Name: Tanju Çolak
Country:
TurkeyClub: Galatasaray SK
Position: *CF, SS
Side: RF/BS
Age: 24-28 years (10/11/1963)
Height: 170 cm
Weight: 72 kg
Attack: 88
Defence: 39
Balance: 79
Stamina: 78
Top Speed: 81
Acceleration: 84
Response: 95
Agility: 83
Dribble Accuracy: 79
Dribble Speed: 82
Short Pass Accuracy: 76
Short Pass Speed: 73
Long Pass Accuracy: 71
Long Pass Speed: 73
Shot Accuracy: 88
Shot Power: 82
Shot Technique: 92
Free Kick Accuracy: 83
Curling: 86
Header: 90
Jump: 83
Technique: 82
Aggression: 93
Mentality: 74
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 73
Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 7
Weak Foot Frequency: 6
Consistency: 5
Growth Type: Standard
CARDS:
P15: Goal Poacher
S01: Reaction
S03: 1-on-1 Finish
S05: 1-touch Play
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Positioning - 1 touch Pass - Scoring - Lines - Reaction - 1on1 Scoring
Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded
INFO
Tanju Çolak (born 10 November 1963) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a forward. Very effective striker with impressive positioning and opportunism inside the box. He was technically sound with great shooting technique. Scored some great overhead and volley goals, good free kick taker and very explosive on the short distance. Despite the short size he scored a lot goals with his head, he didn't have particularly high leap but his heading technique and precision was excellent. Coming from a modest background, the young talent made a name for himself wearing the jersey of Samsunspor, the club of his hometown. In 1986, he finished third as the best goal scorer on the Old Continent with 33 goals, behind Marco Van Basten and Oleh Protasov, but tied with the Austrian Anton Polster. These performances took him to the best club in the country, Galatasaray. Skillful with both feet, with an excellent header, he exploded in his first season with a Turkish championship title alongside Didier Six. But that year, he especially won the European Golden Shoe trophy, with 39 goals in 38 games. It was he who brought down George Weah and Jean-Luc Ettori 's AS Monaco, managed by Arsène Wenger, in the quarter-finals of the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1989, before being eliminated by Steaua Bucharest in the semi-finals. A shooting star of football who only shone for a short time before falling back into anonymity. The time to become the best scorer in the history of the Turkish championship with 240 goals scored. A record that would be beaten fifteen years later by the emblematic Hakan Sükür who successfully succeeded him in the role of Turkey's designated scorer. Moreover, the author of 9 goals in 31 caps would never have participated in a major international competition. Indeed, the selection would not be present in the major tournaments until after the best years of Tanju Çolak.