Gökhan Güleç

Gökhan Güleç — Biography

Gökhan Güleç is one of the few players who moved from the football pitch into the technology world. A forward who won two Turkish Cups and a Super Cup with Beşiktaş, he retired in 2015 and in 2017 became general manager of Qualcomm Türkiye.

Born in İnegöl and of Albanian origin, he began his professional career at İnegölspor. He spent two seasons on the bench at Gaziantepspor; Jean Tigana, who liked his play in the youth national team, signed him for Beşiktaş in January 2006 on Fatih Terim's advice. With the black-and-whites he won the Turkish Cup in 2005-06 and 2006-07 and the Super Cup. With Ertuğrul Sağlam's arrival he was loaned to Denizlispor in 2007-08 and terminated his contract before the season ended after problems with the club. He signed for Bursaspor in 2008 at the same time as Emrah Kiraz and moved to Kasımpaşa in 2009-10, where his contract was extended to 2012 in 2010. In autumn 2009 he scored the opening goal in his team's surprise 3-1 away win at Fenerbahçe, and he scored six goals in five matches in the first half of that season. In December 2012 he went to Khazar Lankaran in Azerbaijan, scoring twice in 13 matches, and also played for Şanlıurfaspor. For Turkey's under-20 and under-21 sides he made 16 appearances and scored four goals.

After leaving football he turned to the software and IT sector and took over as general manager of Qualcomm Türkiye.