İrfan Buz

İrfan Buz
Personal information
Full name İrfan Buz
Date of birth (1967-04-15) April 15, 1967
Place of birth Istanbul, Turkey
Playing position Midfielder
Youth career
Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989-1991 Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid
1989-1992 Sarıyer S.K. 1 (0)
1991-1992 →Vanspor (loan) 18 (2)
1992-1995 Sakaryaspor 22 (1)
1993-1994 →Istanbul Maltepespor (loan) 15 (1)
1995-1998 Barışspor Hackenberg
Teams managed
1995-1998 Barışspor Hackenberg
1998-2008 Germany U11-U19
2009-2013 SpVg Olpe
2013-2014 Bursaspor (assistant coach)
2014 Bursaspor
2014-2015 Gençlerbirliği
2015-2017 Yeni Malatyaspor
2017- Osmanlıspor
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 May 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 May 2018

İrfan Buz (born 11 January 1980) is a Turkish football manager and retired footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the manager of Osmanlıspor in the Turkish Süper Lig.

Professional career

Buz moved to Germany in 1971 with his family, and graduated as a construction technician from the Technical University of Dortmund. He began playing amateur football with Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid, before playing professional in Turkey.[1] Buz joined Sarıyer S.K. in the Süper Lig in 1989, but only made 1 appearance over 2 years.[2]

Irfan Buz 2010

Managerial career

After his footballing career, Buz began working as a football manager. He transitioned as player manager for the amateur German club Barışspor Hackenberg. From 1999-2008, he served a youth coach in for the German Football Association. He managed the German club SpVg Olpe from 2009 to 2013 and got attention from the Turkish Süper Lig.[3]In 2013 He briefly joined FC Iserlohn 46/49 in 2013 before moving to Bursaspor in 2013.[4]

In 20133, Buz was appointed assistant coach of Bursaspor, and became the head coach on 26 March 2014.[5] He then went to manage Gençlerbirliği on 23 September 2014.[6] He then spent a couple years at Yeni Malatyaspor, who he helped promoted to the Süper Lig in his final season with them.[7] In 2017, he became the manager of Osmanlıspor, who were relegated at the end of the season.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "İrfan Buz".
  2. ↑ Bursaspor. "Bursaspor Kulübü Resmi Televizyonu". www.bursasportv.com.
  3. ↑ Germany, RevierSport, Essen,. "WL 2: Olpes Buz lehnte Angebot aus der Süper Lig ab".
  4. ↑ "Irfan Buz wird Co-Trainer von Christoph Daum". 14 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "Bursaspor‘da İrfan Buz dönemi - Akşam". C1 control character in |title= at position 10 (help)
  6. ↑ "Gençler'de Buz devri!".
  7. ↑ fanatik. "Yeni Malatyaspor İrfan Buz'la yolları ayırdı". Fanatik.
  8. ↑ "Yeni hoca kim olacak?".
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