Ahmet Oğuz Çetin (born 15 February 1963) is a Turkish

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and former football player who played as a

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Career

Born in

Adapazarı Adapazarı () is a municipality and the capital Districts of Turkey, district of Sakarya Province, Turkey. Its area is 324 km2, and its population 281,489 (2022). It covers the central and northern part of the agglomeration of Adapazarı and t ...

, Çetin began playing football with the local side

Sakaryaspor Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği is a Turkish professional football club playing in the TFF First League, which is the second level of Turkish football. History The club was formed in 1965 after the merger of ''Adapazarı Gençlerbirliği'', ''Adap ...

. He started to play regularly for Fenerbahçe in 1988. He became one of the franchise players for Fenerbahçe and Turkish football generally. He is well known for his superior ability to organize the midfield and also had a decent vision, passing and shooting skills. He is known as "emperor" by Turkish soccer fans. Mostly walking on the pitch, Oguz Cetin was more of a distributor. Best known for his milimetric passes, he led Fenerbahçe to the championship in 1995–96 season but Fenerbahçe chairman

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released Oğuz Çetin and his fellow striker

Aykut Kocaman Aykut Kocaman (, born 5 April 1965) is a former Turkish footballer, who played as a striker. He is the former manager of İstanbul Başakşehir. Before he made his debut 1980 with the amateur club Kabataş Altınmızrak in Istanbul, Kocaman ...

with the thought they have been destroying the harmony in the team. Çetin played for Istanbulspor and

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after he was released by Fenerbahçe in 1996. He was capped 70 times for the

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. He represented his country at the

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. After his playing career ended, Çetin became assistant manager for Fenerbahçe in 2002. After

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's dismissal, he worked as a manager for Fenerbahçe. However, he failed to manage the team well. He also worked as a manager for Gençlerbirliği and

Diyarbakırspor Diyarbakırspor is a Turkish football club located in the city of Diyarbakır. Formed in 1968, they are nicknamed ''Diyar'' ("Land"). Domestically, Diyarbakırspor have finished runners-up for the 1.Lig (Second Division) in 1976–77, and in ...

. He signed a one-year contract with Azerbaijani football team Khazar Lankaran in June 2014, resigning in the December of the same year.

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* * * * * 1963 births Living people Footballers from Adapazarı Men's association football midfielders Turkish men's footballers Turkey men's international footballers Turkey men's youth international footballers Sakaryaspor footballers Fenerbahçe S.K. footballers İstanbulspor footballers Adanaspor footballers Fenerbahçe S.K. (football) managers UEFA Euro 1996 players Süper Lig players Turkish people of Circassian descent Süper Lig managers Khazar Lankaran FK managers Turkish football managers Turkish expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Azerbaijan Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan 20th-century Turkish sportsmen {{Turkey-footy-midfielder-stub