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Hakan Balta
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Turkish association football player (born 1983)
OverviewAI-generated
Hakan Balta is a Turkish association football player who has retired from professional soccer. Born in Berlin on March 23, 1983, he holds Turkish citizenship and speaks Turkish as his native language. Standing 184 centimeters tall, he played as a centre-back and full-back, wearing the number 22 jersey. His professional career began in 2005.
Balta represented the Turkey men's national football team and participated in UEFA Euro 2008 and UEFA Euro 2016. During his club career, he was a member of Manisaspor and Galatasaray S.K. He is listed as a person in various databases, with his name appearing in native script as Hakan Balta.
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 27
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Comparison of Balloon-Expandable-Stent Implantation with Balloon Angioplasty in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
· 1994 · cited 3,554x
- Pembrolizumab alone or with chemotherapy versus cetuximab with chemotherapy for recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (KEYNOTE-048): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 study
· 2019 · cited 2,931x
- Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing
· 2019 · cited 2,861x
- Pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy for previously untreated, PD-L1-expressing, locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (KEYNOTE-042): a randomised, open-label, controlled, phase 3 trial
· 2019 · cited 2,837x
- Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,431x
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Key facts
- 2025
- Turkey (assistant)
- Full name
- Hakan Kadir Balta
- Date of birth
- ( 1983-03-23 ) 23 March 1983 (age 43)
- Place of birth
- Berlin , West Germany
- Height
- 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Positions
- Centre back left back
- 2000 2003
- Hertha BSC II
- Years
- Team
- 2003 2007
- Manisaspor
- 2007 2018
- Galatasaray
- 2006 2016
- Turkey
- 2020 2022
- Galatasaray (assistant)
- 2022 2025
- Galatasaray U19
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- Turkey
via TheSportsDB
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Encyclopedic overview
Hakan Kadir Balta ( Turkish pronunciation: [haːkan kadiɾ baɫta]; born 23 March 1983) is a retired Turkish professional footballer who played as a defender for Galatasaray in the Süper Lig. At the start of the 2018/19 season he was released from his contract after over 10 years with the club.
Club career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hakan Balta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.