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İrfan Buz

İrfan Buz

Turkish footballer and manager

İrfan Buz (born 15 April 1967) is a Turkish football manager and former player who currently manages Şanlıurfaspor.

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Professional career

Buz moved to Germany in 1971 with his family, and graduated as a construction technician from the Technical University of Dortmund. He began playing amateur football with Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid, before playing professional in Turkey.[1] Buz joined Sarıyer S.K. in the Süper Lig in 1989, but only made 1 appearance over 2 years.[2]

Irfan Buz 2010

Managerial career

After his footballing career, Buz began working as a football manager. He transitioned as player manager for the amateur German club Barışspor Hackenberg. From 1999-2008, he served a youth coach in for the German Football Association. He managed the German club SpVg Olpe from 2009 to 2013 and got attention from the Turkish Süper Lig.[3] In 2013 he briefly joined FC Iserlohn 46/49 before moving to Bursaspor.[4]

Buz was appointed assistant coach of Bursaspor in 2013 and became the head coach on 26 March 2014.[5] He then went to manage Gençlerbirliği on 23 September 2014.[6] He then spent a couple years at Yeni Malatyaspor, who he helped promoted to the Süper Lig in his final season with them.[7] In 2017, he became the manager of Osmanlıspor, who were relegated at the end of the season.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "İrfan Buz". Sabah.
  2. [2]
    Bursaspor. "Bursaspor Kulübü Resmi Televizyonu". www.bursasportv.com. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. [3]
    Germany, RevierSport, Essen. "WL 2: Olpes Buz lehnte Angebot aus der Süper Lig ab".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. [4]
    "Irfan Buz wird Co-Trainer von Christoph Daum". 14 August 2013.
  5. [5]
    "Bursaspor'da İrfan Buz dönemi - Akşam". 26 March 2014.
  6. [6]
    "Gençler'de Buz devri!".
  7. [7]
    fanatik (30 May 2018). "Yeni Malatyaspor İrfan Buz'la yolları ayırdı". Fanatik.
  8. [8]
    "Yeni hoca kim olacak?".
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