Erman Toroğlu

Erman Toroğlu
Personal information
Full name Erman Refik Toroğlu
Date of birth (1948-11-24) 24 November 1948 (age 76)
Place of birth Ankara, Turkey
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1969 Ankara Güneşspor 51 (11)
1969–1977 MKE Ankaragücü 164 (4)
1977–1978 Mersin İdman Yurdu 14 (1)
Total 229 (16)
International career
1973 Turkey U-21 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Domestic
Years League Role
1984–1993 Süper Lig Referee
International
Years League
1989 FIFA

Erman Refik Toroğlu (born 24 November 1948) is a Turkish former association football player, FIFA-level referee and, current pundit and sports columnist.

Career

Toroğlu earned his FIFA badge in 1989.[1] In 1991, he refereed the qualifying match for Euro 92 between Switzerland and San Marino.[2] The last arbitrated professional football game by Toroğlu was between Samsunspor and Fenerbahçe at Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium in 1993–94 1.Lig season, ended 2–0, on 5 December 1993.[3]

Toroğlu started punditry, joining Turkish sportscaster Şansal Büyüka, in the weekly football review show "Maraton", aired at Show TV, in 1996. The program lasted 8 years until 2004, when the show was moved to Lig TV of Digiturk satellite television provider. Toroğlu quit Maraton in 2010. He now works as a pundit on the sports channel ASpor, covering many games.[4] He had a short punditry spell at TRT in 2015.

Personal life

He married Şükran Toroğlu in 1974. They have two sons. They divorced in 2017.[5] In 2022, he married lawyer Ezgi Yavuz, who is 34 years his junior.[6]

Honours

Ankaragücü

References

  1. ^ "Açıkla Yavuz". 24 September 2003. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  2. ^ "ARBITRE de football : Erman Toroğlu". eu-football.
  3. ^ "Samsunspor Fenerbahçe - Maç Detayları TFF". Turkish Football Federation. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Toroğlu LİG TV'den neden ayrıldı?". Habertürk. 2 February 2010. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  5. ^ Özge Eğrikar (28 November 2017). "Erman Toroğlu eşinden boşandı". Istanbul: Hürriyet. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Erman Toroğlu evlendi". Posta. 2 January 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2022.