Anıl Aydın (born 10 January 2000) is a German-Turkish professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as an

attacking 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

1. FC Kaiserslautern 1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V., also known as 1. FCK, FCK (), FC Kaiserslautern () or colloquially Lautern (), is a German sports club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to football, the club also operates in sev ...

Career

Aydın played for the youth teams of VfL Leverkusen,

Bayer Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, t ...

Viktoria Köln Viktoria usually refers to Viktoria, a name which is the same as Victoria (name), but may also refer to: Places * FK Viktoria Stadion, stadium of Viktoria Žižkov * Viktoria-Luise-Platz, building in Berlin * Viktoriastadt, now known as Victori ...

and 1. FC Köln, before joining

in 2019, beginning with the second team. He made his professional debut for Kaiserslautern's senior team in the

3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for th ...

on 9 January 2021, starting in the home match against former club Viktoria Köln. He was substituted out in the 65th minute for Hendrick Zuck, with the match finishing as a 0–0 draw.

Personal life

Aydın's older brother,

Okan Aydın Okan Aydın (, born 8 May 1994) is a professional Association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for Hungarian club Debreceni VSC, Debrecen. Born in Germany, he is a former youth international for Turkey. ...

, is also a professional footballer.

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* * * 2000 births Living people Footballers from Aachen German men's footballers Turkish men's footballers German sportspeople of Turkish descent Men's association football midfielders 1. FC Kaiserslautern II players 1. FC Kaiserslautern players 3. Liga players {{Germany-footy-midfielder-2000s-stub