Taşkın Aksoy

Taşkın Aksoy — Biography

Taşkın Aksoy was born on June 13, 1967, in West Berlin and is a German-Turkish former footballer and football manager. He began at Hertha BSC, making his first appearance in the third-tier Berlin league in 1986-87 and winning promotion to the 2. Bundesliga with the club. At 22 he came to Turkey to join Boluspor, debuting against Beşiktaş on September 3, 1989. He moved to Türkiyemspor Berlin in 1991 and to Tennis Borussia Berlin in 1993, reaching the German Cup semi-final with them and scoring 11 goals in 115 games over four seasons. He then played for Kocaelispor in 1997-98, was loaned to Kayserispor in 1998-99 and scored twice in 32 second-division games. After returning to Tennis Borussia he ended his career at the Berlin Turkish club SV Yeşilyurt.

He took his coaching license in 2003 and began with Tennis Borussia's under-17s before moving up to the under-19s. In 2007 he earned his UEFA license and took over a fourth-division side in Berlin. He managed Türkiyemspor Berlin from 2009 and left in 2010. From 2012-13 he coached Fortuna Düsseldorf's reserve team, and on April 13, 2015, he was named interim coach of the first team. In 2022 he led Gençlerbirliği through a relegation battle, and the club parted ways with him in early November 2022.