Hakan Balta

Football player infobox
playername = Hakan Kadir Balta


fullname = Hakan Kadir Balta
height = height|m=1.84
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1983|3|23
cityofbirth = Berlin
countryofbirth = Germany
currentclub = Galatasaray
clubnumber = 22
position = Left-back
youthyears = 2000–2003
youthclubs = Hertha Berlin II
years = 2003–2007
2007–
clubs = Manisaspor
Galatasaray
caps(goals) = 69 (11)
35 (4)
nationalyears = 2007–
nationalteam = Turkey
nationalcaps(goals) = 014 0(1)
pcupdate =
ntupdate = 22:57, 14 September 2008 (CET)

Hakan Kadir Balta (born March 23, 1983 in Berlin, Germany) is a German-born Turkish football player who plays as a defender for Galatasaray.

He formerly played for Hertha Berlin II and Manisaspor before moving to Galatasaray in September 2007. As part of the transfer deal Galatasaray exchanged Ferhat Öztorun and loaned Aydın Yılmaz, and Anıl Karaer. He has recently been called up to the Euro 2008 qualifiers against Norway and Bosnia-Herzegovia. He currently has 13 caps for the national team. In the last game of the season he scored an amazing goal from distance that secured the title for Galatasaray and he won Turkcell Super League 2007-08 with Galatasaray.

Since Hakan has been called up to the squad has given a better structure to the defence along with Fenerbahçe's Gokhan Gonul. With both these players it has allowed Turkey to attack more from defence resulting in them being very dangerous going foward.

Honours

* Galatasaray
** Turkish League: 1 (2007-08)
** Turkish Super Cup: 1 (2008)

Turkey Goals

External links

* [http://www.galatasaray.org/futboltakimi/pages/oyuncu_17.php Profile at galatasaray.org]
* [http://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=30&kisiId=30028 Profile at TFF.org]
* [http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/spieler/29494/hakanbalta/profil.html Profile at transfermarkt.de]