Osman Çakmak
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1977 (age 46–47) | ||
| Place of birth | Narlıkışla, Zile, Tokat, Turkey | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Zeytinburnuspor | |||
| 2010– | Karagücü Amputee FC | ||
| International career | |||
| 2010–2019 | Turkey national amputee football | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 2020– | Turkey national amputee football | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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Osman Çakmak (born 1977) is a Turkish football player and coach who is the manager of the Turkey national amputee football team. He played as midfielder and served as the captain of the national amputee team.[1] He played professional football before his leg was amputated below the knee, after he stepped on a landmine during military service.[2] In 2020, he was appointed manager of the national amputee football team which won the 2021 European Amputee Football Championship under his direction.
Private life
[edit]Osman Çakmak was the sixth and last child born in 1977 into a farm family in the village of Narlıkışla in the Zile district of Tokat Province, Turkey in 1977.[1]
He was schooled in his village. After finishing primary school, he went to Istanbul with two of his brothers to look for work.[2] Çakmak discontinued his education because of his passion for playing football.[1] Despite his brothers' objections, he joined Zeytinburnuspor football club. Çakmak worked as a carpenter and supported his parents financially. He needed to earn more money to support his family when his brothers were conscripted, so he went to Russia as a foreign worker. Çakmak returned to Turkey and quit his football team's squad.[2]
When he was conscripted, Çakmak chose the Commando unit and was stationed at the Iraq–Turkey border.[2] In 1997, he stepped on an anti-personnel mine planted under a road's surface in Şenoba, Şırnak, southeastern Turkey, while he was on a road security detail, and lost his left leg below the knee.[1]
In 2008, at the time of his therapy, while he was on his way to the military hospital in Ankara, Çakmak decided to play amputee football at the suggestion of his commanders.[1]
In 2019, his parents were poisoned by gas leaking from a stove; his mother Sultan died, while his father was treated at an intensive care station.[2]
Club player career
[edit]Association football
[edit]Çakmak played association football professionally in his youth for Zeytinburnuspor.[2]
Amputee football
[edit]After his release from the military hospital, he joined the amputee football team, Karagücü, a Turkish Land Forces sports club, to play in the 2010–11 Turkish Amputee Football League.[3]
International player career
[edit]In 2010, he was admitted to Turkey's national amputee team.[4] He participated in the European and world championships in 2010,[4] 2012 and 2014. The national team placed third among 24 nations. He captained the national team,[1] which became champion of the 2017 European Amputee Football Championship and the runner-up of the 2018 Amputee Football World Cup.[1][5]
Manager career
[edit]In 2020, he was appointed manager of the national amputee football team,[5] which won the 2021 European Amputee Football Championship under his direction.[6]
Honours
[edit]Player
[edit]- World Cup
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- Runners-up (1): 2018[5]
Manager
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h "Osman Çakmak" (in Turkish). Türk Sporu. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f "Osman Çakmak kimdir? Osman Çakmak nereli?". Fanatik (in Turkish). 3 February 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "Demir Kramponların şampiyonu belli oldu". NTV Spor (in Turkish). 14 May 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Ampute Futbol Milli Takımı Dünya Şampiyonası için Arjantin yolcusu". Yeşil Gazete (in Turkish). 4 October 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ a b c "Ampute Milli Futbol Takımı Teknik Direktörü Osman Çakmak ne büyük hayalini açıkladı". Fanatik (in Turkish). 7 May 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Ampute Milli Takım Teknik Direktör Osman Çakmak'tan futbolseverlere çağrı". T24 (in Turkish). 19 September 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "Osman Çakmak: Şampiyonluğumuz aziz şehitlerimize armağan olsun". Fanatik (in Turkish). 9 October 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
