Hasan Okan Gültang

Hasan Okan Gültang — Biography

Hasan Okan Gültang is a former goalkeeper remembered as the first-choice keeper of the national team that won the 1993 Mediterranean Games. He came through the Gençlerbirliği academy, changed clubs many times and was counted among the most-transferred footballers in Turkey, though he never played for any of the country's four biggest clubs. After his playing days he moved into coaching.

His national-team path began in the youth ranks: he wore the under-21 shirt twice and the Olympic team shirt five times. He was Rüştü Reçber's backup in qualifying for the 1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship and, with the senior side, Engin İpekoğlu's backup in qualifying for Euro 1996. He played for the senior national team against Israel on 8 March 1995; some sources give the number of senior appearances as five.