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Salih Yildiz
Personal information
Date of birth	(1978-11-28) 28 November 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Ajax
	Vitesse
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999-2001	Denizlispor	5	(0)
	Manisaspor	25	(2)
2003	Petkimspor	4	(1)
2004-2005	Göztepe	27	(2)
2005-2006	Akhisarspor	16	(1)
	Erzurumspor	1	(0)
2007-2008	Kırşehirspor	18	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Salih Yildiz (born 23 November 1978) is a Dutch former footballer who is last known to have played as a defender for Kırşehirspor.

Career

In 1999, Yildiz signed for Denizlispor in the Turkish top flight after playing for the youth academy of Ajax, the Netherlands' most successful club. However, he claimed that "The people at the club looked at me and said 'there you have another fake Turk there'. Only then did I notice that there was a huge mentality difference between me and the Turks. The Turkish I spoke was very outdated. That sounded very rude to the Turks. They thought I was very arrogant. Moreover, football was completely different from what I was used to in the Netherlands. You will then find out that you are actually between two cultures. You are a foreigner everywhere."

In 2003, he signed for Petkimspor in the Turkish fourth division.

References

"Voetballen in Süper Lig is de droom". nrc.nl (Archived). Archived from the original on 29 March 2020.

External links

Salih Yildiz at the Turkish Football Federation

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