Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Profile Nihat Kahveci

Personal information

Full name : Nihat Kahveci
Date of birth : 23 November 1979
Place of birth : Istanbul, Turkey
Height : 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position : Striker, Winger
Current club : Beşiktaş
Number : 8
Youth career
1994–1997 Beşiktaş
Senior career
1997–2002 Beşiktaş
2002–2006 Real Sociedad
2006–2009 Villarreal
2009– Beşiktaş
National team
2000– Turkey

Club career

Beşiktaş

Nihat is a commodity of Beşiktaş's youth system and was explored via Hürser Mustafa Cindir as shortly as Nihat played in Beşiktaş in the 1996–97 season. He stringed the first team at Beşiktaş in the 1997–98 season as shortly as he was just 17, at the time John Benjamin Toshack was the coach.

Real Sociedad

In January 2002, he was transferred to Real Sociedad in Spain via prior Beşiktaş bus John Toshack. While at Real Sociedad, Nihat scored 57 targets in 115 appearances. In the 2002–03 season, Nihat scored 23 targets earning him the league's joint-second highest scorer for the season behind Roy Makaay (29 goals) and tied with Ronaldo.[3] Real Sociedad done 2nd in the league that season, just two points behind Real Madrid. He had a very fruitful attack partnership with Serbian forth Darko Kovačević, such that sports journalist Phil Ball nicknamed the pair "Little and large," in reference to the height difference between them (Nihat's height is 1.75 m and Kovačević's is 1.87 m).
Nihat has also played in the Champions League with Real Sociedad.

Villarreal

On 16 May 2006, Nihat matched to attend Villarreal CF, on a five-year contract, on a Bosman transfer. Due to his injury troubles, he could not produce a lot arrivals in his first season, scored once and merely featured in 9 matches. He seemed to grab upward model in his second season with 18 targets in the league, facilitating his club to ending the season as 2nd in La Liga. However, in the 2008–09 season, due to injuries again, Nihat prepared 19 arrivals equalling 764 minutes of playing time but malfunctioned to score a single goal.

Return to Beşiktaş

On 27 June 2009, Nihat returned to the club he began his career at via signing for Beşiktaş J.K..

International career

Nihat on duty for the Turkey national football team.
Nihat prepared his global debut against Sweden in October 2000.

World Cup 2002

In Group C, Nihat prepared his merely arrival as a 79th tiny substitute for Yıldıray Baştürk against Costa Rica.[8] His merely other arrival was as a substitute in the 1–0 victory across Japan where he displaced, the goalscorer, Ümit Davala.[9] Turkey went on to ending in third position with a 3–2 victory across Guus Hiddink's South Korea.

Euro 2008

In the final suit of Euro 2008 Group A, Nihat scored double in a pivotal suit against the Czech Republic. Both teams were horizontal on points, both having defeated Switzerland and no where to Portugal, with directly the same quantity of targets scored and granted, a win would assure a quarter-finals dot whilst a draw would average penalty-shootouts would be required. The Czechs took a 2–0 lead through a Jan Koller header and a Jaroslav Plašil target and the score waited 2–0 until the 75th tiny, as shortly as Arda Turan scored earning it 2–1. Nihat's first target came in the 87th minute; Hamit Altıntop's traverse was dipped via Petr Čech approving Nihat tap the ball into the net. He scored his second target one tiny later; a bright, curling attack from outdoors the box, facilitating Turkey win the suit 3–2.
Nihat was governed out of Turkey's semi-final with Germany due to a thigh injury, which ultimately needed medicine and prevented him from playing for Villarreal in the early fraction of the 2008–09 season.

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