Engin Özdemir (born 1 October 1968) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder and winger. He is best known for playing for Gençlerbirliği. He is also the father of YouTuber CaniSports.
Club career Özdemir started playing for SV 07 Raunheim at the age of 10, before joining Mainz 05, who at the time were playing in the Oberliga Südwest, nine years later. During his two-year stay, he played 23 matches in all competitions, scoring 11 and getting 1 assist and helped Mainz gain promotion to the 2. Bundesliga for the 1988–89 season.
He then joined Türkgücü München, who were playing in the Landesliga Bayern-Süd. Before leaving in November 1992, Özdemir playing 12 games, scoring 11 times in the 1992–93 season.
Özdemir made four appearances at the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup, scoring four goals. However, Gençlerbirliği finished third in their group and so failed to progress. With İstanbulspor, he played six times and scored one goal at the 1997 Intertoto Cup.
International career Özdemir made his international debut for Turkey on 9 April 1996 in a friendly against Azerbaijan, in which Turkey won 1–0. He played again in a subsequent friendly on 1 May against Ukraine, where Turkey won 3–2.
Coaching career Özdemir was player-coach of SV Dersim Ruesselsheim from July 2009 until December 2009. From 2010 until December 2012, he was a player-coach for FV Biebrich.
From 2013 until 2014, he was the youth team coach for TSG 1846 Mainz-Kastel. Özdemir was the head coach of the Yeni Malatyaspor youth team from October 2015 until August 2016, where he was made assistant manager of the senior team until May 2017. He was the assistant coach of Eskişehirspor from August 2018 until May 2019. In January 2021, he became the manager of Çatalcaspor, who are in the TFF 3. Lig.
Career statistics
Club +Appearances and goals by club, season and competitionClubSeasonLeagueCup Continental TotalDivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsMainz 051987–88Oberliga6020––801998–892. Bundesliga00––––00Türkgücü München1998–89Landesliga––––1989–90––––1990–91––––1991–92––––1992–931211––––1211Gençlerbirliği1992–931. LigNamed respectively as Milli Lig between 1959–1962, Türkiye 1. Futbol Ligi (1. Lig) between 1962–2000, and Süper Lig from 2001 to present161––––1611993–94294––––2941994–95331010––34101995–96311031453816İstanbulspor1996–971. Lig28211––2931997–9827230613631998–9960––––601999–200051––––512000–017111––82Adanaspor (loan)1998–991. Lig2000––20Adanaspor (loan)1999–20001. Lig18310––193Diyarbakırspor2000–012. Lig146––––146Gençlerbirliği2001–02Süper Lig20––––20Antalyaspor2001–02Süper Lig81––––812001-011. Lig101––––101Career total2364210310626862
International +Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoalsTurkey199620Total20
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