Hasan Ahmet Sarı

Hasan Ahmet Sarı — Biography

Hasan Ahmet Sarı is a forward who came through the Trabzonspor youth system and spent much of his career in the lower divisions of Turkish football. He was born in Şişli, moved with his family to Trabzon after the 1999 earthquake and began playing football there. As a youth he represented Turkey at age-group level from U-16 up to U-21, and played in the European Championship final tournaments with the U-17 and U-19 teams.

He started out by winning a place in Trabzonspor's youth trials and, after many years in the academy, signed his first professional contract with the club on April 3, 2009. He was promoted to the first-team squad for 2009-10 and made his Süper Lig debut as a substitute away at Kasımpaşa on November 22, 2009. He was loaned to the local side 1461 Trabzon, scoring 7 goals in 15 games, and agreed a new five-year contract with Trabzonspor in June 2011. In later years he played for Batman Petrolspor, Giresunspor, Fethiyespor and Manisaspor, and Malatya Yeşilyurt Belediyespor and Bulvarspor are also among his clubs. At Batman Petrolspor the supporters knew him by the nickname 'Bombacı Hasan'.

His international path began with the Turkey U-16s in 2007. At the 2009 European U-17 Championship final tournament he played all three group games and scored against Germany, though Turkey went out in the group stage. He scored against Iceland in the qualifying round of the 2011 European U-19 Championship and played all three matches at the final tournament in Romania, where Turkey finished third in Group B and were eliminated.