Eren Derdiyok

Eren Derdiyok
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Personal information
Full name	Eren Derdiyok
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	FC Basel
Number	31
	‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Eren Derdiyok (born June 12, 1988) is a Swiss football player of Kurdish origin who were born in Turkey ^[1] ^[2] who currently plays as striker in the Swiss Super League for FC Basel.

Club career

At 6' 2" Derdiyok is a powerful striker who can also fill in a centre-back if needed. He started his career with Swiss minnows BSC Old Boys at the beginning of the 2005/06 season in which scored 10 goals in just 18 appearances. FC Basel noticed his goal scoring instinct and snapped him up in 2006 at the age of 18. In the 2006/07 season, Derdiyok was used mainly as a substitute, playing only one full game, and averaging a total of 220 play minutes that season. For Derdiyok, the 2007/08 season proved to be a lot more profitable and he received regular playing time. In FC Basel's main squad, Derdiyok scored his first hat trick playing away against FC Thun on 2 March, 2008. On 6 April, 2008 he won the Swisscom Cup, his first title.

It has been speculated that Eren Derdiyok has been linked to a transfer to Beşiktaş J.K. or Newcastle United.

International career

Derdiyok has been a regular in the Swiss youth sides for the past few years, scoring seven goals in seven games for the Switzerland Under 19s and an even more impressive seven goals in five games for the Switzerland Under 21s. After impressing in the Swiss Super League for FC Basel and with the Switzerland Under 21 team, Derdiyok was called up and received his first cap for the Switzerland full team against England, in a game at Wembley, on February 6 2008, at the age of 19. Having come on as a substitute at half time, it only took 12 minutes for Derdiyok to take an excellent early shot (his first), with which he scored. He was included in Switzerland's squad to play at Euro 2008 where he was responsable for every assist on the Swiss national team in the tournament. He was also the youngest player involved in the tournament[1]

International Goals

U21 Team

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	22 August, 2007	Courtrai, Belgium	Belgium	0-2	1-2	Friendly
2.	8 September, 2007	Wohlen, Switzerland	North Macedonia	1-0	1-1	Qualifier
3.	12 October, 2007	Fredrikstad, Norway	Norway	2-1	2-1	Qualifier
4.	16 October, 2007	Tallinn, Estonia	Estonia	0-1	0-4	Qualifier
5.	16 October, 2007	Tallinn, Estonia	Estonia	0-2	0-4	Qualifier
6.	17 November, 2007	Delemont, Switzerland	Estonia	1-0	5-0	Qualifier
7.	17 November, 2007	Delemont, Switzerland	Estonia	4-0	5-0	Qualifier