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Alpay Özalan
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Turkish association football player (born 1973)
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Alpay Özalan is a Turkish politician, association football coach, and former professional player. Born in İzmir in 1973, he played as a defender for clubs including Beşiktaş J.K., 1. FC Köln, Incheon United FC, and Fenerbahçe Istanbul. His competitive career began in 1992 and included participation in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 1996, and UEFA Euro 2000. He has also been employed by Samsunspor FC.
Özalan is a member of the Justice and Development Party. In addition to his sports career, he is an author with works such as "Amerika kıtası'nın gerçek sahipleri kızılderililer." He speaks Turkish and maintains an official website.
Synthesized by Vinony from 40 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Amerika kıtası'nın gerçek sahipleri kızılderililer
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Türkiye
- Active from
- 1935
Discography
- Esterella Del Mar / If1964
- First Kiss / Wheeping River1964
- Norma Mia / Maç Twist1964
- Alpay1967
- Alpay1968
- 7 Dilde Alpay1973
- Alpay (Güven Parkı)1975
- Aşk1978
- 821982
- Sevgilerle1984
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alpay+%C3%96zalan">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Efficacy and safety of an inactivated whole-virion SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (CoronaVac): interim results of a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial in Turkey
· 2021 · cited 779x
- Mutations in the chloride channel gene, CLCNKB, cause Bartter's syndrome type III
· 1997 · cited 722x
- Predictive maintenance system for production lines in manufacturing: A machine learning approach using IoT data in real-time
· 2021 · cited 476x
- Structure of a Hallucinogen-Activated Gq-Coupled 5-HT2A Serotonin Receptor
· 2020 · cited 472x
- Storage of hydrogen in nanostructured carbon materials
· 2009 · cited 434x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 1993
- Turkey Olympic
- 2017
- Samsunspor
- Constituency
- İzmir (II) ( 2018 , 2023 )
- Born
- Fehmi Alpay Özalan , ( 1973-05-30 ) 30 May 1973 (age 53) , İzmir , Turkey
- Party
- Justice and Development Party (2018–present)
- Height
- 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Position
- Association football career Position Centre back
- Years
- Team
- 1991 1992
- Soma Linyitspor
- 1992 1993
- Altay
- 1993 1999
- Beşiktaş
- 1999 2000
- Siirt Jet-Pa Spor
- 2000 2003
- Aston Villa
- 2003 2004
- Incheon United
- 2004 2005
- Urawa Red Diamonds
- 2005 2008
- 1. FC Köln
- 1992 1994
- Turkey U21
- 1995 2005
- Turkey
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- Turkey
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Place of birth
- İzmir
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Employer
- Samsunspor FC
- Political party
- Justice and Development Party
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Native language
- Turkish
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2000
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Incheon United FC
- Position played
- defender
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Turkey
- Official website
- www.alpayozalan.net
- Image
- Alpay.jpg
- Height
- 188
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Alpay Özalan
- date of birth
- 1973-05-29
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- name in native language
- Alpay Özalan
- social media followers
- 409055
- P10632
- Alpay Özalan
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Fehmi Alpay Özalan (born 29 May 1973), known mononymously as Alpay, is a Turkish former professional footballer, football manager and politician. He last worked as the manager of Samsunspor. He played 90 international games for Turkey between 1995 and 2005, making him Turkey's seventh-most capped player of all time. This included performances at two European Championships and the 2002 World Cup, in which he was selected for the Team of the Tournament. Since 2018, he is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) for İzmir.
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