Aylin Yaren (born 30 August 1989 in

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, Germany) is a

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, who currently plays for

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in Germany.

Early life

Yaren was born to

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parents in

, and grew up in

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and

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. Her first football club was

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. At school, she completed the

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Playing career

Club

Yaren played in 2009 at the Swedish

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for LdB Malmö before she returned to Germany to join TeBe Berlin. She transferred from

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at the beginning of 2012, and scored the opening goal in her debut against

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. In February 2016, Yaren moved to Turkey to play for

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in the Turkish First League. In the 2016–17 season, she returned home, and joined

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to play in the 2. Bundesliga Nord. After sustaining an injury, she had to take a break upon advise of her physician.

International

Yaren made her debut for the

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in a friendly match against

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on 22 January 2006. She played in the Germany youth national and Turkey U-17 national, Turkey U-19 national teams.

In media and freestyle football shows

In 2007, she took part in the television show ''Torwandschießen'' (literally: goal wall shooting) of the German channel

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, where she won a type of

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with 4–3 against

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's newly transferred French footballer Frank Ribery. Yaren is practicing

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by performing the art of self-expression with a football and exhibiting various tricks with her body. She learnt the art from videos on the internet, and she is training three to four hours a day. She participated from 2010 to 2012 as contestant at episodes of the Turkey's ''

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'' television show ''

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'' demonstrating her art of freestyle football. In 2019, she participated at the German TV talent show ''

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'' showing her football skills there. Yaren was one of the two players, the other being

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, who gave freestyle football performances in the roadshow for the

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. At the actions during the

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held in Germany, she was invited to perform freestyle football shows again. In 2011, she gave between 50 and 60 performances. She appears with her shows also at company events and

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stadiums in

. In an interview in 2011, she said that she have deliberately not played qualifying games for Turkey for many years in order to keep the possibility open of playing for the German national team. However, she did not receive a nomination by the German national coach. She played her first European Championship qualifying match for Turkey in 2015, whereby she ultimately become long-term bound by the Turkish football association.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yaren, Aylin 1989 births Living people German sportspeople of Turkish descent German women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Turkish women's footballers 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Footballers from Berlin Turkey women's youth international footballers Turkey women's international footballers FC Rosengård players Tennis Borussia Berlin players Hamburger SV (women) players SC 07 Bad Neuenahr players 1. FC Lübars players Trabzon İdmanocağı women's players Freestyle footballers Turkey's Got Talent contestants Frauen-Bundesliga players 2. Frauen-Bundesliga players Women's association football midfielders Damallsvenskan players 21st-century German sportswomen BFC Meteor 06 players