![]() Sucuoğlu playing for
Turkey in April 2018. | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu | ||
Date of birth | 8 June 1998 | ||
Place of birth | Troisdorf, Germany | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | SV Menden 1912 | ||
Youth career | |||
2011–2013 | SV Menden 1912 | ||
2013–2015 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
SV Menden 1912 | |||
International career‡ | |||
2013 | Turkey U17 | 6 | (0) |
2018 | Turkey | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 March 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 April 2018 |
Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu (born 8 June 1998) is a women's footballer who plays in the German Frauen-Regionalliga-West for SV Menden 1912, as a midfielder.
Born in Germany, she played for the Turkey girls' under-17 team, and is currently a member of the senior Turkish national team.
Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu was born to Şeref, a Turkish immigrant father, and Susanne, a German mother, in Troisdorf, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on 8 June 1998. [1] She has a younger brother, Timur, who also plays football. [2]
Sucuoğlu attended realschule in Heimbach for her secondary education. She was successful in maths and sports at school, and planned a career in sport psychology. [2]
Sucuoğlu holds Turkish-German dual citizenship through her Turkish father and German mother. [2]
Sucuoğlu began playing football at the age of five inspired by her father, who was the coach of the under-10 team SF Troisdorf. [2] She played with boys in the team. [2] Her father went on to coach the junior teams of IKV Eitorf 1984, [3] and SV Umutspor Troisdorf. [4] He supported Dilara Özlem continuing to play football. [2]
Between 2011 and 2013, Sucuoğlu played in the B-Juniors Mittelrheinliga for the U-17 team of SV Menden 1912 in Sankt Augustin, although she belonged to the C-Juniors division due to her age. [2] She was capped 16 times and scored two goals for them. [5] [6] In 2013, she transferred to the U-17 team of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. She played in 29 matches and scored a goal in the Women's Under 17 Bundesliga West/Southwest (B-Juniorinnen Bundesliga West/Südwest) until 2015. [7] [8]
Currently, she is a member of SV Menden 1912 playing as a midfielder in the Women's Regional League West ( Frauen-Regionalliga-West). [5] [9]
Sucuoğlu was discovered by the Turkish national team during a tournament in Germany. She was admitted to the Turkey girls' U-17 team. She had difficulties communicating with the Turkish officials and players as she could not speak Turkish at all. [2] She debuted on 8 April 2013 for the Turkey U-17 team in the match against France during the International Women's Under-17 Tournament in Madrid. She was capped for six games in the U-17s. [1] [2]
In November 2017, Sucuoğlu was named to the Turkey women's team. [10] However, she did not appear in the friendly match played against Jordan. [1] On 7 April 2018 Sucuoğlu made her first appearance for the national team in the friendly match against the Estonia women's national football team. [11]