Arda Turan
b. 1987
Turkish association football player (born 1987)
- Born
- 30 Jan 1987 · Fatih
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 30 Jan 1987BornBorn in Fatih
- 2002TeamTurkey national under-16 football team
- 2003 – 2004TeamTurkey national under-17 football team
- 2003 – 2005TeamTurkey national under-18 football team
- 2004 – 2011TeamGalatasaray S.K.
- 2004 – 2006TeamTurkey national under-19 football team
- 2005TeamTurkey national under-20 football team
- 2006TeamManisaspor
- 2006 – 2017TeamTurkey men's national football team
- 2006TeamTurkey national under-21 football team
- 2011 – 2015TeamAtlético Madrid
- 2015 – 2020TeamFC Barcelona
- 2018 – 2020Teamİstanbul Başakşehir F.K.
- 2020 – 2022TeamGalatasaray S.K.
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1987 – today).
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
- 20062006 FIFA World Cup
- 20082008 Summer Olympics
- 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake
- 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
- 20112011 Norway attacks
- 2011Libyan civil war
- 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
- 20122012 Summer Olympics
- 20142014 FIFA World Cup
- 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2015Paris Agreement
- 20182018 FIFA World Cup
- 2020COVID-19 pandemic
- 20212020 Summer Olympics
- 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2023Gaza war
- 20242024 Summer Olympics
- 20262026 Iran war
Biography
Arda Turan (born 30 January 1987) is a Turkish professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk.
During his playing career, which included six years in the Spanish La Liga with Atlético Madrid and Barcelona, Turan was mostly known for his ball control, dribbling skills and vision. At age 22, prior to the 2009–10 season, he was named captain of Galatasaray.
Following a successful UEFA Euro 2008 campaign, Turan was ranked eighth in a selection of the 100 Best Young Football Players in the World piece published by Spanish magazine Don Balón in July 2008. Turan was ranked 38th in "The 100 Best Footballers in the World" by The Guardian in 2014, the only player on the list to be born in Turkey. On 25 November 2014, Turan was nominated for the UEFA Team of the Year for 2014, among 39 other players.
Turan gained 100 senior national caps and scored 17 goals for the Turkey national team, making him Turkey's sixth-most capped player of all-time.
Text from the Wikipedia article Arda Turan, CC BY-SA 4.0
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