Ahmed Ildiz ( tr, Ahmed Ildız; born 29 November 1996) is a professional

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who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for Turkish club

Pendikspor Pendikspor is a Turkish sports club based in Pendik, Istanbul. The club's homeground is the ''Pendik Stadium''. The football team is widely known for their upsetting 2-1 victory over Fenerbahçe, in the 3rd round of the Turkish Cup (then Fortis T ...

on loan from

Alanyaspor Alanyaspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club located in the city of Alanya in Antalya Province. Formed in 1948, the club colours are orange and green. Home matches are played at Kırbıyık Holding Stadium. The most recent club man ...

. Born In Austria, he is a youth international for Turkey.

Professional career

Ildiz is a youth product of

Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid Wien (), commonly known as Rapid Vienna, is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, ...

, joining them since the age of 14. On 1 September 2016 he transferred to Kasımpaşa, and Ildiz made his professional debut for them in a 2-1 loss to

Konyaspor Konyaspor Kulübü (, Konya Sports Club) is a Turkish professional football club based in Konya. They are better known as Konyaspor. In 1922 Konyaspor were founded with the name Konya Gençlerbirliği and have played at their current home stadium ...

on 6 November 2016.

International career

Ildiz was born in Austria and is of Turkish descent. He is a youth international for the

Turkey national under-21 football team Turkey's national Under-21 football team ( tr, Ümit Milli Futbol Takımı), also known as Turkey Under-21s or Turkey U-21s, is the Under-21 years of age team of the Turkey national football team. History This team is for Turkish players aged 2 ...

Personal life

Ahmed's brother, Muhammed Ildiz, is also a professional footballer currently playing for

Gaziantepspor Gaziantepspor was a Turkish football club located in the city of Gaziantep. Formed in 1969 and dissolved in 2020, Gaziantepspor were nicknamed the ''Şahinler'' (The Falcons). The club colours were black and red, and they played their home matche ...

in the Süper Lig.

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* * 1996 births Living people Footballers from Vienna Turkish footballers Turkey under-21 international footballers Association football midfielders Austrian footballers Austrian people of Turkish descent Yeni Malatyaspor footballers Kasımpaşa S.K. footballers Alanyaspor footballers Eyüpspor footballers Pendikspor footballers Austrian Regionalliga players Süper Lig players TFF First League players {{turkey-footy-midfielder-stub