Erol Bekir, formerly known as Erol Bekirovski, (born 25 January 1974) is a Turkish-Swedish
football manager and former player of
Turkish origin with roots from
Macedonia.
Playing career
Club
He started out playing for his hometown club
Malmö FF
Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful football club in Sweden in terms of trophies won. Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association ...
in Sweden but spent most of his career playing abroad for clubs like
BSC Young Boys,
FC Lugano
FC Lugano is a Swiss football club based in Lugano. The club was refounded as AC Lugano in 2004 as a result of relegation and the financial situation of FC Lugano, which was founded in 1908. In 2008, the club reverted to its original name, FC Lu ...
,
Reggiana,
FC Thun
Fussballclub Thun 1898 is a Swiss football team from the Bernese Oberland town of Thun. The club plays in the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier of the Swiss football league system, following relegation from the Swiss Super League in the ...
and
SV Waldhof Mannheim.
Managerial career
Upon returning to Sweden he signed with lower division
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal pop ...
club
IF Limhamn Bunkeflo where he also became
player manager
A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. A player-coach may be a head coach or an assistant coach. They may make changes to the sq ...
before retiring as a player and focusing only on the manager part at the end of 2009. In August 2012, IF Limhamn Bunkeflo and Bekir went their separate ways after the club announced that they could not match Bekirs level of ambition.
References
External links
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German career stats- FuPa
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1974 births
Living people
Macedonian people of Turkish descent
Macedonian Turks
Turkish people of Macedonian descent
Swedish people of Turkish descent
Swedish people of Macedonian descent
Association football midfielders
Swedish footballers
Macedonian footballers
Malmö FF players
BSC Young Boys players
FC Lugano players
Reggina 1914 players
FC Thun players
SV Waldhof Mannheim players
IF Limhamn Bunkeflo (men) players
Allsvenskan players
Swiss Super League players
Swiss Challenge League players
Serie C players
Superettan players
2. Bundesliga players
Swedish expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany