turkish football player, natural 1991
Cenk Tosun ( turkish : [ dʒeɲc ˈtosun ] ; born 7 June 1991 ) is a turkish professional football player who plays as a striker for Premier League club Everton and the Turkey national team. After making one Bundesliga appearance for Eintracht Frankfurt, he transferred to Gaziantepspor in January 2011, where he won the Spor Toto Cup in 2012. In 2014, he was signed by Beşiktaş and won two Süper Lig titles before transferring to Everton in January 2018 for a reported £27 million transfer tip. Tosun was born in Germany and represented the country from under-16 to under-21 level. He then changed his commitment to Turkey, for whom he made his senior external debut with in 2013, and played at UEFA Euro 2016.

Club career [edit ]

Eintracht Frankfurt [edit ]

Born in Wetzlar in the german country of Hesse, Tosun began his career with Eintracht Frankfurt. He played chiefly for the reserves in the Regionalliga. His sole foremost team appearance was on 8 May 2010 in the final peer of the 2009–10 Bundesliga season as a 75th-minute substitute for Martin Fenin in a 3–1 loss at VfL Wolfsburg. [ 4 ]

Gaziantepspor [edit ]

On 29 January 2011, Tosun joined Gaziantepspor for a €400,000 transplant fee. [ 5 ] He scored 10 goals in 14 league matches in his introduction season. After a less successful second season, he scored double digits in the pursue two campaigns and helped the club win the Spor Toto Cup in 2012. [ 5 ] He scored doubly in the final, a 3–1 win over Orduspor on 17 May 2012. [ 6 ]

Beşiktaş [edit ]

Tosun play for Beşiktaş in 2014 On 4 February 2014, Beşiktaş signed Tosun on a five-year compress worth about €500,000, effective from the 2014–15 season. [ 7 ] He chose the count 23 shirt after basketball player Michael Jordan. [ 5 ] In his inaugural two campaigns at the Istanbul clubhouse, he was chiefly a alternate, behind Demba Ba and Mario Gómez in the peck order. [ 5 ] After Ba and Gómez left, he was a regular in the 2016–17 season, scoring 24 goals as his club won the Süper Lig title. [ 5 ] He then turned down a move to Premier League club Crystal Palace. [ 5 ] In 2017–18, Tosun scored four goals in six meet as Beşiktaş won a UEFA Champions League group containing RB Leipzig, Porto and Monaco, including both of a 2–1 acquire at Monaco on 17 October. [ 8 ]

Everton [edit ]

On 5 January 2018, Tosun joined Premier League club Everton for a reported £27 million transportation fee, signing a four-and-a-half-year shrink with the Merseyside club. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] He made his introduction eight days belated, playing 61 minutes of a 4–0 loss aside to Tottenham Hotspur. [ 11 ] He scored his first finish for the club in a 2–1 away loss against Burnley on 3 March. [ 12 ] Manager Sam Allardyce praised Tosun when he received criticism for the start of his Everton career. [ 13 ] Tosun and boyfriend newly signing Theo Walcott helped an Everton side that had struggled for goals in the first gear half of the season as the club finished in eighth place in the 2017–18 Premier League. [ 14 ] Under new coach Marco Silva, Tosun lost his starting place to Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Moise Kean. however, he stayed at the cabaret for the 2019–20 season after rejecting moves to Galatasaray S.K. and Qatar ‘s Al-Gharafa SC. [ 15 ] [ 16 ]

lend to Crystal Palace [edit ]

Tosun moved on lend to Crystal Palace for the rest of the 2019–20 season on 10 January 2020. [ 17 ] He made his debut the future day against Arsenal when he came on for Max Meyer in the 68th minute of the 1–1 base reap. [ 18 ] In his following game, a first start on 18 January, he scored in a 2–2 guide away to reigning champions Manchester City. [ 19 ] In March, Tosun was sidelined with an anterior cruciate ligament injury picked up during train. [ 20 ] He returned to Everton for rehabilitation once surgery had been completed. [ 21 ]

loanword to Beşiktaş [edit ]

On 31 January 2021, Tosun returned to Beşiktaş on a loanword deal until the end of the season. [ 22 ] On his league introduction on 15 February, he came on as a 62nd-minute replacement for Vincent Aboubakar and scored doubly in a 3–0 win at Gençlerbirliği. [ 23 ] He subsequently suffered another stifle injury and was diagnosed with COVID-19. [ 24 ]

International career [edit ]

Germany youth [edit ]

Tosun played for Germany under-19 in qualification for the 2010 UEFA european Under-19 Championship. In the qualifying group in Luxembourg, he scored doubly in a 5–0 acquire over Moldova and a consolation goal in a 2–1 loss to Turkey. [ 25 ] He scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 win over Poland in the Elite Round, but Germany did not advance to the finals in France. [ 26 ]

On 16 November 2010, Tosun made his under-21 introduction in a 2–0 friendly winnings over England in Wiesbaden, scoring a penalty for the second goal. [ 27 ]

turkey [edit ]

Tosun made his aged international debut for Turkey on 15 October 2013, replacing Selçuk İnan for the final 16 minutes of a 2–0 loss to the Netherlands in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying meet at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium in Istanbul ; the result ended the Turks ‘ hope of reservation. [ 28 ] On 13 November 2015, he scored his first base external goal, the winner in a 2–1 friendly triumph away to Qatar. [ 29 ] He added another two goals on 24 March 2016 in a 2–1 friendly acquire over Sweden in Antalya. [ 30 ] Tosun was part of the 23-man team chosen by promontory passenger car Fatih Terim for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. [ 31 ] He started in the open meet, a 1–0 loss to Croatia, but was dropped in privilege of Burak Yılmaz for the adopt peer against Spain. Tosun then returned as an added-time ersatz in the 2–0 acquire over the Czech Republic in Lens that was not adequate to take Turkey to the round of 16. [ 32 ] In Turkey ‘s fail qualification campaign for the 2018 World Cup, Tosun scored five goals. These were braces in both matches against Finland, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] and the alone goal of a home win over eventual qualifiers Croatia on 5 September 2017. [ 35 ] On 1 June 2018, Tosun scored a punishment to open a 2–2 friendly guide with Tunisia in Geneva, then was sent-off for the inaugural prison term in his career for a confrontation with the turkish fans ; he said he intervened because he thought his forefather was being attacked in the crowd. [ 36 ] Tosun was Turkey ‘s top scorer with five goals in Turkey ‘s successful UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying. These included braces in home plate and away 4–0 wins over Moldova. [ 37 ] [ 38 ]

style of dally [edit ]

Tosun has said his ability is equal with his leave and right animal foot, as his father Senol forbade him from using his correctly foot in an attempt to strengthen his left. [ 5 ] As a son, he idolised Argentine forward Gabriel Batistuta. [ 5 ] While Tosun likens himself to Mario Gómez and Zlatan Ibrahimović, The Times writer Gary Jacob alternatively found him more similar to the english strikers Kevin Davies and Andy Carroll for his animalism. [ 39 ]

political views [edit ]

On 11 October 2019, Tosun scored in the 90th minute of a 1–0 home gain over Albania in a Euro 2020 modifier, and was one of the turkish players who participated in a “ military toast “ finish celebration. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] That lapp day, he published a photograph on Instagram in which he stated support for soldiers involved in the turkish offense into north-eastern Syria. [ 42 ] [ 43 ]

career statistics [edit ]

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As of match played 1 December 2021[44]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Team Season League Cup Europe1 Other2 Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Eintracht Frankfurt 2009–10 Bundesliga 1 0 0 0 1 0
Total 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Gaziantepspor 2010–11 Süper Lig 14 10 4 2 18 12
2011–12 32 6 1 1 4 0 6 5 43 12
2012–13 32 10 3 1 35 11
2013–14 31 13 1 1 32 14
Total 109 39 9 5 4 0 6 5 128 49
Beşiktaş 2014–15 Süper Lig 18 5 2 3 8 1 28 9
2015–16 29 8 8 7 6 2 43 17
2016–17 33 20 1 0 12 4 1 0 47 24
2017–18 16 8 1 1 6 4 1 1 24 14
Total 96 41 12 11 32 11 2 1 142 64
Everton 2017–18[45] Premier League 14 5 0 0 0 0 14 5
2018–19[46] 25 3 2 1 2 0 29 4
2019–20[47] 5 1 0 0 3 0 8 1
2020–21[48] 5 0 2 1 0 0 7 1
2021–22[49] 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Total 50 9 4 2 0 0 5 0 59 11
Crystal Palace (loan) 2019–20[47] Premier League 5 1 5 1
Beşiktaş (loan) 2020–21 Süper Lig 3 3 1 0 4 3
Career total 264 93 26 18 36 11 13 6 339 128

1European competitions include the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. 2Includes other competitive competitions, including the turkish Super Cup, Spor Toto Cup, and the EFL Cup

International [edit ]

Statistics accurate as of match played on 18 November 2020[50][51]
Turkey
Year Apps Goals
2013 1 0
2014 0 0
2015 4 1
2016 11 2
2017 9 5
2018 10 3
2019 7 5
2020 3 2
Total 45 18

International goals [edit ]

Scores and results list, Turkey goal tally first.[50]

Honours [edit ]

Gaziantepspor
Beşiktaş

References [edit ]