Archive picture Nuri Sahin / Picture: APA / EPA / ULI DECK
The former Bundesliga soccer player Nuri Sahin has surprisingly become a coach at the Turkish premier league club Antalyaspor, the club announced.
According to reports from the Turkish media, the club gave the 33-year-old a five-year contract and gave the former Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen midfielder free choice to end his active career or work as a player-coach. “That depends on his preferences,” “Haber Global” quoted Antalyaspor President Aziz Çetin as saying.
After only eight points in the first eight match days and a 1: 2 defeat against promoted Adana Demirspor, Lukas Podolski's ex-club was in the 14th position. went into the international break and parted ways with coach Ersun Yanal on October 4th after almost a year.
Sahin moved from Werder Bremen to Turkey in 2020 and now has his first head coach post. With Dortmund Sahin won the DFB Cup and the German championship, in Spain he won the title in the Primera Divison with Real Madrid. The former Turkish international was also under contract with Liverpool.
