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Metehan Altunbaş
Altunbaş in 2022
Personal information
Date of birth (2003-01-07) 7 January 2003 (age 21)
Place of birth Eskişehir, Turkey
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Adanaspor
Number 7
Youth career
2012–2019 Eskişehirspor
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2021 Eskişehirspor 14 (1)
2020–2022 Juniors OÖ 35 (4)
2020–2022 LASK 3 (0)
2022– Adanaspor 6 (0)
International career‡
2020 Turkey U17 1 (0)
2022– Turkey U19 9 (2)
2022– Turkey U23 4 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 October 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 August 2022

Metehan Altunbaş (born 7 January 2003) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a forward for Adanaspor.[1]

Career

Club career

Altunbaş came through the youth ranks of Eskişehirspor, making his professional debut for the club in a TFF First League match against İstanbulspor as an overtime substitute on 28 October 2018.[2]

In September 2020, Eskişehirspor announced his transfer to Austrian first tier side LASK, effective January 2021, for a transfer fee of reportedly €150,000.[3] He initially was designed to play for LASK's reserve team Juniors OÖ in second tier, though making his Austrian Bundesliga debut already on 14 March 2021.[4]

International career

He played for Turkey national under-17 football team in 2020, a friendly against Slovakia, which ended with a 1–0 win for Turkey. He was also part of the U-19 team, having scored two games after nine appearances.

He was summoned to the U-23 squad for the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, as his team won the tournament. He played four games out of five, and scored only one, which was the goal in the final against Saudi Arabia, as Turkey gained gold with a 1–0 win. It was notable that he became the first player to score a goal against Saudi goalkeeper Nawaf Al-Aqidi after nine games without conceding a goal from an open play.

References

  1. ^ "Metehan Altunbaş (42)" (in German). lask.at. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Game Report by Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Ein Stürmer-Talent aus der Türkei für den LASK" [A talent striker from Turkey for LASK] (in German). kurier.at. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Game Report by Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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