Gökhan İnler (born 27 June 1984) is a Swiss professional
footballer
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who plays as a
central 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 ...
for club
Adana Demirspor
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.
İnler began his professional career with
FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...
and later joined
FC Aarau
FC Aarau is a Swiss football club based in Aarau. They play in the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier of Swiss football after being relegated from Swiss Super League.
History
FC Aarau was formed on 26 May 1902 by workers from a local ...
and
FC Zürich
Fussballclub Zürich, commonly abbreviated to FC Zürich or simply FCZ, is a Swiss football club based in Zürich. The club was founded in 1896 and has won the Swiss Super League 13 times and the Swiss Cup 10 times. The most recent titles a ...
, winning the
Swiss Super League
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in both of his seasons with the latter. After four seasons with
Udinese
Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a fo ...
in the Italian
Serie A
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, he joined
Napoli
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
in 2011, where he twice won the
Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
.
İnler played under-21 football for both
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
and
Turkey
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. He made his debut for the
Switzerland senior team in 2006 and has since earned 89 caps, scoring seven goals, making him the nation's fifth-most capped player of all time. He represented the squad at
UEFA Euro 2008
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and two
FIFA World Cup
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s, captaining the Swiss in Brazil in
2014
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.
Club career
Early career
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Born in
Olten
Olten (High Alemannic: ''Oute'') is a town in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and capital of the district of the same name.
Olten's railway station is within 30 minutes of Zürich, Basel, Bern, and Lucerne by train, and is a rail hub o ...
in the
Canton of Solothurn
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Hi ...
, İnler began his career at
FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...
, later
FC Aarau
FC Aarau is a Swiss football club based in Aarau. They play in the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier of Swiss football after being relegated from Swiss Super League.
History
FC Aarau was formed on 26 May 1902 by workers from a local ...
. On 20 March 2005, he made his
Swiss Super League
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debut in a 2–3 home defeat against
Grasshoppers
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Grasshop ...
. In January 2006, he was signed by
FC Zürich
Fussballclub Zürich, commonly abbreviated to FC Zürich or simply FCZ, is a Swiss football club based in Zürich. The club was founded in 1896 and has won the Swiss Super League 13 times and the Swiss Cup 10 times. The most recent titles a ...
and was part of the
2005–06 and
2007–08 Swiss championship-winning teams.
Udinese
2007–08 season
İnler joined
Udinese
Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a fo ...
of the Italian
Serie A
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in July 2007 after the
Udine
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-based club met a buy-out clause in his Zürich contract, joining for an undisclosed fee and signing a five-year contract. He scored his first goal for Udinese in a 2–1 win over
Torino
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, netting in the 52nd minute to make the score 2–0 for Udinese. On 30 March 2008, İnler scored his second Serie A goal, opening the scoring in an eventual 3–1 win over
Fiorentina
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. İnler also set-up striker
Antonio Di Natale
Antonio Di Natale (; born 13 October 1977) is an Italian fotball coach and former professional player who played as a striker.
After being a member of the Empoli youth side since 1994, Di Natale started his professional career with the Empoli ...
for the winning goal later in the match. In İnler's first season in Italy, he started all domestic games for Udinese, scoring two goals and providing two assists.
İnler and Udinese had a very successful season, finishing seventh in Serie A and thus earning a berth in the first round of next season's
UEFA Cup
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.
2008–09 season
On the opening day of the
2008–09 Serie A season, İnler scored the third goal of a 3–1 win over
Palermo
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and provided an assist for one of Antonio Di Natale's two goals. On 18 September, İnler then scored in the first leg of a UEFA Cup qualifying round game away against
Borussia Dortmund
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, a game Udinese won 0–2. Despite then losing the home leg 0–2 courtesy of two goals from
Tamas Hajnal, Udinese progressed after winning 4–3 in penalties, with İnler converting his kick. İnler featured in all four of Udinese's group stage games as they finished first in their group with nine points. In the Round of 16, İnler started both legs against
reigning champions Zenit Saint Petersburg
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, as Udinese won 2–1 on aggregate against the Russians. In the quarterfinal round against
Werder Bremen
Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are be ...
, Udinese lost the first leg 3–1 away from home, but in the second leg, İnler struck early on for the hosts, netting a dipping shot from over 25 yards out.
Diego
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Et ...
equalized for the Germans before
Fabio Quagliarella
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Throughout his career, Quagliarella has played for eight different Italian clubs, winning ...
netted twice before the break to bring the aggregate score to 4–4. Two second-half goals for Bremen, however, meant that the hosts were knocked out at the quarterfinal stage.
İnler's goal against Palermo proved to be his only league goal of the season, but he provided three more assists, including one helper in a stunning 6–2 victory over
Cagliari
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on the final matchday of the season. The win assured that Udinese once again finished seventh in Serie A, this time five points behind
Roma
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for the last European spot.
2009–10 season
Udinese and İnler found the next season much more difficult. The playmaker did not have a successful season following his breakout campaign in the UEFA Cup from the previous year. He failed to score in 33 Serie A appearances and only provided one assist to Antonio Di Natale in a 2–1 loss to eventual champions
Internazionale
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. Udinese only secured their Serie A safety on the penultimate day of the season after a 2–2 draw at Cagliari, which also saw the hosts confirm their Serie A place for the next season. Four days later, İnler scored for
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
in a 1–1 draw against
Italy
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in an international friendly in preparation for the
2010 FIFA World Cup
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, with former teammate Fabio Quagliarella scoring for the reigning world champions.
2010–11 season
İnler and Udinese continued their poor form from the previous year to begin the
2010–11 Serie A campaign, losing four of their first five games,
though fortunes quickly started to turn around for each. Udinese went on a streak of six-straight games without a loss, winning four in a row; in one game, İnler set up
Antonio Floro Flores to level for the hosts against Cagliari, a game ending in a 1–1 draw on 7 November 2010. Following the winter break, İnler grabbed an assist in Udinese's 2–0 win over
Chievo
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It is best known for its football team, A.C. ChievoVerona, which competes in the second ...
on 6 January 2011. In an enthralling game at the
San Siro
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the next Sunday, İnler provided Antonio Di Natale with one of his goals in a 4–4 draw against eventual champions
Milan
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. İnler then scored his first goal of the season in a 3–0 win over
Cesena
Cesena (; rgn, Cisêna) is a city and ''comune'' in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, served by Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine Mountains, about from the Adriatic Sea. The total population is 97,137.
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. The result meant that Udinese had not lost in 2011, a span of eight games, and moved up to sixth in the league table. Udinese drew their next game against
Brescia
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before winning their next four, including a 7–0 thrashing of Palermo away from home. In the 13th and final game of their unbeaten streak, İnler scored against
Catania
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in a 2–0 win. After finally losing, a 2–0 defeat to
Lecce
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, İnler continued his fine run of form, scoring in a 2–1 win over title-chasers
Napoli
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
. Udinese drew with Milan on 22 May, confirming the former's fourth-place finish and Italy's final
UEFA Champions League
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berth with one game remaining in the season.
Napoli
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Because of his good form in Udinese, helping them finish fourth in the
2010–11 Serie A
The 2010–11 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 109th season of top-tier Italian football, the 79th in a round-robin tournament, and the 1st since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B ...
table and securing a Champions League playoff spot, transfer speculation was rife that İnler would be on the move. In May 2011, Udinese agreed a deal with Napoli in a deal for the player worth €13 million. In July, İnler agreed personal terms with Napoli and was unveiled on 11 July, being presented in an unconventional manner, wearing a lion mask to hide his identity and sporting the jersey number 88. He made his Napoli début in their 3–1 away win at Cesena on 10 September. İnler provided an assist for
Federico Fernández in a 3–2 defeat to
Bayern Munich
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in the group stages of the Champions League on 2 November. In the same game, he was involved in a challenge with
Bastian Schweinsteiger
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that resulted in the
German international requiring surgery for a broken collarbone. On 7 December, İnler scored his first goal for both his new club and in the Champions League; he opened the scoring with a left-footed drive in a 0–2 away win over
Villarreal CF
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in the final game of the group stage phase, a win that took Napoli through to the knockout stages of the competition.
In Napoli's Round of 16 tie against
Chelsea
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, İnler scored a long-range drive in the second leg at
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to send the game into extra-time. A late goal from
Branislav Ivanović
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, however, ensured Chelsea progressed to the quarterfinals 5–4 on aggregate. On 25 April 2012, Napoli headed to the
Stadio Via del Mare to face Lecce, where İnler provided both assists for goals by
Marek Hamšík
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After beginning his club career with Slovan Bratislava in 20 ...
and
Edinson Cavani
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, helping Napoli climb to fourth in Serie A standings. Later on in the season, İnler played in the
Coppa Italia Final against ''
Scudetto
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'' winners
Juventus
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, winning his first piece of silverware with the ''Partenopei'' after they defeated league-champions Juve 2–0.
On 3 May 2014, İnler was sent off in Napoli's victory over Fiorentina in the
2014 Coppa Italia Final
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.
Leicester City
On 19 August 2015, İnler joined
Premier League
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club
Leicester City
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on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee—reported to be £3 million—where he received the number 33 jersey. He made his début three days later, replacing
Danny Drinkwater
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for the final ten minutes of a 1–1 draw with
Tottenham Hotspur
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at
King Power Stadium
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. Due to the good performances of Drinkwater and
N'Golo Kanté
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, İnler totalled only seven Leicester appearances by the end of the calendar year. As a result, Inler was not called up to the Switzerland squad for
Euro 2016
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.
Nevertheless, he played the minimum five league games required to be eligible for a
winner's medal when Leicester became
2015–16 Premier League
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champions.
Beşiktaş
On 31 August 2016, İnler signed a two-year deal for
Süper Lig
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club
Beşiktaş
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, and received the number 80 jersey.
İstanbul Başakşehir
In the summer of 2017, after spending one season at Beşiktaş, İnler moved to league rivals
İstanbul Başakşehir
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on a free transfer.
International career
İnler played for the
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and
Turkish national under-21 teams before making his début for the
Swiss senior team. On 2 September 2006, he made his senior international début in a friendly against
Venezuela
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in
Basel
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.
[ İnler played all of Switzerland's matches at ]UEFA Euro 2008
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in which they were eliminated at the group stage on home soil.[
In the absence of regular captain ]Alexander Frei
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He began his career at Basel, going on to various other clubs in Switzerla ...
, on 16 June 2010, İnler captained Switzerland in a 1–0 win against Spain
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in the group stage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
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. Frei returned for the second group game, but İnler was again the captain in the third, a goalless draw with Honduras
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.[
After Frei's retirement in 2011, İnler became the Swiss captain, and played all four matches as they reached the last 16 of the ]2014 FIFA World Cup
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.[ He was left out of the Swiss squad for ]UEFA Euro 2016
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due to his lack of game time at Leicester City during the 2015–16 season.
Style of play
A hard-working, tenacious, and tactically versatile midfielder
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, İnler is capable of aiding his team both defensively and offensively; an intelligent player, he is known both for his stamina and his movements off the ball, although his most prominent trait is his powerful and accurate striking ability from distance with both feet, and also from set pieces, which enables him to contribute to his team's offensive play with goals from midfield. Primarily a ball-winner, İnler is usually deployed as a central
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or defensive midfielder
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, where he is also capable of functioning creatively as a deep-lying playmaker
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in front of the defensive line, due to his vision, passing range, and ability to control the tempo of his team's play; his long passing accuracy allows him to effectively switch the play and create chances for teammates after winning back possession. Due to his height and physical attributes, he is also effective in the air.
Personal life
İnler, born and brought up in Switzerland, has parents of Turkish origin.
Career statistics
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Honours
Zürich
*Swiss Super League
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: 2005–06, 2006–07[
Napoli
*]Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
: 2011–12, 2013–14[
*]Supercoppa Italiana
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: 2014
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[
Leicester City
*]Premier League
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: 2015–16
Beşiktaş J.K.
*Süper Lig
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: 2016–17[
İstanbul Başakşehir
*Süper Lig: 2019–20]
Adana Demirspor
*TFF First League
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: 2020–21
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References
External links
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Gökhan Inler
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Official website
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1984 births
Living people
People from Olten
Swiss men's footballers
Switzerland international footballers
Switzerland youth international footballers
Switzerland under-21 international footballers
Turkish footballers
Turkey youth international footballers
Turkey under-21 international footballers
Swiss people of Turkish descent
Association football midfielders
FC Solothurn players
FC Basel players
FC Aarau players
FC Zürich players
Udinese Calcio players
S.S.C. Napoli players
Leicester City F.C. players
Beşiktaş J.K. footballers
İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. players
Adana Demirspor footballers
Swiss Super League players
Serie A players
Premier League players
Süper Lig players
UEFA Euro 2008 players
Turkish expatriate footballers
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in England
Swiss expatriate footballers
Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Swiss expatriate sportspeople in England
Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
2010 FIFA World Cup players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
Sportspeople from the canton of Solothurn