Aylin Yaren (born 30 August 1989 in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
, Germany) is a
Turkish-German
Turks in Germany, also referred to as German Turks and Turkish Germans (german: Türken in Deutschland/Deutschtürken; tr, Almanya'da yaşayan Türkler/Almanya Türkleri), are ethnic Turkish people living in Germany. These terms are also used t ...
female
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 ...
, who currently plays for
Türkiyemspor Berlin
Türkiyemspor Berlin is a Turkish association football club from Berlin. The club began in 1978 as a loose association of young footballers playing recreationally as ''Kreuzberg Gençler Birliği'' (Kreuzberg Youth Union), named after the Berl ...
in Germany.
Early life
Yaren was born in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
,
and grew up in
Wedding
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and
Reinickendorf
Reinickendorf () is the twelfth borough of Berlin. It encompasses the northwest of the city area, including the Berlin Tegel Airport, Lake Tegel, spacious settlements of detached houses as well as housing estates like Märkisches Viertel.
Subdivi ...
.
Her first football club was
BFC Meteor 06
BFC Meteor 06 is a German association football club from the city of Berlin. Established 1 June 1906, the team appeared intermittently in first division play in the 1920s and early 1930s and was a second tier fixture throughout the 1950s.Grüne ...
. At school, she completed the
Realschulabschluss
The Mittlere Reife (, lit. ''"Middle Maturity"'') is a School leaving qualification, school-leaving certificate in Germany that is usually awarded after ten years of schooling. It is roughly comparable with the British GCSE.
The official name var ...
.
Playing career
Club
Aylin played in 2009 at the Swedish
Damallsvenskan
The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...
for
LdB Malmö before she returned to Germany to join
TeBe Berlin
Tennis Borussia Berlin is a Football in Germany, German football club based in the Boroughs and neighborhoods of Berlin, locality of Westend (Berlin), Westend in Berlin.
History
The team was founded in 1902 as ''Berliner Tennis- und Ping-Pong ...
.
She transferred from
1. FC Lübars
1. FC Lübars is a German sport club from Lübars. The club was founded 1962 and competes in Association football, football. The club is most known for its women's football section. The mens team currently competes in the Bezirksliga, Bezirksliga ...
to
Hamburger SV
Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three ...
at the beginning of 2012, and scored the opening goal in her debut against
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
1. Frauenfußballclub Turbine Potsdam 71 e. V., commonly known as 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (or Turbine Potsdam outside of Germany), is a German women's football club located in Potsdam, Brandenburg. They are one of the most successful women's footb ...
.
In February 2016, Yaren moved to Turkey to play for
Trabzon İdmanocağı
İdmanocağı or İdman Ocağı is a Turkish sports club based in Trabzon, Turkey. The club had a strong rivalry with another club, İdmangücü, which matched the The Intercontinental Derby, Istanbul derby between Fenerbahçe S.K., Fenerbahçe a ...
in the
Turkish First League.
In the 2016–17 season, she returned home, and joined DSC Arminia Bielefeld to play in the
2. Bundesliga Nord.
After sustaining an injury, she had to take a break upon advise of her physician.
International
Yaren made her debut for the
Turkey women's national football team
The Turkey women's national football team represents Turkey in international women's football. The team was established in 1995, and compete in the qualification for UEFA Women's Championship and the UEFA qualifying of FIFA Women's World Cu ...
in a friendly match against
Macedonia on 22 January 2006.
She played in the
Germany youth national and
Turkey U-17 national,
Turkey U-19 national teams.
In media and freestyle football shows
In 2007, she took part in the television show "Torwandschießen" (literally: goal wall shooting) of the German channel
ZDF
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...
, where she won a type of
penalty shootout
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pen ...
with 4–3 against
FC Bayern Munich
Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which play ...
's newly transferred French footballer
Frank Ribery.
Aylin Yaren is practicing
freestyle football
Freestyle football is the art of juggling a football using any part of the body, excluding the elbows to the hands. It combines football tricks, dance, acrobatics and music to entertain onlookers and compete with opponents. The official governin ...
by performing the art of self-expression with a football and exhibiting various tricks with her body.
She learnt the art from videos on the internet, and she is training three to four hours a day.
She participated from 2010 to 2012 as contestant at episodes of the Turkey's ''
Got Talent
''Got Talent'' is a British talent show TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCOtv company. It has spawned spin-offs in over 69 countries, in what is now referred to as the 'Got Talent' format, similar to that described by Fremantle ...
'' television show ''
Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye
''Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye'' is the local version of ''Got Talent'', published in Turkey.
Finalists Season 1
* Ali Ozan Bayram (Champion)
* Yusuf Ayata
* Alican Aslan (english)
* Hakan AkdoÄŸan
* Bilal Göregen
* Hüsnü Mirza Turan
* Emre ...
'' demonstrating her art of freestyle football.
In 2019, she participated at the German TV talent show ''
Das Supertalent
''Das Supertalent'' (''Germany's Got Talent'', ''Got Talent Germany)'' is a German talent show, part of the internationally successful ''Got Talent franchise'', presented by Lola Weippert and Chris Tall. Just like in all other versions of the f ...
'' showing her football skills there.
Yaren was one of the two players, the other being
Julia Simic
Julia Simic (born 14 May 1989) is a German retired women's Association football, footballer. She has also played for several of Germany's youth teams as well as two games with the senior national team.
Career
Simic was born on 14 May 1989 in FÃ ...
, who gave freestyle football performances in the roadshow for the
2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
The 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 5th edition of the tournament. It was held in Germany, who will also host the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup a year later from 13 July to 1 August 2010. Sixteen teams, comprising representatives from all ...
.
At the actions during the
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the even ...
held in Germany, she was invited to perform freestyle football shows again.
In 2011, she gave between 50 and 60 performances.
[
She appears with her shows also at company events and ]Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...
stadiums in Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
.
In an interview in 2011, she said that she have deliberately not played qualifying games for Turkey for many years in order to keep the possibility open of playing for the German national team. However, she did not receive a nomination by the German national coach. She played her first European Championship qualifying match for Turkey in 2015, whereby she ultimately become long-term bound by the Turkish football association.
See also
* Freestyle football
Freestyle football is the art of juggling a football using any part of the body, excluding the elbows to the hands. It combines football tricks, dance, acrobatics and music to entertain onlookers and compete with opponents. The official governin ...
* World Freestyle Football Association
The World Freestyle Football Association (WFFA) is the international Sport governing body, governing body of Freestyle Football, freestyle football.
Freestyle football is defined as an art and sport, which involves participants creatively jugg ...
References
External links
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Living people
1989 births
German sportspeople of Turkish descent
German women's footballers
Expatriate women's footballers in Germany
Turkish women's footballers
Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Footballers from Berlin
Turkey women's international footballers
FC Rosengård players
Tennis Borussia Berlin players
Hamburger SV (women) players
SC 07 Bad Neuenahr players
1. FC Lübars players
Trabzon İdmanocağı women's players
Freestyle footballers
Turkey's Got Talent contestants
2. Frauen-Bundesliga players
Women's association football midfielders
Damallsvenskan players