Hakan Yakin Explained

Hakan Yakin
Fullname:Hakan Yakin[1]
Birth Date:22 February 1977
Birth Place:Basel, Switzerland
Height:1.80 m
Position:Second striker
Attacking midfielder
Youthyears1:1984–1994
Youthclubs1:Concordia Basel
Years1:1994–1995
Clubs1:Concordia Basel
Years2:1995–1997
Clubs2:Basel
Caps2:67
Goals2:14
Years3:1997–1998
Clubs3:Grasshoppers
Caps3:11
Goals3:1
Years4:1998–1999
Clubs4:St. Gallen (loan)
Caps4:35
Goals4:8
Years5:1999–2001
Clubs5:Grasshoppers
Caps5:54
Goals5:22
Years6:2001–2003
Clubs6:Basel
Caps6:67
Goals6:30
Years7:2003
Clubs7:Paris Saint-Germain
Caps7:0
Goals7:0
Years8:2004
Clubs8:Basel
Caps8:6
Goals8:3
Years9:2004–2005
Clubs9:VfB Stuttgart
Caps9:9
Goals9:0
Years10:2004–2005
Clubs10:Galatasaray (loan)
Caps10:2
Goals10:0
Years11:2005–2008
Clubs11:Young Boys
Caps11:84
Goals11:40
Years12:2008–2009
Clubs12:Al-Gharafa
Caps12:15
Goals12:5
Years13:2009–2011
Clubs13:Luzern
Caps13:79
Goals13:26
Years14:2012–2013
Clubs14:Bellinzona
Caps14:32
Goals14:13
Totalcaps:455
Totalgoals:162
Nationalyears1:2000–2011
Nationalteam1:Switzerland
Nationalcaps1:87
Nationalgoals1:20
Manageryears1:2014–2015
Managerclubs1:Zug 94
Manageryears2:2016
Managerclubs2:Gallen (U18)
Manageryears3:2016
Managerclubs3:Gallen (U21)
Manageryears4:2017
Managerclubs4:Schaffhausen (assistant)
Manageryears5:2017
Managerclubs5:Grasshoppers (assistant)
Manageryears6:2019–2022
Managerclubs6:Schaffhausen (assistant)
Manageryears7:2021
Managerclubs7:Schaffhausen (caretaker)
Manageryears8:2022–2023
Managerclubs8:Schaffhausen
Manageryears9:2023–2024
Managerclubs9:İstanbulspor

Hakan Yakin (Turkish: Hakan Yakın; born 22 February 1977) is a Swiss professional football manager and former player who last coached İstanbulspor in Turkey. Having spent the majority of his playing career as a forward or attacking midfielder, Yakin spent most of his playing career in the domestic league with brief forays into other leagues. He represented Switzerland national team for eleven years, garnering 87 caps and scoring 20 goals.

Early and personal life

Hakan Yakin was born on 22 February 1977 in Basel, Switzerland, to Turkish parents. He grew up and went to school in suburban Münchenstein, Basel-Landschaft, just outside Basel, and close to the borders of France and Germany. He is the younger brother of international football player Murat Yakin, also a former member of the Switzerland national team, who currently works as a manager.[2] His elder half-brother Ertan Irizik is also a former football professional. Yakin's surname is based on the Turkish word Yakın[3] [4] (meaning close, adjacent[5]), however as he is a Swiss resident and citizen, the name which he uses is Yakin.

Club career

As a child, Yakin played in the youth teams of his local side Concordia Basel. He signed his first professional contract with hometown club Basel in January 1995. He played his League debut for Basel on 12 April 1995 in the 1994–95 season in the match against Lausanne. He was brought on in the 60th minute as replacement for Alexandre Rey and with his first touch of the ball, just 18 seconds later, he scored the goal to make it 3 - 0, a header (final score 5 - 0).[6]

After two and a half years in Basel, he transferred to Grasshoppers, with manager Christian Gross, but could not establish himself, making most of his appearances as substitute, and he was loaned to St. Gallen for the second half of the 1997–98 season. He moved immediately into the starting eleven and so the loan was prolonged, before he returned to the Grasshoppers.

During January 2001, he transferred back to Basel. At the end of the 2001–02 season Yakin won the national Double with Basel and a year later won the Swiss Cup again. He recalls the 2002–03 Champions League Group B match on 12 November 2002 against Liverpool in St. Jakob-Park as the "match of his life".[7] The game was drawn 3 - 3 and Yakin gave all three assists as Basel cruised to a 3 - 0 half-time lead as they qualified, one point above Liverpool, for the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League second group stage.[8]

Curiosity during the championship play-off round of their 2002–03 season was, that in the home match in the St. Jakob-Park on 19 April 2003, Yakin had a good game and scored a perfect hat-trick during the first half of the game as Basel won 3–0 against Young Boys.[9] Yakin showed his other side in the return match in the Stadion Neufeld in Bern one week later. As YB went a goal up he lost his temper and kicked the ball away, thus collecting a yellow card. Just ten minutes later he committed a rough foul and collecting a second yellow, thus yellow/red, to be sent-off.[10]

His career was then overshadowed by some trouble regarding his club transfers, as his engagements outside Switzerland (Paris Saint-Germain,[11] [12] VfB Stuttgart,[13] and Galatasaray[14]) were not accompanied by luck. In 2005–06, Yakin returned to Switzerland, joining BSC Young Boys.[15] In July 2008, Yakin signed a contract with Qatar champions Al-Gharafa,[16] for a salary of around €2.5 million per year.

In March 2009, it was reported that Yakin had been training with the Grasshoppers Under-21 side, coached by his brother Murat, in a bid to get fit.[17] Yakin then signed a contract on 25 June 2009 in his homeland Switzerland with FC Luzern, running through to 30 June 2011. In summer 2011 his brother Murat became his manager at FC Luzern.[18]

During the mid-season break in January 2012 Yakin transferred to Bellinzona in the Challenge League, the second tier of Swiss football. He played his team debut on 26 February in the 2 - 0 home win against Stade Nyonnais. He scored his first two goals for the club in the 3 - 2 away win against Aarau on 9 April 2012.

International career

Yakin was capped 87 times for Switzerland, the first coming in 2000. He was offered Turkish nationality before being called up to the Swiss squad, but turned it down for personal reasons. He has played in UEFA Euro 2004, UEFA Euro 2008 and both the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup with his country.

On 11 June 2008, he scored the opening goal in the 32nd minute of Switzerland's second Euro 2008 Group A match against Turkey, giving them a 1–0 lead and he refused to celebrate after the goal, out of respect for his family's birth country. However, he missed another chance shortly afterward as Turkey scored two second-half goals, resulting in Switzerland's becoming the first team to be mathematically eliminated from their own tournament within five days of its beginning.[19] However, in Switzerland's final group match against Portugal on 15 June, Yakin added two second-half goals, the second a penalty kick, to secure their first ever win at the UEFA European Championship, 2–0.[20] Yakin finished the tournament as joint-second highest goalscorer with Lukas Podolski, Roman Pavlyuchenko, and Semih Şentürk with three goals each, behind David Villa's four goals.

Under new national team coach, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Yakin participated in seven of Switzerland's ten qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, starting twice and making five substitute appearances, scoring one goal in Switzerland's opening qualifier against Israel. He announced his retirement from the Switzerland national team on 4 October 2011.[21] [22]

Coaching career

He was hired as an assistant coach to his brother Murat at Schaffhausen in 2019.[23] After Murat was hired as the manager of the Switzerland national football team in August 2021, Hakan served as a caretaker manager for Schaffhausen for 3 games. He returned to being assistant coach for the remainder of the season under Martin Andermatt.[24] Together, they coached Schaffhausen to a second place finish in the 2021–22 Swiss Challenge League, but missed out on promotion in the promotion playoff.

On 4 June 2022, he was confirmed as the new head coach at Schaffhausen, as Andermatt's contract was not renewed.[25] This appointment is contingent on Yakin entering the course to receive his UEFA Pro Licence. As a result, he was briefly removed from the sidelines, but was later confirmed as head coach on 5 September 2022.[26] On 20 May 2023, he departed Schaffhausen, following a 2–0 loss to Aarau.[27] Due to middling results in his first season as head coach, the club had decided not to renew his contract for the coming season. For personal reasons, Yakin stepped down from his post for the last two games of the season.

Career statistics

Club

Club performanceLeagueCupContinental[28] Total
Season Club LeagueApps GoalsApps GoalsApps GoalsApps Goals
SwitzerlandLeagueSchweizer CupContinentalTotal
1994–95BaselSuper League95----95
1995–96346--41387
1996–97243--22265
1997–98GrasshopperSuper League111----111
St. GallenSuper League141----141
1998–99217--10227
GrasshopperSuper League62----62
1999–002910--423312
2000–011910----1910
BaselSuper League114----114
2001–022713--733416
2002–032913211634717
2003–04631041114
GermanyLeagueDFB-PokalContinentalTotal
2003–04VfB StuttgartBundesliga80----80
2004–051020--30
TurkeyLeagueTurkish CupContinentalTotal
2004–05GalatasaraySuper League20----20
SwitzerlandLeagueSchweizer CupContinentalTotal
2005–06Young BoysSuper League2162021257
2006–07311041213712
2007–08322440303924
QatarLeagueCupContinentalTotal
2008–09Al-Gharafa Sports ClubQatar Stars League155----155
SwitzerlandLeagueSchweizer CupContinentalTotal
2009–10FC LuzernSuper League291042--3312
2010–11321230203712
2011–1218421--205
2011–12AC BellinzonaChallenge League146----146
2012–13187----187
TotalSwitzerland4291572154714497176
Germany9020--110
Turkey20----20
Qatar155----155
Career total4551622354714525181

International goals

Scores and results list Switzerland's goal tally first.

Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 19 February 2000 4–1 4–1 Friendly
2. 26 April 2000 1–0 1–1 Friendly
3. 16 August 2000 2–2 2–2 Friendly
4. 15 August 2001 Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna 2–1 2–1 Friendly
5. 1 September 2001 1–0 1–2 2002 World Cup qualifier
6. 12 February 2002 1–1 1–1 Friendly
7. 13 February 2002 2–0 2–1 Friendly
8. 21 August 2002 St. Jakob-Park, Basel 1–1 3–2 Friendly
9. 8 September 2002 St. Jakob-Park, Basel 2–1 4–1 Euro 2004 qualifier
10. 16 October 2002 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 1–0 2–1 Euro 2004 qualifier
11. 12 February 2003 1–0 5–1 Friendly
12. 11 October 2003 St. Jakob-Park, Basel 1–0 2–0 Euro 2004 qualifier
13. 28 April 2004 Stade de Genève, Geneva 2–1 2–1 Friendly
14. 8 September 2004 St. Jakob-Park, Basel 1–1 1–1 2006 World Cup qualifier
15. 13 October 2007 Letzigrund, Zurich 2–1 3–1 Friendly
16. 11 June 2008 St. Jakob-Park, Basel 1–0 1–2 Euro 2008
17.15 June 2008 St. Jakob-Park, Basel 1–0 2–0 Euro 2008
18. 2–0
19. 20 August 2008 Stade de Genève, Geneva 2–0 4–1 Friendly
20. 6 September 2008 1–0 2–2 2010 World Cup qualifier

Managerial

Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamFromToRecord
Schaffhausen (Caretaker)12 August 202131 August 2021
Schaffhausen4 September 202220 May 2023
İstanbulspor16 October 2023present
Total

Honours

Club

Grasshoppers

Basel

Galatasaray

Young Boys

Individual

Notes and references

References:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Switzerland . FIFA . 27 . 21 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190610174527/https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf . 10 June 2019.
  2. News: A family affair in need of high maintenance. The Irish Times. 8 October 2003. 29 July 2019.
  3. Web site: BIN and Offer. https://web.archive.org/web/20120227181427/http://www.tumgazeteler.com/?a=1554967. dead. 27 February 2012. www.tumgazeteler.com.
  4. Web site: Hakan Yakin In Annesi̇ Konuştu: Oğlum Türki̇ye Ye Bi̇r Golden Fazla Atma . 2009-04-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720004201/http://www.habervitrini.com/haber.asp?id=346326 . 20 July 2011 .
  5. Web site: Electronic Dictionary, Electronic Translator, Software for Translation for 45 languages. ECTACO UK.
  6. Web site: 2011 . FCSG Data Hakan Yakin . fcsg-data.ch . 16 November 2011. de.
  7. Book: Widmer . Benedikt . Mugglin . David . Das Spiel meines Lebens . rotweiss Verlag GmbH, Basel . 2011 . 978-3-7245-1785-6. de.
  8. Web site: 2002 . Match report Basel–Liverpool . uefa.com . 12 November 2002.
  9. Web site: Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" . FC Basel – BSC Young Boys 3:0 (3:0) . Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" . 2020-11-16.
  10. Web site: BSC Young Boys – FC Basel 2:0 (0:0) . Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" . 2020-11-16.
  11. Web site: PSG complete Yakin swoop. 31 July 2003. 12 April 2008. UEFA.com.
  12. Web site: Basel boosted by Yakin return. 30 August 2003. 12 April 2008. UEFA.com.
  13. Web site: Yakin follows Streller to Stuttgart. 2 February 2004. 12 April 2008. UEFA.com.
  14. Web site: Galatasaray give Yakin a go. 26 January 2005. 12 April 2008. UEFA.com.
  15. Web site: Young Boys welcome Yakin. 10 June 2005. 12 April 2008. UEFA.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20080514120455/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/intertotocup/news/kind=1/newsid=308792.html . 14 May 2008.
  16. Web site: Switzerland striker Hakan Yakin set to sign for Qatar champion.
  17. Web site: Klatschheftli.ch. www.klatschheftli.ch. 29 March 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090328041945/http://www.klatschheftli.ch/die-odyssee-des-hakan-yakin/1801. 28 March 2009. dead.
  18. Web site: FC Yakin – the club formerly known as FC Luzern. https://web.archive.org/web/20161127023436/http://justcantbeatthat.com/2011/fc-yakin-the-club-formerly-known-as-fc-luzern/. dead. 2016-11-27.
  19. Web site: Switzerland vs Turkey match report. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090111221400/http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/tournament/matches/match%3D300690/report%3Drp.html. 11 January 2009.
  20. Web site: Switzerland vs Portugal match report. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080526144045/http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/tournament/matches/match=300698/index.html. 26 May 2008.
  21. Web site: 2011 . Hakan Yakin beendet Nationalmannschafts-Karriere . FC Luzern homepage . 4 October 2011 . de . 13 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140513012617/http://www.fcl.ch/dynasite.cfm?dsmid=78931&action=viewdet&ID=984 . dead .
  22. Web site: 2011 . Hakan Yakin calls time on Switzerland . uefa.com . 6 October 2011.
  23. Web site: FC Schaffhausen. NEUER CHEFTRAINER FC SCHAFFHAUSEN MURAT YAKIN ASSISTIERT VON HAKAN YAKIN. 17 June 2019. 22 October 2021. de. 22 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190622234111/https://fcschaffhausen.ch/news/detail/2019-06-17-090000-neuer-cheftrainer-fc-schaffhausen-murat-yakin-assistiert-von-hakan-yakin. dead.
  24. Web site: Schaffhausen. MARTIN ANDERMATT NEUER FCS-TRAINER. 17 September 2021. 22 October 2021. de. 22 October 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211022150944/https://www.fcschaffhausen.ch/news/detail/2021-09-17-193000-martin-andermatt-neuer-fcs-trainer. dead.
  25. News: Der FC Schaffhausen geht mit Hakan Yakin als Cheftrainer in die Saison 2022/23. arminia.de . FC Schaffhausen . de . 4 June 2022 . 4 June 2022.
  26. News: Die Kursbestätigung ist da - Hakan Yakin darf Cheftrainer beim FC Schaffhausen bleiben. sport.ch . de . 5 September 2022 . 5 September 2022.
  27. News: FC Schaffhausen und Hakan Yakin beenden die Zusammenarbeit. fcschaffhausen.ch . FC Schaffhausen . de . 20 May 2023 . 20 May 2023.
  28. Includes UEFA Cup, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Intertoto Cup and UEFA Champions League
  29. Web site: World Cup Profile: Hakan Yakin – Switzerland. Goal. 28 July 2019.
  30. Web site: Player of the year » Switzerland. World Football. 28 July 2019.