Metin Tekin

Metin Tekin — Biography

Metin Tekin is a former Turkish international footballer and coach, and today a football pundit, remembered as one of the best-loved wingers in Beşiktaş history. His pace and fair hair earned him the nickname "Sarı Fırtına" (Blond Storm), and the "Metin-Ali-Feyyaz" attacking trio he formed with Ali Gültiken and Feyyaz Uçar is regarded as the symbol of the club's most successful era. He won 14 trophies with Beşiktaş, among the most for any player there, and was named to the club's centenary golden eleven in 2003.

He started out in the Kocaelispor youth system and moved to Beşiktaş before reaching the first team. In 1982-83 he caught attention by scoring both goals in a 2-2 Donanma Kupası match against Galatasaray. He played mostly on the right wing, standing out for his crosses from the byline and for the surging run known as the "fuleli depar". Between 1982 and 1997 he scored 77 goals in 340 league matches for Beşiktaş and won five league titles between 1982 and 1995. In 1997 he spent half a season on loan at Vanspor during his military service before taking his testimonial in a Beşiktaş shirt. He earned 37 caps for the senior national team and scored twice.

After leaving the pitch he first worked as an assistant to Erdoğan Arıca at Samsunspor, Gaziantepspor, Malatyaspor and Gençlerbirliği, and then managed Dardanelspor and Altay. From 2005 to 2009 he was Fatih Terim's assistant with the national team. In 2011 he briefly took the post of director of the youth national teams, then turned to punditry and column writing.