Cenk Tosun, who was born in Wetzlar, performed for Eintracht for 14 years. It’s simply sufficient for skilled use. It was solely when he left Frankfurt that he made a profession – and finally performed in a European Championship.
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Cenk Tosun on the European Championships: Former Eintracht participant as a distinguished determine in Turkey
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Turkey’s European Championship squad is definitely not missing in gifted younger gamers relating to soccer. First up is Arda Güler, 19, an attacking midfielder for Actual Madrid. Or Kenan Yildiz, 19, striker from Juventus Turin. And at last, Semih Kilicsoy, 18, an attacker from Besiktas Istanbul, who has been on the want record of a number of huge golf equipment in Europe for a very long time. They need to form a brand new period of Turkish soccer, a profitable period – and so they merely introduced their huge brother with them to the European Championships.
Nicely, not actually, however figuratively. Cenk Tosun, 33, born in Wetzlar, grew up in Raunheim, educated as a footballer at Eintracht Frankfurt, which was not surprisingly within the Turks’ event squad. Nationwide coach Vincenzo Montella most well-liked him to Frankfurt’s Can Uzun. In line with Tosun, who just lately spoke about Güler, Yildiz and Kilicsoy, the workforce has “huge star candidates” “They’re at all times on my aspect. I attempt to be an excellent instance for them.”
The Tosun household lives within the Rhine-Foremost space
Cenk Tosun is a boy from Frankfurt. Immediately, most of his household nonetheless dwell within the metropolis or the encompassing space. If the attacker’s present employer, Besiktas Istanbul, has a couple of days off from coaching, he likes to fly to Rhine-Foremost.
He was on the pitch for Eintracht within the youth and under-23 groups for a formidable 14 years, however below coach Michael Skibbe he solely had a short spell with the professionals. He did not get a correct likelihood then;
EM driver with connection to Hesse
Germany’s European Championship squad consists of three gamers with hyperlinks to Hesse: Eintracht defender Robin Prepare dinner, the native Frankfurt Emre Can in addition to Music Jamal, who discovered to play soccer in East Hesse. As well as, Cenk Tosun (Türkiye), born in Wetzlar, and Klaus Gjasula on the European Championships. The Scot has been enjoying for Darmstadt 98 for 3 years.
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Besiktas thrice, England twice: Tosun is making a profession
Tosun left – and made a dwelling. He, who earned Eintracht 500,000 euros in switch charges, is enjoying for Besiktas for the third time, and in between he performed for Crystal Palace and Everton FC in England.
When the Toffees introduced him to the island in 2018, they paid 22.5 million euros – thus far the second highest switch payment within the Turkish Süper Lig, solely Munich consultant Boey was costlier just lately (30 million euros). Tosun is pleased with his profession, and rightly so. In 51 worldwide video games he scored 20 occasions and even led his nation to the sphere as captain.
European Soccer Championship 2024 on sportschau.de
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Türkiye performs towards Georgia, Portugal and the Czech Republic
For the upcoming European Championship, through which the Turks will compete on Tuesday in Dortmund towards Georgia (6 pm) after which towards Portugal (June 22/6 pm) and the Czech Republic (June 26/9 pm), no Tosun solely plans to… Help the workforce’s younger stars. He additionally needs to face on the garden of their place.
“That is my job, I got here right here to attain targets.” Tosun is anticipating many acquainted faces within the German stadiums; So he was “very excited”. One thing he may need in widespread with the extremely gifted children.
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