Mustafa Güngör

Mustafa Güngör

Full name	Mustafa Güngör
Date of birth	April 14, 1981 (1981-04-14) (age 30)
Place of birth	Aachen, Germany
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	88 kg (13 st 12 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Scrum-half
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	RC Aachen RC Visé SO Millau SC Neuenheim RG Heidelberg TV Pforzheim
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
	Germany	38
correct as of 3 April 2011.
Sevens national teams
Years	Club / team		Comps
	Germany

Mustafa Güngör is a German international rugby union player, playing for the TV Pforzheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. He is the current captain of the German Sevens team, and, in 2009–10, he was also the German XV captain.

Biography

Mustafa Güngör scoring at the 2008 Hannover Sevens

Güngör, born in Aachen of Turkish descent, begun playing rugby when he was nine years old in 1990. By his own admission, he plays rugby because he is not good enough to play Bundesliga football.^[1]

Originating from the youth department of the RC Aachen, he spent some time with the French club SO Millau and the Belgian team RC Visé in 2004.^[2] He then joined RG Heidelberg, playing for the club until 2011. With Heidelberg, he won two German championships, in 2006 and 2007 and made a losing appearance in the 2008 final against SC 1880 Frankfurt. His greatest success as a national team player was the promotion to Division 1 of the European Nations Cup in 2008.

He was part of the German Sevens side at the World Games 2005 in Duisburg, where Germany finished 8th.^[3]

He captained Germany at the 2008 Hannover Sevens event where he came fifth in the point scoring ranking. He has also been selected to play for the Wild Titans, a selection made up partly of players of the Wild Rugby Academy, in an international tournament in Hong Kong in March 2009.^[4] He was part of the German team at the 2009 London Sevens,^[5] and the 2009 Hannover Sevens. He was not selected for the qualifying tournaments of the 2010 European sevens Championship but captained the German team again in 2011, when it won promotion to the 7s Grand Prix Series for 2012.

Güngör became the new captain of Germany's XV on 8 December 2009, after the retirement of the previous captain Jens Schmidt, and played his first game in this position four days later, against Hong Kong.^[6] He was replaced in this position in the second half of 2010 by Alexander Widiker.^[7]

After a lengthy career with RG Heidelberg, Güngör decided to leave the club at the end of the 2010–11 season but has not signed for a new club yet, with TV Pforzheim and SC 1880 Frankfurt being the most likely canidades for his services. Güngör decided to join TV Pforzheim after the opening round of the 2011–12 season.^[8]

With seven and thirteen tries, he was his clubs best try scorer in the 2008–09 and 2010–11 seasons.

Güngör was one of four German rugby players, together with Fabian Heimpel, Raphael Pyrasch and Bastian Himmer, who were promised by the DRV that they could join the Sportkompanie of the Bundeswehr, a special sports unit within the German Army. This was however not the case, with no places available in the unit for male rugby players until 2012. This let to great resentment by the players torwards the DRV and its then-chairman Claus-Peter Bach because all four had turned down other options in favour of the promised place in the Sportkompanie.^[9]

Honours

Club

• German rugby union championship
  • Champions: 2006, 2007
  • Runners up: 2008

• German rugby union cup
  • Runners up: 2006, 2007, 2008

National team

• European Nations Cup – Division 2
  • Champions: 2008

Stats

Mustafa Güngör's personal statistics in club and international rugby:^[10]

Club

Year	Club	Division	Games	Tries	Con	Pen	DG	Place
2007–08	RG Heidelberg	Rugby-Bundesliga	14					2nd — Runners up
2008–09			14	7	1	5	1	5th
2009–10			16	9	0	0	1	2nd — Semi-finals
2010–11			15	13	4	0	2	4th — Semi-finals
2011–12	TV Pforzheim

• As of 25 August 2011

National team

European Nations Cup

Year	Team	Competition	Games	Points	Place
2006–2008	Germany	European Nations Cup Second Division	8	33	Champions
2008–2010	Germany	European Nations Cup First Division	10	6	6th — Relegated
2010–2012	Germany	European Nations Cup Division 1B	5	9	ongoing

Friendlies & other competitions

Year	Team	Competition	Games	Points
2007	Germany	Friendly	1	0
2008			1	0
2009			1	0
2010			1	0

• As of 14 November 2011

References

1. ^ Mustafa Güngör profile at totalrugby.de (German) accessed: 27 January 2009
2. ^ Netherlands 14, Germany 13 in Amsterdam line up rugbyinternational.net, accessed: 27 January 2009
3. ^ Rugby: Fiji assure gold medal in final seconds World Games website, accessed: 27 January 2009
4. ^ W.R.A. website – Wild Titans start their preparation for 2009 Hong Kong 10s accessed: 7 March 2009
5. ^ IRB website: Germany squad, accessed: 28 May 2009
6. ^ Güngör neuer Kapitän der National-XV (German) Rugby-Journal, published: 8 December 2009, accessed: 21 February 2010
7. ^ Widiker: “Für mich zählt nur der Aufstieg” (German) Rugby-Journal, published: 19 November 2010, accessed: 21 November 2010
8. ^ TotalRugby Wechselbörse 2011/2012 (German) totalrugby.de, accessed: 3 September 2011
9. ^ Böses Foul gegen Rugbyspieler (German) Frankfurter Rundschau, accessed: 27 August 2011
10. ^ Mustafa Güngör profile at totalrugby.de (German) accessed: 25 February 2010

External links

• Mustafa Güngör profile at totalrugby.de
• Mustafa Güngör profile at the Hannover Sevens website (German)
• Mustafa Güngör profile at the World Games 2005 website

Persondata
Name	Gungor, Mustafa
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Date of birth	14 April 1981
Place of birth	Aachen, Germany
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