Gökdeniz Karadeniz (born 11 January 1980) is a Turkish former professional
footballer
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who played as a
winger or as an
attacking midfielder
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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 ...
.
Club career
Trabzonspor
Karadeniz played his first professional match for
Trabzonspor
Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Trabzon. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, the men's football team has won seven Süper Lig championships. Trabzonspor also have a women's football team, ...
in the
1999–00 season at the senior level and made ten appearances. He was at first used in defensive roles by his manager, but was gradually given a more and more offensive role in the team until the
2003–04 season when he was given an attacking
midfield
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role. His lightning step and effective understanding with teammate
Fatih Tekke
Fatih Tekke (born 9 September 1977), known by his ''given nickname'' Sultan, is a Turkish football coach and former player who most recently managed Denizlispor.
Club career Turkey
Tekke was born in the small town of Köprübaşı, in the pr ...
enabled him to lead the club in scoring that season with 13 goals.
Rubin Kazan
On 13 March 2008, he signed a five-year deal with the Russian club
Rubin Kazan
FC Rubin Kazan (russian: Футбо́льный клуб Руби́н Каза́нь, ''Futbolny klub Rubin Kazan'' , Tatar: Рубин Казан) is a Russian professional football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the second-tier ...
worth €8.7 million. Karadeniz mentioned that it was sad for him to leave Turkey and also said he chose the club because he felt that if he had joined a big team in Europe his club would not have gotten as much money for him. With the team he won the
Russian Premier League 2008.
On 20 October 2009, Karadeniz scored the winning goal to shock the
Barcelona
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fans at
Camp Nou, winning the match for Rubin Kazan.
On 5 May 2018, Karadeniz announced he will be retiring at the end of the 2017–18 season. His shirt number (61) was
permanently retired by Rubin.
International career
He played his
national team
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The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa ...
debut against
Czech Republic national football team
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on 30 April 2003. He also played 2 times for
Turkey B national football team for
Future Cup matches against
Scotland
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and Germany and 16 times for
Turkey U21. He was called up for the
UEFA Euro 2008
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for Turkey.
Career statistics
International goals
Honours
;Trabzonspor
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Turkish Cup
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: (2):
2002–03,
2003–04
;Rubin Kazan
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Russian Premier League
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: (2):
2008
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,
2009
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Russian Cup:
2011–12
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Russian Super Cup
The Russian Super Cup () is a one-match football annual competition. Its official sponsored name is ''OLIMPBET Russian Supercup'' (). The two participating clubs are the Russian Premier League champions and the Russian Cup winners. If the Premie ...
: (2)
2010,
2012
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Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup (russian: Кубок чемпионов Содружества, Кубок Содружества, Кубок чемпионов содружества стран СНГ и Балтии) is a defunct ann ...
:
2010
*
Marbella Cup: 2012
;Turkey
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FIFA Confederations Cup: 3rd place (1):
2003
*
UEFA European Championship
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: 3rd place (1):
2008
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References
External links
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Profile on TFF.org
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1980 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Giresun
Turkish footballers
Turkey international footballers
Turkey B international footballers
Turkey youth international footballers
Turkey under-21 international footballers
Turkish expatriate footballers
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Süper Lig players
Trabzonspor footballers
FC Rubin Kazan players
2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
UEFA Euro 2008 players
Russian Premier League players
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Association football midfielders