Yasin Karaca (born 16 December 1983) is a Turkish former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who played as a midfielder.

Career

Karaca was born in Paal,

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to ethnic

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parents originally from

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, Turkey. He can play as an

attacking midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. 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 ...

or as a striker. Karaca spent the second half of the 2007–08 season on loan at Yeni Kırşehirspor in

TFF Second League TFF 2. Lig (Turkish Football Federation Second League), is the third level in the Turkish football league system. It was founded in the 2001–02 season with the name of ''Turkish Second League Category B'' as a continuation of the then second lev ...

. He also spent a few weeks on trial with

Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...

during the winter break of 2002–03 season. Karaca is a product of the Anderlecht youth system. However, he could never make it to the big scene so far although he was capped several times for Turkish national football team at youth levels. In early August 2011, Karaca has been on trial at newly promoted

Serbian SuperLiga The Serbian Super League ( sr, Супер лига Србије / Super liga Srbije), referred to as the Mozzart Bet Super League ( sr, Моцарт Бет Супер лига / Mozzart Bet Super liga) for sponsorship reasons, is a Serbian profes ...

club

FK Novi Pazar Fudbalski klub Novi Pazar () is a professional football club from Novi Pazar, Serbia. The club was formed in 1928 as FK Deževa. FK Novi Pazar compete in the Serbian SuperLiga and play their home games at the 12,000 capacity Novi Pazar City Stad ...

.Jagodina tvrd orah, turčin među pazarcima
at sportklik.rs After a small period in Luxemburg First Division sides

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and

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he came back to Belgian 4th Division side R. Olympic Charleroi at mid-season 2012-2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karaca, Yasin 1983 births Living people Belgian footballers Belgian people of Turkish descent Turkish footballers Turkish people of Azerbaijani descent Akçaabat Sebatspor footballers Sivasspor footballers De Graafschap players R.S.C. Anderlecht players K.V.C. Westerlo players Ethnikos Asteras F.C. players Turkey youth international footballers Turkey under-21 international footballers K. Beringen F.C. players People from Beringen, Belgium Association football forwards Association football midfielders Footballers from Limburg (Belgium) Süper Lig players TFF First League players