Oğuzhan Kefkir (born 27 August 1991) is a German professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays for

Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiss Essen is a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club currently plays in the 3. Liga, at the Stadion an der Hafenstraße. The team won the DFB-Pokal in 1953, and the German championship in 19 ...

as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

Career

Born in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "'' Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

, Kefkir began his career in 1997 with SV Bayer Wuppertal 04. In 2002, he joined

VfL Bochum Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum (), is a German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has spent 35 seasons in the Bundesli ...

's youth academy. He made his

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footbal ...

debut for

on 3 April 2010 against

SC Freiburg Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg () or just Freiburg, is a German football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions from the 2. Bunde ...

. On 27 May 2010, he signed his first professional contract for

and was promoted from the U-19 team.

Career statistics

References

Kefkir ist zurück in Dortmund
kicker.de, 2 December 2015

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kefkir, Oguzhan 1991 births Living people German sportspeople of Turkish descent Sportspeople from Wuppertal Men's association football midfielders German footballers Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Alemannia Aachen players VfL Bochum players VfL Bochum II players Borussia Dortmund II players VfR Aalen players KFC Uerdingen 05 players Rot-Weiss Essen players