Filiz Koç (born 6 October 1986), aka Filiz Heilmann or Filiz Heilmann Koç, is a

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, currently playing in the Turkish Women's First League for

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with jersey number 13. She is a member of the Turkey women's team. She also has a media career as model, beauty pageant contestant, actress and sideline reporter.

Early life

Filiz Koç was born to a Turkish father and a German mother in

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, Turkey on 6 October 1986. Her father, Savaş Koç, played football for the Turkish

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-team

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between 1986 and 1990. Her national-footballer father met his later wife during a football match in

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. The couple married in Turkey, but moved to Germany when Filiz was three years old. where her father continued his football career playing for the

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team

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. At age 16, she was naturalized in Germany, holding now

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. Filiz Koç completed her education in a private school to become an instructor for sports and fitness. In her early years, she preferred to be called after her mother's family name "Heilmann" hoping so to have more opportunities. Later on, however, she began using her father's surname "Koç".

Sports career

Inspired by her father's sports profession, Filiz Koç developed a passion for football in her childhood at home. Already at age ten, she decided to become a footballer.

Club

She began football playing in 1997 at age eleven, entering the German club

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based near

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. The next season, she moved to Mellendorfer TV, and enjoyed in 2008 her team's promotion to the Group North of 2nd Women's Bundesliga (german: 2. Frauen-Bundesliga Nord). In 2009, she transferred to another 2nd-League-team

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, where she briefly played. In the 2011–12 season, she rejoined her first team TSV Havelse in the Women's Regional League North (german: Fußball-Regionalliga Nord Frauen). The next season, she resigned from professional football, and was loaned out to SC Wedemark, which competed in the Landesliga (State League) until the team fell apart at the end of the 2014–15 season. She was taken over by TSV Limmer, and played in the Regionalliga one season. In September 2015, she moved in a loan-out contract to the Turkish club

, which had finished the 2014–15 season in the Turkish Women's Second League as champion, and was so promoted to the Women"s First League. The release approval of her former club TSV Limmer for her to play in Turkey was set to run out at the end of the 2015–16 season, end of March 2016. At age 20, she suffered a

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during a

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game, and had to undergo a corrective surgery later on.

International

In 2002 at age 16, Filiz Koç was called up to the Turkey girls' under-17 team. She played three games before she had to stay away from the pitch due to a severe muscle injury. In 2009, she appeared in two matches of the Turkey women's team. She was called up again in 2015, and played in the friendly match against

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on 19 August 2015. Koç took part at the

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game against

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on 21 October the same year.

Career statistics

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In media

Filiz Koç acts as a model, and appears in advertisings. At age 18, she participated at the local beauty pageant "Miss Hannover" upon her mother's request, and placed second. Representing Turkey, she became runner-up "Miss EM" (EM is the German language abbreviation for European Championship) among 16 contestants ranking after Domenica Huzvarova from the Czech Republic at a beauty pageant held at

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, Germany on the occasion of the

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. Filiz Koç took part in 2010 at the

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'' Die perfekte Minute'' broadcast by

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, and won a money prize of 75,000 by exhibiting her

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art. In June 2011, Filiz Koç performed the role of "Fadime Gülüc", a murdered fictional German woman footballer of Turkish descent in the episode ''Im Abseits'' ('' In Offside'') of

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television series ''

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'' aired by the ARD channel. She worked as a

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for the 2. Bundesliga matches beginning with the 2011–12 football season. Filiz Koç appeared in the German

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shows '' Die Model WG'' and ''Das Model und der Freak'' aired by the German commercial TV channel

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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Koc, Filiz Living people 1986 births Footballers from Ankara Turkish people of German descent German women's footballers Turkish women's footballers Women's association football midfielders German female models German actresses German beauty pageant winners Turkish beauty pageant winners Women sports announcers 1207 Antalya Spor players Turkey women's international footballers