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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1950-06-10)10 June 1950 (age 75) | ||
| Place of birth | Eskişehir, Turkey | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Eskişehir Işıkspor | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1972 | Uşakspor | ||
| 1972–1976 | Bursaspor | 76 | (1) |
| 1976–1984 | Beşiktaş | 130 | (3) |
| International career | |||
| 1975–1978 | Turkey | 9 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1986 | Antalyaspor (assistant) | ||
| 1986 | Antalyaspor | ||
| 1988–1989 | Uzunköprüspor | ||
| 1990–1996 | Turkey (assistant) | ||
| 1996–1997 | Beşiktaş | ||
| 1997–1998 | Bursaspor | ||
| 1998–1999 | Dardanelspor | ||
| 2000 | Çaykur Rizespor | ||
| 2000 | Kocaelispor | ||
| 2001–2002 | Yozgatspor | ||
| 2002–2003 | Ottawa Wizards | ||
| 2005–2006 | Khazar Lankaran | ||
| 2006–2007 | Qarabağ | ||
| 2008 | Khazar Lankaran | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Rasim Kara (born 10 June 1950) is a Turkish formerfootball player and manager. Agoalkeeper, he played forBursaspor,Beşiktaş and theTurkey national team.
Born inEskişehir, Kara began playing as a goalkeeper with the youth side of Eskişehir Işıkspor. He would later joinUşakspor andBursaspor. During his tenure with Bursaspor, he was promoted to the national team.[1] He reached his peak of career with joining Beşiktaş in the 1975–76 season where he will have spent his nine years. He achieved theTurkish League title in the 1981–82 season. Kara retired football in 1984.
Kara played for Turkey in theUEFA Euro 1976 qualifying rounds.[2]
Kara trainedAntalyaspor[3] prior to his vice-coaching tasks withSepp Piontek andFatih Terim subsequently for the Turkey national team. Most notably, he contributed the success of team accessing theEuro 96 for the very first time in history. Following this achievement, he was hired by Beşiktaş as team coach.
Whilst his one-season period with Beşiktaş in 1996–97, Kara showed some decent displays as team had competed for the title for the last week just afterGalatasaray. Team also broke the "top average scoring per year" record, with creating one of the best performances in European cups. Despite this successful season, Kara had to leave the team. After that, he ownedBursaspor,Çanakkale Dardanelspor,Çaykur Rizespor,Kocaelispor within short terms.
Kara also coached abroad. He coached Canadian sideOttawa Wizards and led the team for a league title.[4] Then he moved to Azerbaijan, east neighbour of Turkey for coachingFK Khazar Lenkoran. He was in charge for two years there before he signed forFK Qarabağ. He unexpectedly left FK Qarabağ a week before the start of the 2008–09 season, despite having one-year contract with the club and moved back to his former teamFK Khazar Lenkoran. Has been penalized for his attitude by Football Federation of AzerbaijanAFFA and forced to pay compensation to his former club.
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