Tunay Acar

Tunay Acar — Biography

Tunay Acar is a Turkish former footballer who played as a full-back, born on 30 April 1989 in Wiesbaden, Germany, to a Turkish working-class family; he holds German citizenship alongside his Turkish nationality. He began playing football with FV Biebrich 02 before moving into SV Wehen Wiesbaden's youth system, from where he was brought into the club's reserve side, SV Wehen Wiesbaden II. He made his official debut on 16 August 2008, in a Regionalliga Süd match against SpVgg Unterhaching II, and soon became a regular starter.

In the 2009-10 season he played for the first team in the 3. Liga alongside the reserve side, and he spent the 2010-11 season with Regionalliga Süd club SV Darmstadt 98. At the start of the 2011-12 season he was transferred to Süper Lig club Bursaspor, but was not yet considered ready for the first team there and was loaned out for a season to Second League side Adana Demirspor to gain playing experience.

At international level Acar was called up six times in total, twice for the Turkey under-20 team and four times for the under-21 side, earning six caps overall. After a career spent on the flanks of the defence, he retired from active football.