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Berkant Göktan (born 12 December 1980) is a
Turkish-German Turks in Germany, also referred to as German Turks and Turkish Germans ( or ''Deutschtürken''; , also known as ''Gurbetçiler'' or ''Almancılar''), are ethnic Turkish people living in Germany. These terms are also used to refer to German-born ...
former
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. He was considered one of the hottest prospects in Germany during the late 1990s.


Club career

Göktan was born in
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.
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called him up to train with Bayern's senior squad when he was 16 years old, while
Ottmar Hitzfeld Ottmar Hitzfeld (; born 12 January 1949) is a German former professional football player and a former manager. He accumulated a total of 18 major titles, mostly in his tenures with Grasshopper Club Zürich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. ...
granted him his professional debut at age 17. He replaced
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in a
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game against
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with 30 minutes left when the score was 2–1 for Manchester. Bayern ended up tying the game. In January 1999, he negotiated a loan deal to
Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, better known as Borussia Mönchengladbach () and colloquially known as just Gladbach, is a professional Association football, football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-W ...
. In September 2006, Göktan joined
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in the Bundesliga and became a star of the team. On 21 October 2008, he was released from his contract after being positively tested for
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consumption. On 21 January 2010, he has signed a one-year contract with
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champions
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who were hoping to qualify for their first ever
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. Göktan was the club's first signing under new coach
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. He left the club without featuring in a single match because of fitness.


Personal life

Göktan is a
Beşiktaş Beşiktaş () is a district and municipality of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 18 km2 and its population is 175,190 (2022). It is located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and ...
fan.


Honours

Bayern Munich *
Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...
: 2000–01 Galatasaray *
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: 2001–02


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goktan, Berkant Living people 1980 births German sportspeople of Turkish descent Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Men's association football forwards German men's footballers Turkish men's footballers FC Bayern Munich footballers FC Bayern Munich II players Borussia Mönchengladbach players Arminia Bielefeld players 1. FC Kaiserslautern players TSV 1860 Munich players Berkant Goktan Beşiktaş J.K. footballers Galatasaray S.K. footballers Footballers from Munich Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Regionalliga players Süper Lig players Expatriate men's footballers in Thailand SV Heimstetten players 21st-century German sportsmen 21st-century Turkish sportsmen