live in the United States.[48] He then called his wife and asked her to join him with their three children. After obtaining an investor EB-5 visa in the United States, he became a part-owner of a cafe in Palo Alto in 2016.[49] He would later leave this job because "strange people kept coming into the bar".[50] He noted that his long-term plan in the United States was not to run a cafe but to coach at a sports academy, similar to what he had planned to do in Turkey.[51] In November 2019, he revealed in a video on his YouTube channel that he was working as an Uber driver.[52] Germany's Welt am Sonntag, in an interview with Şükür, reported that he had closed his cafe to work as an Uber driver and was also selling books.[53] Additionally, he mentioned that the Turkish government had seized his properties, businesses, and bank accounts in Turkey.[54][50] On 3 April 2023, Şükür announced on his Twitter account that after seven-and-a-half years in the United States, he and his family had received their green cards, which would allow them to reside and work in the US.[citation needed] As of August 2023, Şükür has opened a boys' football school in Palo Alto.[citation needed]

On 1 December 2022, during the broadcast of a World Cup match between Canada and Morocco, by state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), commentator Alper Bakırcıgil commented on Hakim Ziyech's goal in the fourth minute by mentioning Şükür, who scored the fastest goal in World Cup history at 10.8 seconds. He was removed from the broadcast at half-time and fired from his job later that day. News accounts speculated that his firing was due to TRT reacting to the mention of Şükür's name.[55][56]

Career statistics

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Club

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[57][citation needed]
Club Season League Cup[58] Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Sakaryaspor 1987–88 1.Lig 302151
1988–89 1.Lig 115115
1989–90 1.Lig 275275
Total 4110214311
Bursaspor 1990–91 1.Lig 274274
1991–92 1.Lig 277733410
Total 5411736114
Galatasaray 1992–93 1.Lig 301985624726
1993–94 1.Lig 271674904320
1994–95 1.Lig 331971854825
Total 9054221023713571
Torino 1995–96 Serie A 5151
Galatasaray 1995–96 1.Lig 2516723218
1996–97 1.Lig 323834443946
1997–98 1.Lig 343292705034
1998–99 1.Lig 331992764927
1999–2000 1.Lig 32145117105425
Total 15611933153520224152
Inter Milan 2000–01 Serie A 2451091346
Parma 2001–02 Serie A 1530010163
Blackburn Rovers 2002–03 Premier League 920092
Galatasaray 2003–04 Süper Lig 281210963818
2004–05 Süper Lig 3318343522
2005–06 Süper Lig 311042213713
2006–07 Süper Lig 2642061345
2007–08 Süper Lig 281141924114
Total 14655147261018672
Career total 54026079349438709332

International

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Appearances and goals by national team and year[59]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Turkey 199285
199331
199453
199574
1996123
199756
199841
199973
200093
2001106
2002102
200394
200485
200550
200654
200751
Total11251

Honours

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Sakaryaspor

Bursaspor

Galatasaray[61]

Parma

Turkey

Individual

See also

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Further reading

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Bibliography

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  • Sarıçiçek, Hasan (2006). Kral Hakan Şükür: Bir Kral'ın Entrikaları Alt Üst Eden Başarı Öyküsü (in Turkish). Biyografi.net Publications. ISBN 9789750039430.
  • Tuncay, Bülent (2002). Galatasaray Tarihi: Avrupa Zaferleriyle Unutulmaz Yıldızlarıyla (in Turkish). Yapı Kredi Yayınları. ISBN 9750804546.
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