İsmail Demiriz

İsmail Demiriz (born 1 April 1962) is a Turkish former football manager and footballer who played as a rightback.

İsmail Demiriz
Personal information
Full name İsmail Demiriz
Date of birth (1962-04-01) 1 April 1962
Place of birth Turgutlu, Turkey
Playing position(s) Rightback
Youth career
1979–1981 İzmirspor
1980 →Kocaelispor (loan)
1981–1982 Denizlispor
1982–1983 Göztepe
1983 →İzmirspor (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1984 Gençlerbirliği 34 (0)
1984–1993 Galatasaray 251 (7)
National team‡
1980 Turkey U18 3 (0)
1982–1983 Turkey U21 5 (0)
1983–1988 Turkey 27 (0)
Teams managed
1995–1996 Kasımpaşa
1996–1997 Nişantaşıspor
1998 Karabükspor
1999–2000 Siirtspor
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 April 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 3 April 2018

In 2019, Demiriz was convicted in Turkey and sentenced to prison for over a half-dozen years for his affiliations with Hizmet, a self-described transnational association based on moral principles and outlawed in Turkey as allegedly an "armed terrorist group."[1]

Professional career

Demiriz spent his whole career in Turkey, and is best known for his stint with Galatasaray with whom he played 251 times and scored 7 times.[2] He helped Galatasaray win 3 Süper Lig titles, and 10 other domestic titles. He was briefly a manager after retiring from football.

Other Interests

In September 2016, Demiriz was charged with being part of a Gülenist terrorist organization and detained in Istanbul.[3]

Honours
Galatasaray

References
  1. https://ahvalnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/ahvalnews.com/turkey-arrests/turkish-court-sentences-ex-footballer-jail-over-gulen-movement-links?amp
  2. Haber7. "İsmail Demiriz kimdir? Aslen nereli ve kaç yaşındadır?". Haber7.
  3. "Eski Galatasaraylı futbolcu İsmail Demiriz tutuklandı". 22 September 2016.
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