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Hakan Yakin Hakan Yakin ( ; born 22 February 1977 ) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a forward or midfielder . He was a member of the Swiss national team for eleven years . Early and personal life . Yakin was born in Basel , Switzerland , to Turkish parents . He grew up and went to school in suburban Münchenstein , Basel-Landschaft , just outside Basel , and close to the borders of France and Germany . He is the younger brother of international football player Murat Yakin , also a former member of the Swiss national football team , who currently works as a manager . His elder half-brother Ertan Irizik is also a former football professional . Yakins surname is based on the Turkish word Yakın ( meaning close , adjacent ) , however as he is a Swiss resident and citizen , the name which he uses is Yakin . Club career . As a child Yakin played in the youth teams of his local side FC Concordia Basel . He signed his first professional contract with hometown club FC Basel in January 1995 . He played his League debut for Basel on 12 April 1995 in the 1994–95 season in the match against Lausanne Sports . He was brought on in the 60th minute as replacement for Alexandre Rey and with his first touch of the ball , just 18 seconds later , he scored the goal to make it 3–0 , a header ( final score 5–0 ) . After two and a half years in Basel he transferred to Grasshopper Club Zürich , with manager Christian Gross , but could not establish himself , making most of his appearances as substitute , and he was loaned to FC St . Gallen for the second half of the 1997–98 season . He moved immediately into the starting eleven and so the loan was prolonged , before he returned to the Grasshoppers . During January 2001 he transferred back to Basel . At the end of the 2001–02 season Yakin won the national Double with Basel and a year later won the Swiss Cup again . He recalls the 2002–03 Champions League Group B match on 12 November 2002 against Liverpool in St . Jakob-Park as the match of his life . The game was drawn 3–3 and Yakin gave all three assists as Basel cruised to a 3–0 half-time lead as they qualified , one point above Liverpool , for the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League second group stage . Curiosity during the championship play-off round of their 2002–03 season was , that in the home match in the St . Jakob-Park on 19 April 2003 , Yakin had a good game and scored a perfect hat-trick during the first half of the game as Basel won 3–0 against Young Boys.<ref championship></ref> Yakin showed his other side in the return match in the Stadion Neufeld in Bern one week later . As YB went a goal up he lost his temper and kicked the ball away , thus collecting a yellow card . Just ten minutes later a committed a rough foul and collecting a second yellow , thus yellow/red , to be sent-off.<ref championship></ref> His career was then overshadowed by some trouble regarding his club transfers , as his engagements outside Switzerland ( Paris Saint-Germain , VfB Stuttgart , and Galatasaray ) were not accompanied by luck . In 2005–06 , Yakin returned to Switzerland , joining BSC Young Boys . In July 2008 , Yakin signed a contract with Qatar champions Al-Gharafa , for a salary of around €2.5 million per year . In March 2009 , it was reported that Yakin had been training with the Grasshopper Club Zürich Under-21 side , coached by his brother Murat , in a bid to get fit . Yakin then signed a contract on 25 June 2009 in his homeland Switzerland with FC Luzern , running through to 30 June 2011 . In summer 2011 his brother Murat became his manager at FC Luzern . During the mid-season break in January 2012 Yakin transferred to AC Bellinzona in the Challenge League , the second tier of Swiss football . He played his team debut on 26 February in the 2–0 home win against Stade Nyonnais . He scored his first two goals for the club in the 3–2 away win against Aarau on 9 April 2012 . International career . Yakin was capped 87 times for Switzerland , the first coming in 2000 . He was offered Turkish nationality before being called up to the Swiss squad , but turned it down for personal reasons . He has played in UEFA Euro 2004 , UEFA Euro 2008 , and both the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup with his country . On 11 June 2008 , he scored the opening goal in the 32nd minute of Switzerlands second Euro 2008 Group A match against Turkey , giving them a 1–0 lead and he refused to celebrate after the goal as a respect for his familys birth country . However , he missed another chance shortly afterward as Turkey scored two second-half goals , resulting in Switzerlands becoming the first team to be mathematically eliminated from their own tournament within five days of its beginning . However , in Switzerlands final group match against Portugal on 15 June , Yakin added two second-half goals , the second a penalty kick , to secure their first ever win at the UEFA European Championship , 2–0 . Yakin finished the tournament as joint-second highest goalscorer with Lukas Podolski , Roman Pavlyuchenko , and Semih Şentürk with three goals each , behind David Villas four goals . Under new national team coach , Ottmar Hitzfeld , Yakin participated in seven of Switzerlands ten qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup , starting twice , and making five substitute appearances , scoring one goal in Switzerlands opening qualifier against Israel . He announced his retirement from the Swiss national team on 4 October 2011 . Honours . Club . Grasshoppers - Swiss Super League : 2000–01 Basel - Swiss Super League : 2001–02 - Swiss Cup : 2001–02 , 2002–03 - Uhrencup : 2003 Galatasaray - Turkish Cup : 2004–05 Young Boys - Uhrencup : 2007 Individual . - Axpo Swiss Super League Player of the Year : 2003 , 2008 - Swiss Super League top scorer : 2007–08 ( 24 goals ) Notes and references . - References : External links . - Profile at Swiss Football League Website - Official Yakin brothers website - 123 Football profile