Place of birth Cologne, Germany 2013– Bergisch Gladbach 09 2004–2008 Fortuna Koln Name Esra Tezkan | Years Team 2008–2013 Bayer 04 Leverkusen | |
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Date of birth (1993-02-23) February 23, 1993 (age 22) | ||
Current team SV Bergisch Gladbach 09 | ||
Esra Sibel Tezkan, aka Sibel Tezkan, (born February 23, 1993) is a Turkish-German female football defender currently playing in the German Women's Regional League of the Middle Rhine for 1. FFC Bergisch Gladbach 2009. She is part of the Turkey women's national football team.
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Family life
Esra Sibel Tezkan was born to a Turkish immigrant father and a German mother in Bremerhaven, Germany on February 23, 1993. She was supported in playing football by her father, a professor of geophysics at the University of Cologne, who is an amateur footballer as well. She has two older brothers, the one being footballer and the other performing athletics.
Playing career
Her father took Esra Sibel to football matches always he was playing. So, she got interested in football at her very early age. She began playing football with boys since no girls were available to play with. At age five, her father registered Esra Sibel to a club, where she had to play again with boys. After six years when she became eleven, she was transferred by the women's side of SC Fortuna Köln in her hometown, where she started to play football among girls. She finds that her time of playing with boys had contributed very positive on her strength.
Club
After playing four years for SC Fortuna Köln, Tezkan moved at age fifteen to Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
In the 2013–14 season, she signed for 1. FFC Bergisch Gladbach 2009, where she currently plays in the Frauen-Mittelrheinliga (Women's League of the Middle Rhine).
International
Tezkan was discovered for the Turkey women's national team by Bilgin Defterli, a Turkish women's footballer, who moved from Turkey to Germany for her professional football career only.
Esra Sibel Tezkan was admitted to the Turkey girls' U-17 team debuting in the International Women's Football Friendship Tournament against Bulgaria on June 27, 2010. She capped four times in total for the Turkey girls' U-17 team.
On September 11, 2010, she appeared first time in the Turkey women's U-19 team playing at the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship First qualifying round – Group 9 match against Romania. She took part at the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship Second qualifying round – Group 3, 2011 Kuban Spring Tournament and 2012 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship – Group A matches. She capped in thirteen games of the Turkey women's U-19 team.
Tezcan played once for the Turkey women's U-21 team in the friendly match against Belgium on November 26, 2014.
On February 26, 2015, she took part at the friendly game of the Turkey women's team against Georgia. Tezkan played at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying Group 5 matches for Turkeywomen's national.