Gürhan Gürsoy

Gürhan Gürsoy — Biography

Gürhan Gürsoy, born on September 24, 1987, in Kardzhali, Bulgaria, is a retired Turkish footballer who stood 1.70 m and played as an attacking midfielder. He started at Rodopi Momchilgrad and then played for Arda 1924 in Kardzhali. When his family moved to Sweden he joined Norrköping. He signed for Adanaspor in 2002 as the youngest player in the league at the time.

Ahead of 2004-05 he signed a three-year contract with Fenerbahçe. His first official match for the club was the Turkish Cup second-round tie at Uşakspor on December 22, 2004, in which he played the last 28 minutes. At a tournament with the Turkey U-17 side he won the admiration of Portugal national team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari. He was loaned to Sivasspor in 2006 and to Antalyaspor on July 11, 2009, and the press remembered him for a title-clinching goal in 2007.

In 2010 Fenerbahçe did not renew his contract and he moved to Ankaraspor. In 2011-12 he played for Göztepe in the First League but was left out of the squad on November 15, 2011, and trained with the A2 team. In 2012-13 he transferred to the TFF 2. Lig club Hatayspor. After playing in the lower divisions he retired. He earned 42 caps for the Turkey A youth team, scoring 14 goals, and 4 for the B youth team.