About Me
Hakan Sükür, (born on September 1, 1971 in Adapazari, Sakarya, Turkey), is a Turkish footballer playing the striker position. He is nicknamed "Bull of the Bosphorus" but the fans of Galatasaray prefer "KRAL" meaning "THE KING".---First in the top goal scorers list in Turkish Superlig history. Hakan scored 241 goals in his career. ---Multiple Turkish Premier Super League champion, Turkish Cup winner and top goalscorer. ---Received best scorer of the World award by FIFA 1998. ---2000 UEFA Cup winner. ---2000 UEFA European Super Cup winner. ---2002 FIFA World Cup, achieved third place with the Turkish national football team. ---Three times league top scorer (1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999) ---Scored the fastest goal ever in World Cup history (10.8 seconds) in 2002. ---Most successful player on the Turkish national team (51 goals in 109 international matches). ---Scored 38 goals in 34 matches in his best season. ---In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Turkey by the Turkish Football Federation as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. ---He is the leading active international goal scorer in Europe with 50 international goals in 107 matches.---Along with then team-mate Gheorghe Hagi, he was a member of the UEFA Cup-winning Galatasaray side of 2000. He is remembered by supporters for his scoring in European competition that year, including his superb goals against Leeds United, one in which he danced past three of their defenders to score and help send his team to the final. He is also remembered for his penalty in Galatasaray's penalty shoot-out victory over Arsenal F.C. in the final.Hakan currently plays for the Turkish club Galatasaray SK, having spent eight seasons with them in the 1990s. In 2000, he moved to Inter Milan (Italy) then spent short spells at Parma (Italy) and Blackburn Rovers (United Kingdom) before rejoining Galatasaray SK in 2003.In the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Sükür's national team went all the way to the semifinals even though he was hopelessly out of form for most of the tournament. He finally showed a glimpse of his talent when, in the third-place game against South Korea, he scored the fastest goal ever in a World Cup finals match. Ilhan Mansiz forced a Korean defender into a blunder immediately off the opening kickoff, Sükür pounced on the free ball and put the ball into the Korean net after only 10.8 seconds. [3]Hakan was capped for the 100th time in a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Ukraine. He is the third Turkish player, after Bülent Korkmaz and Rüstü Reçber, to receive this honor.Hakan..s fame in Turkey is such that his 2002 wedding was televised live. Galatasaray fans love him too much,because he's a real good player and more important than this he's a good person...We love you Hakan...
