Rasim Kara

Rasim Kara

Personal information
Date of birth	(1950-06-10) 10 June 1950
Place of birth	Eskişehir, Turkey
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	Eskişehir Işıkspor
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
–1972	Uşakspor
1972–1976	Bursaspor	76	(1)
1976–1984	Beşiktaş	130	(3)
International career
1975–1978	Turkey	9	(0)
Managerial career
1986	Antalyaspor (assistant)
1986	Antalyaspor
1988–1989	Uzunköprüspor
1990–1996	Turkey (assistant)
1996–1997	Beşiktaş
1997–1998	Bursaspor
1998–1999	Dardanelspor
2000	Çaykur Rizespor
2000	Kocaelispor
2001–2002	Yozgatspor
2002–2003	Ottawa Wizards
2005–2006	Khazar Lankaran
2006–2007	Qarabağ
2008	Khazar Lankaran
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rasim Kara (born 10 June 1950) is a Turkish former football player and manager. A goalkeeper, he played for Bursaspor, Beşiktaş and the Turkey national team.

Playing career

Born in Eskişehir, Kara began playing as a goalkeeper with the youth side of Eskişehir Işıkspor. He would later join Uşakspor and Bursaspor. During his tenure with Bursaspor, he was promoted to the national team. He reached his peak of career with joining Beşiktaş in the 1975–76 season where he will have spent his nine years. He achieved the Turkish League title in the 1981–82 season. Kara retired football in 1984.

Kara played for Turkey in the UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying rounds.

Managerial career

Kara trained Antalyaspor prior to his vice-coaching tasks with Sepp Piontek and Fatih Terim subsequently for the Turkey national team. Most notably, he contributed the success of team accessing the Euro 96 for the very first time in history. Following this achievement, he was hired by Beşiktaş as team coach.

Whilst his one-season period with Beşiktaş in 1996–97, Kara showed some decent displays as team had competed for the title for the last week just after Galatasaray. Team also broke the "top average scoring per year" record, with creating one of the best performances in European cups. Despite this successful season, Kara had to leave the team. After that, he owned Bursaspor, Çanakkale Dardanelspor, Çaykur Rizespor, Kocaelispor within short terms.

Kara also coached abroad. He coached Canadian side Ottawa Wizards and led the team for a league title. Then he moved to Azerbaijan, east neighbour of Turkey for coaching FK Khazar Lenkoran. He was in charge for two years there before he signed for FK Qarabağ. He unexpectedly left FK Qarabağ a week before the start of the 2008–09 season, despite having one-year contract with the club and moved back to his former team FK Khazar Lenkoran. Has been penalized for his attitude by Football Federation of Azerbaijan AFFA and forced to pay compensation to his former club.

Honours

Individual

• Beşiktaş J.K. Squads of Century (Bronze Team)

External links

• Rasim Kara at www.mackolik.com (also at arsiv.mackolik.com) (in Turkish)
• Rasim Kara at the Turkish Football Federation
• Rasim Kara coach profile at the Turkish Football Federation