Ceylan Arikan (born 25 May 1971) is a Dutch
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
manager and former player who manages
Abdysh-Ata Kant. He played as a
midfielder.
Playing career
Arikan was born in
Adana, Turkey. He started his senior career with
Galatasaray After that, he played for
Sakaryaspor,
Ä°stanbulspor
İstanbulspor is a Turkish football and sports club founded by Istanbul High School students in 1926. In 2004–05 they were relegated from the Turkish Süper Lig (Super League) to TFF 1. Lig. For many decades it was the fourth most famous and ...
,
Kocaelispor,
Mersin Ä°dman Yurdu
Mersin Talim Yurdu, formerly Mersin İdman Yurdu, is a Turkish sports club from Mersin, Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean Region. The team played in the Turkish first division for 15 seasons, and after the 1983–84 season the football team pl ...
, and
VV Heerjansdam
VV Heerjansdam is a football club from Heerjansdam, Netherlands. Heerjansdam is playing in the Saturday Eerste Klasse League since 2017.
Heerjansdam was the Dutch amateur champions of Saturday football in 1989. In 1986 Heerjansdam became champio ...
. In 1994, he signed for
NAC Breda
NAC Breda (), often simply known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Eerste Divi ...
in the Dutch
Eredivisie, where he made three league appearances and scored two goals.
Coaching career
In January 2009, Arikan was appointed manager of
Abdysh-Ata Kant.
References
External links
Column - The Dutch School now also in KyrgyzstanDebutant Ceylan Arikan scored the last time NAC won at PSV and is still proudPSV - NAC in 1995: Turkish one-hit wonder puts Ronaldo in the shade
1971 births
Living people
Dutch people of Turkish descent
Dutch footballers
Association football midfielders
Eredivisie players
Sakaryaspor footballers
Ä°stanbulspor footballers
Kocaelispor footballers
Mersin Ä°dman Yurdu footballers
NAC Breda players
FC Dordrecht players
Dutch football managers
FC Abdysh-Ata Kant managers
Dutch expatriate footballers
Dutch expatriate football managers
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
Expatriate football managers in Kyrgyzstan
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