Barış Memiş

Barış Memiş — Biography

Barış Memiş is an attacking midfielder from Akçaabat who came through the Trabzonspor academy; he is also remembered for being given the number 61, the city code of Trabzon, in 2008-09. He was in the Trabzonspor squad for the 2009-10 Turkish Cup and the 2010 Super Cup.

He was spotted by coach Salim Doğan at school trials and signed a youth contract in 2002. After the first half of the season with the reserve side he was promoted to the first team at the 2007-08 winter camp at Ersun Yanal's request; his first official match was a Turkish Cup tie against MKE Kırıkkalespor on 4 January 2008, in which he scored a minute after coming on. He scored his first league goal against Kasımpaşa, finished the season with 2 goals in 15 matches, and his goal against Denizlispor was voted goal of the year on a fan site. He later gave up the number 61 and wore 11.

In 2010-11 he was loaned to Karşıyaka, and in 2012 he joined 1461 Trabzon, scoring 14 goals with 12 assists in 48 matches. Back at Trabzonspor he was left out of the squad by Halilhodžić and in August 2014 moved to Kayseri Erciyesspor under Bülent Korkmaz. In later years he played for Adanaspor, for Erzurumspor from January 2017, and for Eskişehirspor, Eyüpspor and Sarıyer. He played for every Turkey youth team from U-15 to U-21.