Rasim Kara (born 10 June 1950) is a Turkish former

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player and manager. A

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, he played for

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and the Turkey national team.

Playing career

Born in

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, Kara began playing as a goalkeeper with the youth side of Eskişehir Işıkspor. He would later join

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and

. During his tenure with Bursaspor, he was promoted to the national team. He reached his peak of career with joining Beşiktaş in the 1975–76 season where he will have spent his nine years. He achieved the

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title in the 1981–82 season. Kara retired football in 1984. Kara played for Turkey in the

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qualifying rounds.

Managerial career

Kara trained

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prior to his vice-coaching tasks with Sepp Piontek and

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subsequently for the Turkey national team. Most notably, he contributed the success of team accessing the

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for the very first time in history. Following this achievement, he was hired by Beşiktaş as team coach. Whilst his one-season period with Beşiktaş in 1996–97, Kara showed some decent displays as team had competed for the title for the last week just after Galatasaray. Team also broke the "top average scoring per year" record, with creating one of the best performances in European cups. Despite this successful season, Kara had to leave the team. After that, he owned

, Çanakkale Dardanelspor,

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, Kocaelispor within short terms. Kara also coached abroad. He coached Canadian side Ottawa Wizards and led the team for a league title. Then he moved to Azerbaijan, east neighbour of Turkey for coaching FK Khazar Lenkoran. He was in charge for two years there before he signed for FK Qarabağ. He unexpectedly left FK Qarabağ a week before the start of the 2008–09 season, despite having one-year contract with the club and moved back to his former team FK Khazar Lenkoran. Has been penalized for his attitude by Football Federation of Azerbaijan AFFA and forced to pay compensation to his former club.

Honours

Individual *Beşiktaş J.K. Squads of Century (Bronze Team)

References

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