Hakan Arıkan (born 17 August 1982) is a Turkish former

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who played as a

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Club career

Raising to fame

Arıkan had begun his career at Petkimspor, an amateur team based in western Turkish city of

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. He then joined

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in 2001. During his time with Kocaeli, he played both for senior and youth teams for almost three seasons until he began to play regularly as the number one keeper. Arıkan joined

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in 2006. He was called up to the Turkey national team, for his first time, during a friendly game, after he had shown an impressive performance for Ankaraspor, by saving two penalties in a 1–1 draw against

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on the very first match day in 2006/07 Season.Günün Adamı Hakan Arıkan (Hakan is man of the day)
Arıkan finished that season off with conceding 27 goals in 26 matches.

Beşiktaş era

He joined Beşiktaş in exchange with keeper Ramazan Kurşunlu plus 0.7 million Euros. He has played alternately with

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in 2007/08 Season.After a couple of years of being

's under study he finally became a regular for his team in the 2010-11 season along with Cenk Gönen making important saves several times including a back to back save in the same second against

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International career

Arıkan was initially called up for the national team before the match against

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in February 2007. He made his debut on 5 June 2007 against

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, in a game dedicated to

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's last cap for national team. He could not find a place in

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selection.

References

Hakan Arıkan ile yollar ayrıldı
fanatik.com.tr, 30 November 2015

12 January 2016

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