Personal information | |||
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Full name | İsmail Demiriz | ||
Date of birth | 1 April 1962 | ||
Place of birth | Turgutlu, Turkey | ||
Position(s) | Right-back | ||
Youth career | |||
1979–1981 | İzmirspor | ||
1980 | → Kocaelispor (loan) | ||
1981–1982 | Denizlispor | ||
1982–1983 | Göztepe | ||
1983 | → İzmirspor (loan) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1983–1984 | Gençlerbirliği | 34 | (0) |
1984–1993 | Galatasaray | 251 | (7) |
International career‡ | |||
1980 | Turkey U18 | 3 | (0) |
1982–1983 | Turkey U21 | 5 | (0) |
1983–1988 | Turkey | 27 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1995–1996 | Kasımpaşa | ||
1996–1997 | Nişantaşıspor | ||
1998 | Karabükspor | ||
1999–2000 | Siirtspor | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 April 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 April 2018 |
İsmail Demiriz (born 1 April 1962) is a Turkish former football player, who played as a right-back, and manager.
In 2019, Demiriz was convicted in Turkey and sentenced to prison for over a half-dozen years for his affiliations with Hizmet, a self-described transnational association based on moral principles and outlawed in Turkey as allegedly an "armed terrorist group." [1]
Demiriz spent his whole career in Turkey and is best known for his stint with Galatasaray, for whom he played 251 times and scored seven times. [2] He helped Galatasaray win three Süper Lig titles, and ten other domestic titles. He was briefly a manager after retiring from football.
In September 2016, Demiriz was charged with being part of a Gülenist terrorist organization and detained in Istanbul. [3]
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