Fatih Tekke

Football player infobox
playername = Fatih Tekke


fullname = Fatih Tekke
nickname = Sultan
height = height|m=1.78
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1977|9|9|df=y
cityofbirth = Sürmene / Trabzon
countryofbirth = Turkey
currentclub = Zenit Saint Petersburg
clubnumber = 9
position = Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1994–1997
1997–1998
1998–2000
2000–2003
2003–2006
2006–"present"
clubs = Trabzonspor
Altay S.K. (loaned)
Trabzonspor
Gaziantepspor
Trabzonspor
Zenit St. Petersburg
caps(goals) = 044 0(5)
024 0(8)
038 0(6)
055 (28)
116 (77)
059 0(16)
nationalyears = 1998–"present"
nationalteam = Turkey
nationalcaps(goals) = 025 0(9)
pcupdate = 15 May, 2008
ntupdate = 11 August, 2007

Fatih Tekke (born September 9, 1977) is a Turkish football player. He is a Turkish international, a striker, and one of the most recognisable and popular sportsmen in Turkey today. Having spent most of his career at Trabzonspor, he recently transferred to Russian team Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Career

Early career

Fatih Tekke was born in the small town of Köprübaşı in the province of Trabzon, he joined Trabzonspor, the local team. Fatih was still in his teens when he started to appear in the first team.

Altay and Gaziantepspor

At the beginning of the 1997/1998 season he was loaned out to Altay SK, of İzmir. In an 5-4 defeat to Galatasaray, he scored a hat-trick. In this period he made his first appearance for the Turkish national team. However a few weeks later he broke his leg and was out of the game for six months. Around 2 years later he transferred to Gaziantepspor, he stated that he would never returnfact|date = August 2008.

Return to Trabzonspor

Upon his return to Trabzonspor, he was given the captains armband. He is also the main striker in the Turkish national team.In Turkey he won two cup winners medals.

Zenit Saint Petersburg

In July 2006, he signed for Zenit Saint Petersburg. On August 6, 2006, Fatih Tekke scored on his debut for Zenit Saint Petersburg, a match where he came off the bench against Shinnik Yaroslavl and scored the only goal of the game for his team to win 1-0. Tekke scored the winning goal in the UEFA Cup group stage in a 3-2 victory over AE Larissa. He assisted to the second and final goal of his team in the 2008 UEFA Cup Final.

Record

His career record in the league in games played, and goals scored is as follows:

He has 25 caps and 9 goals for Turkey.

Honours

*flagicon|RUS FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
**Russian Premier League: 2007
**UEFA Cup: 1 (2008)
** UEFA Super Cup: 1 (2008)

*flagicon|TUR Trabzonspor
**Turkish Cup: 2003, 2004

External links

* [http://www.footballdatabase.com/site/players/index.php?dumpPlayer=6482 Profile at Football Database]

References