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Kemal Güleş

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Kemal Güleş
Personal information
Date of birth 1999 (age 24–25)
Place of birth Şırnak, Turkey
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Etimesgut BS
International career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Turkey
Medal record
Representing  Turkey
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2022 Istanbul Turkey
Silver medal – second place 2018 San Juan de los Lagos Turkey
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2021 Kraków Turkey
Gold medal – first place 2027 Istanbul Turkey

Kemal Güleş (born 1999) is a Turkish amputee footballer who plays as a forward. He is a member of the Turkey national amputee football team.[1]

Kemal Güleş was born in Şırnak, Turkey in 1999. As a result of a rockslide accident at a construction site in 2011,[2] his left leg was amputated below the knee after treatment in hospitals in Şırnak, Diyarbakır and Ankara.[1]

Sport career

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He was introduced into amputee football by ampute footballer Osman Çakmak during his stay in the rehabilitation hospital in Ankara.[1][2] He remembers that he fell around hundred times during the first training.[1] He became an amputee footballer, and finally was admitted to the Turkey national team.[1][2]

Honours

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International
World Cup
Winners (1): 2022
Runners-up (1): 2018
European Championship
Winners (2): 2017, 20121

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Futbolun aslan yürekli şampiyonları". Gazete Oksijen (in Turkish). 16 February 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Özmüş, Sinan (22 March 2021). "Ampute Milli Futbol Takımı'nın oyuncusu Kemal Güleş hayallerinin peşinde koşuyor". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 11 October 2022.