Serkan Çalık

Serkan Çalık — Biography

Serkan Çalık is a Turkish-German former footballer, known for his pace and hard long-range shots, who played as a right winger or second striker and was nicknamed the rabbit for how fast he ran. The 1.67 m player won the Süper Lig in 2007-08 and the Süper Kupa in 2008 with Galatasaray.

He began at Borussia Mönchengladbach, played for Rot-Weiss Essen and scored 18 goals in 32 matches in 2006-07, the season before he moved to Galatasaray. He arrived in June 2007 together with Barış Özbek and wore the number 61 shirt. Coach Karl-Heinz Feldkamp used him on the right wing at times even though he was a striker; named by Gerd Müller among the players of the future, Çalık scored 11 goals in 26 games for Galatasaray. A serious injury kept him out for about a year, and in the middle of 2009-10 he moved to Gençlerbirliği on a 2.5-year deal together with Alparslan Erdem.

In July 2012 he agreed terms with first-division Şanlıurfaspor, could not make the squad for the first 13 weeks because of injury and ended his contract at the winter break. At Samsunspor he played 15 games in his first season, and early in 2014 he signed a two-year contract with Yeni Malatyaspor and wore number 11. In later years he also played for clubs including Sarıyer, Kayseri Erciyesspor and Silivrispor. After playing for Germany's under-21 side he told the German football federation he wished to play for Turkey, and he served with Turkey's A2 team.