İbrahim Akın

İbrahim Akın — Biography

İbrahim Akın is a left winger who grew up in İzmir, rose from Altay to Beşiktaş and later closed his career at the club that raised him. He won the Turkish Cup and the Super Cup with Beşiktaş and played nine times for the Turkey national team. After retiring in 2019 he joined Altay's management.

He is the son of former Göztepe goalkeeper Erdoğan Akın. He started in 1996 with the Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports team and moved to Altay's academy three years later. He joined Beşiktaş in 2004, scoring 13 league goals in 74 games over three seasons, and on May 14, 2006, his goal away at Trabzonspor was the club's 2,500th in the Süper Lig. In 2007-08 he moved to İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor, where he scored 24 goals in 94 games and reached the Turkish Cup final. He signed for Gaziantepspor in the 2011-12 winter window and, when his contract was terminated in the 2014-15 midseason, went to Sivasspor under his former coach Sergen Yalçın. On the last day of the 2016-17 transfer window he returned to Altay.

After 2006 he was not called up for the national team for four years, until a friendly against the Netherlands on November 17, 2010. He retired on August 14, 2019, and worked at Altay alongside the sporting director, responsible for the club's foreign players.