Rıza Çalımbay

Rıza Çalımbay
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Personal information
Full name	Rıza Çalımbay
Date of birth	2 February 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth	Sivas, Turkey
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Antalyaspor (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1980–1996	Beşiktaş
International career
1980-1981	Turkey U18
1981-1984	Turkey U21
1981–1992	Turkey
Managerial career
2001–2002	Göztepe
2002–2003	Denizlispor
2004–2005	Çaykur Rizespor
2005	Beşiktaş
2005–2006	Ankaraspor
2007	Çaykur Rizespor
2008–2010	Eskişehirspor
2010–2013	Sivasspor
2013–2014	Çaykur Rizespor
2014–2015	Mersin İdmanyurdu
2015–2016	Kasımpaşa
2016–	Antalyaspor
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rıza Çalımbay, (born 2 February 1963 in Sivas, Turkey) is a former Turkish international footballer, and a manager. He was one of the symbol names of Beşiktaş J.K. and was among the best players of his time. Because of his determination and hard work he was nicknamed Atom Ant (in Turkish, "Atom Karınca").

Playing career

He started playing football in Beşiktaş J.K. academy. He has depicted for the first team in 1980–81 season. Until his retirement in 1996, he played only for Beşiktaş, and for the Turkish National Football Team, although he played in the UNICEF-world team against Germany and caught the eye of many clubs like Olympique Marseille but Çalımbay would not leave Beşiktaş. He played 494 league games for Beşiktaş and scored 41 goals. He is the most capped player for Beşiktaş. He was also the captain of the team. He also played 37 times for Turkey.

Managerial career

After retiring from football, Çalımbay took manager courses in England. In 2001, he became the assistant manager for Christoph Daum at Beşiktaş but after a short time he resigned, and became the manager of Göztepe, Denizlispor and Çaykur Rizespor. He was especially successful at Denizlispor, leading the team to latter stages in the UEFA Cup eliminating teams like Sparta Prague and the mighty Olympique Lyon side of Paul Le Guen. The FC Porto side of José Mourinho ended the UEFA Cup dreams of Denizlispor and Çalımbay after an 8–3 win on aggregate. In 2004/2005 season, he became the manager of Beşiktaş after Vicente Del Bosque was sacked. That season Beşiktaş was having really bad results and the squad was in a bad mood. But after Çalımbay took control the team started to perform really well. Çalımbay changed the system back to a 3–5–2 formation the usual formation and began playing good football he also picked a 4–3 win over rivals Fenerbahçe SK in the Fenerbahçe Stadium. However in the season 2005/2006, Beşiktaş was performing bad once again, Despite UEFA Cup wins against FC Vaduz and Malmö FF a 1–2 home defeat by Fenerbahçe SK took the coach into troubled waters. Çalımbay resigned in the 9th week after a 0–0 draw against Kayserispor. Jean Tigana became the manager of Beşiktaş after him. He then coached Ankaraspor but resigned after a few matches.

Çalımbay signed a 1.5 year contract with again Çaykur Rizespor, although he had options to coach abroad in Iran and Germany but he chose Çaykur Rizespor.

On 6 June 2008 he signed a 3 year deal with Eskişehirspor.

International goals

Rıza Çalımbay – goals for Turkey
#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Goals	Result	Competition
1	13 November 1991	Istanbul, Turkey,	Republic of Ireland	1-1	1–3	UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying

Managerial statistics

Updated 11.05.2015

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
G	W	D	L	Win %	GF	GA	+/-
Göztepe		2001	2001	19	7	6	6	36.84	19	34	-15
Denizlispor		2002	2003	56	20	16	20	35.71	81	77	+4
Ankaragücü		2003	2004	24	10	4	10	41.67	35	34	+1
Çaykur Rizespor		2004	2005	19	9	5	5	47.37	23	12	+11
Beşiktaş		2005	2005	30	18	7	5	60	50	26	+24
Ankaraspor		2005	2006	6	1	2	3	16.67	7	10	-3
Çaykur Rizespor		2007	2007	18	6	4	8	33.33	20	21	-1
Eskişehirspor		2008	2010	84	29	23	32	34.52	107	104	+3
Sivasspor		2010	2013	115	43	29	43	37.39	??	??	??
Çaykur Rizespor		2013	2014	22	5	6	11	22.73	21	29	-8
Mersin İdmanyurdu		2014	2015	45	18	10	17	41.46	73	65	+8
Kasımpaşa		2015	2016	38	15	9	14	41.46	73	65	+8
Total				434	165	111	158	38.02	???	???	??

External links

Profile at TFF.org