Hakan Yakin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hakan Yakin
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1977(1977-02-22)
Age	47
Birthplace	Basel
Country	Switzerland
Birth City	Basel-Stadt
Horoscope	Aquarius

Hakan Yakin Biography

Hakan Yakin is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on February 22, 1977 in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland. Hakan Yakin (Turkish Hakan Yakin, born 22 February 1977 in Turkestan) is an ex-swiss footballer who played as a forward and midfielder. For eleven years, he was a member the Swiss national football team.

In January 2001, he returned to Basel. Yakin won the national Double with Basel at the end of 2001-02 season and won the Swiss Cup once more a year later. The match against Liverpool in St. Jakob-Park on 12/11/2002 was the “match of my life”. Basel won the game 3-3. Yakin provided all three assists. They qualified for the 2002-03 UEFA Champions League group stage, one point ahead of Liverpool.

On 11 June 2008, he scored the opening goal in the 32nd minute of Switzerland’s second Euro 2008 Group A match against Turkey, giving them a 1–0 lead and he refused to celebrate after the goal as a respect for his family’s birth country. However, he missed another chance shortly afterward as Turkey scored two second-half goals, resulting in Switzerland’s becoming the first team to be mathematically eliminated from their own tournament within five days of its beginning. However, in Switzerland’s final group match against Portugal on 15 June, Yakin added two second-half goals, the second a penalty kick, to secure their first ever win at the UEFA European Championship, 2–0. Yakin finished the tournament as joint-second highest goalscorer with Lukas Podolski, Roman Pavlyuchenko, and Semih Şentürk with three goals each, behind David Villa’s four goals.

In March 2009, it was reported that Yakin had been training with the Grasshopper Club Zürich Under-21 side, coached by his brother Murat, in a bid to get fit. Yakin then signed a contract on 25 June 2009 in his homeland Switzerland with FC Luzern, running through to 30 June 2011. In summer 2011 his brother Murat became his manager at FC Luzern.

Yakin was capped for Switzerland 87 times, with the first being in 2000. Before being called up to the Swiss squad, Yakin was offered Turkish citizenship. However, he declined it for personal reasons. He played in UEFA Euro 2004 and UEFA Euro 2008 as well as the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and the 2010 FIFA World Cup together with his country.

Hakan Yakin Net Worth

Hakan Yakin is one of the richest Association Football Player from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hakan Yakin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Yakin was a youth player in his local FC Concordia Basel team as a child. In January 1995, he signed his first professional contract for FC Basel. On 12 April 1995, he made his League debut with Basel in the match against Lausanne Sports. Alexandre Rey was replaced in the 60th minute. He was brought on and within 18 seconds, scored the goal that made it 3-0.

He spent two and a quarter years in Basel before transferring to Grasshopper Club Zurich with Christian Gross as manager. However, he couldn’t establish himself and was often substituted. For the second half 1997-98 season, he was loaned out to FC St. Gallen. He was immediately moved into the starting eleven, and the loan was extended before he returned the Grasshoppers.

His career was then overshadowed by some trouble regarding his club transfers, as his engagements outside Switzerland (Paris Saint-Germain, VfB Stuttgart, and Galatasaray) were not accompanied by luck. In 2005–06, Yakin returned to Switzerland, joining BSC Young Boys. In July 2008, Yakin signed a contract with Qatar champions Al-Gharafa, for a salary of around €2.5 million per year.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Hakan Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Switzerland. Hakan Yakin celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.