İsmail Demiriz

İsmail Demiriz
Personal information
Full name İsmail Demiriz
Date of birth (1962-04-01) 1 April 1962 (age 62)
Place of birth Turgutlu, Turkey
Position(s) Right-back
Youth career
1979–1981 İzmirspor
1980 →Kocaelispor (loan)
1981–1982 Denizlispor
1982–1983 Göztepe
1983 →İzmirspor (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1984 Gençlerbirliği 34 (0)
1984–1993 Galatasaray 251 (7)
International career‡
1980 Turkey U18 3 (0)
1982–1983 Turkey U21 5 (0)
1983–1988 Turkey 27 (0)
Managerial career
1995–1996 Kasımpaşa
1996–1997 Nişantaşıspor
1998 Karabükspor
1999–2000 Siirtspor
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 April 2018
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 April 2018

İsmail Demiriz (born 1 April 1962) is a Turkish former football player, who played as a right-back, and manager.

In 2019, Demiriz was convicted in Turkey and sentenced to prison for over a half-dozen years for his affiliations with Hizmet, a self-described transnational association based on moral principles and outlawed in Turkey as allegedly an "armed terrorist group."[1]

Professional career

Demiriz spent his whole career in Turkey and is best known for his stint with Galatasaray, for whom he played 251 times and scored seven times.[2] He helped Galatasaray win three Süper Lig titles, and ten other domestic titles. He was briefly a manager after retiring from football.

Other interests

In September 2016, Demiriz was charged with being part of a Gülenist terrorist organization and detained in Istanbul.[3]

Honours

Galatasaray

References

  1. ^ "Turkish court sentences ex-footballer to jail over Gülen movement links". Ahval. 26 March 2019.
  2. ^ Haber7. "İsmail Demiriz kimdir? Aslen nereli ve kaç yaşındadır?". Haber7.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Eski Galatasaraylı futbolcu İsmail Demiriz tutuklandı". 22 September 2016.