Ahmet Burak Solakel

Ahmet Burak Solakel — Biography

Ahmet Burak Solakel was born on March 1, 1982, in İzmir and played as a left-back throughout his career in Turkish football. He came through the Bucaspor youth academy and was promoted to the first team in 2000; after two seasons there he moved to Gaziantepspor BŞB and, two seasons later, to Süper Lig side Gaziantepspor. He subsequently played for Adanaspor, Mardinspor and Karşıyaka, spent two seasons at Denizlispor from 2009-2010, and returned to Karşıyaka at the start of the 2011-12 season. Later in his career he also turned out for second-tier side Fethiyespor. He was called up to Turkey's youth national teams 11 times, winning 9 caps in total (1 with the U-16s and 8 with the U-17s) and scoring 1 goal.

His club-hopping continued through the second half of the 2010s: he played for Yeni Malatyaspor in 2016 and Adana Demirspor in 2017. In January 2019 he joined Elazığspor during an unusual transfer window in which the club, having had a transfer embargo lifted, registered 22 players within two hours. He left Elazığspor in July 2020 and rejoined the club in February 2021, repeating the back-and-forth pattern that marked much of his career.