Rasim Kara
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 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 JK | 130 | (3) |
| International career | |||
| 1975-1978 | Turkey | 9 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1986 | Antalyaspor | ||
| 1996–1997 | Beşiktaş JK | ||
| 1997–1998 | Bursaspor | ||
| 2000-2001 | Kocaelispor | ||
| 2001-2003 | Ottawa Wizards | ||
| 2004-2005 | Khazar Lankaran | ||
| 2007-2008 | FK Qarabağ | ||
| 2008-2009 | Khazar Lankaran | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Rasim Kara (born 10 June 1950), is a former Turkey international football goalkeeper and manager. He is one of the sportsmen who served Turkish side Beşiktaş both as a player and coach.
Career
Football 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.[1] He reached his peak of career with joining Beşiktaş in 1975/76 season where he will have spent his nine years. He achieved the Turkish League title in 1981/82 season. Kara retired football in 1984.
Kara played for Turkey in the UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying rounds.[2]
Managerial career
Kara trained Antalyaspor[3] prior to his vice-coaching tasks with Sepp Piontek and Fatih Terim subsequently for Turkish 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 very 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 conpensation to his former club.
References
- ^ http://www.eu-football.info/_player.php?id=17400
- ^ Haisma, Marcel and Van den Elsen, John (2009-10-02). "European Championship 1976 (Details)". RSSSF.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ http://www.mackolik.com/Antrenor/2016/Rasim-Kara
External links
- Rasim Kara career stats in Turkey at mackolik.com
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Turkish football managers
- Bursaspor footballers
- Beşiktaş J.K. footballers
- Antalyaspor managers
- Beşiktaş J.K. managers
- Bursaspor managers
- Turkish footballers
- Turkey international footballers
- People from Eskişehir
- Süper Lig managers
- Expatriate soccer managers in Canada
- Expatriate football managers in Azerbaijan
- Kocaelispor managers
- Turkish people of Circassian descent
- Turkey under-21 international footballers
- FK Qarabağ managers
- FK Khazar Lankaran managers
- Canadian Professional Soccer League (1998-2005) managers