Feride Bakır (born June 26, 1992) is a

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female

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defender, who played in the German top women's league lately for Bayer 04 Leverkusen until 2013. She was part of the Turkey women's national football team. Bakır was born in

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, Germany on June 26, 1992. In July 2014, she completed an education in sports graduating from the "Elite School of Sports Leverkusen", a vocational boarding school in

Leverkusen Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf. With about 161,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is on ...

consisting of sports classes of the Landrat-Lucas-Gymnasium.

Playing career

Club

In May 2006, she took part as a member of

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at a qualification tournament for girls' under-15 organized by

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(german: Westdeutsche Fußball- und Leichtathletikverband; ''WFLV'') in

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, and played for the selection of

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team. Feride Bakır began her football career at Blau-Weiß Friesdorf. In 2008, she moved to

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. On March 29, 2009, she debuted in the Women's Bundesliga, the top level of the German women's football league system, at the home game against

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. In the 2009–10 season, she was a regular player. In the 2010–11 season, she was transferred by the Bundesliga rival

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. On October 31, 2010, Bakır scored her first goal in the Bundesliga in the match against her former club, bringing her team to an intermediate lead with 1–0 in the match. After playing all the years in the

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position, she became a defender in the 2012–13 season. At the end of the 2012–13 season, she left Bayer 04 Leverkusen. She capped forty times in three seasons and scored three goals, including cups.

International

Feride Bakır was admitted to the Turkey women's U-19 team playing in the 2010 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship Second qualifying round – Group 1 match against Sweden on March 27, 2010. She took part also at the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship First qualifying round – Group 9 matches. She capped six times in total for the Turkey women's U-19 team. Bakır was called up to the

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before she appeared for the Turkey women's U-19 team. She played for the first time at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5 match against

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on November 21, 2009. She participated at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5, and

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matches for Turkey. She capped thirteen times between 2009 and 2011.

Career statistics

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bakir, Feride 1992 births Sportspeople from Bonn German people of Turkish descent German women's footballers SC 07 Bad Neuenahr players Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women) players Turkish women's footballers Turkey women's international footballers Living people Women's association football defenders Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia