Edin Pepić (born 13 July 1991), previously known as Edin Sancaktar until 2019, is a German footballer who plays as a

goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...

Personal life

Pepić was born in

Ratingen Ratingen (; ) is a town in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the northwestern part of Berg about 12 km northeast of Düsseldorf. Administration With a communal reform of 1975 the independent municipalit ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

to Yugoslav immigrants to Germany, originally with the surname Sancaktar. When moving to Germany, his father had to change his surname from Pepić to Sancaktar. In 2019, he re-took his father's original surname "Pepić".

References

External links

* 1991 births Living people People from Ratingen Footballers from Düsseldorf (region) Men's association football goalkeepers Fortuna Düsseldorf players Borussia Dortmund II players FC 08 Homburg players Goslarer SC 08 players SG Wattenscheid 09 players Wuppertaler SV players 3. Liga players German men's footballers 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-footy-goalkeeper-stub