Dutch professional footballer (born 1990)
Attila Yıldırım (born 22 November 1990) is a Turkish-Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Tarsus İdman Yurdu.
Career
Yıldırım has played club football in the Netherlands and Turkey for Utrecht, Kasımpaşa and Konyaspor.[1][2][3] He signed his first professional contract at FC Utrecht's Paf team and was soon included in the first team squad. He made his first official appearance for the first team in the 2010-11 season on January 19, 2011 in the Eredivisie match against VVV-Venlo. In this first match, he scored his first goal in the Eredivisie. In the following weeks of the season, he took part in two more matches.[4]
On June 18, 2011, it was announced that he would be transferred to Sivasspor, one of the Super League teams.[5] This transfer did not materialize afterwards and he was transferred to Kasımpaşa, a 1st League team. He made his first official appearance for Kasımpaşa in the Ligue 1 match against Denizlispor on September 25, 2011.[6] In August 2012, he was transferred to Torku Konyaspor.
In August 2018, it was announced that he transferred to Sumgayit FK, one of the Azerbaijan Premier League teams.[7]
Personal life
Yildirim was born in Germany to a Turkish family from Sivas. He moved to the Netherlands at a young age, and joined the AFC Ajax youth academy at the age of 7.[8]
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