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Barış Özbek

Barış Özbek
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Personal information
Date of birth (1986-09-14) 14 September 1986 (age 30)
Place of birth Castrop-Rauxel, West Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
MSV Duisburg
Number 25
Youth career
Blau-Gelb Schwerin
SG Wattenscheid 09
DJK TuS Hordel
2003–2005 Rot-Weiss Essen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2007 Rot-Weiss Essen 38 (1)
2007–2011 Galatasaray 91 (7)
2011–2013 Trabzonspor 9 (0)
2013–2015 Union Berlin 40 (2)
2015–2016 Kayserispor 11 (0)
2016– MSV Duisburg 22 (0)
National team
2006–2007 Germany U20 3 (0)
2006–2008 Germany U21 16 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:13, 6 May 2017 (UTC).

Barış Özbek (Turkish pronunciation: [barɯʃ øzbek], born 14 September 1986) is a German footballer of Turkish descent who plays for MSV Duisburg.

Özbek cemented his spot as a solid regular starter at Galatasaray in his first season after an impressive start to the season. He recently celebrated the league title in Istanbul with his club. They won the 2007–08 season. At the start of the 2009–10 season, he scored a brace during the third qualifying round of the Europa League, against Maccabi Netanya on 6 August 2009. Özbek has adopted the nickname Barış for his commitment when it comes to chasing the ball. He moved to MSV Duisburg on 1 February 2016.

Özbek has played for the German U-21 national team.

His brother, Ufuk is also a professional footballer. Özbek is known to be fairly clumsy, during the renovation of his house in Germany, he managed to injure himself to miss the first half of the Turkish Premier Division 2011–12 season.


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