Leon Çalışkan

Central Midfielder - Igdir FK
7 Mar 2027
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Marked for Leon Çalışkan

23 Edition

The Igdir FK Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad4 Jan 2027

The knee: Moryké Fofana out for 70 days

70 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Igdir FK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match2 Jan 2027

No end in sight to Igdir FK's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Igdir FK has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Vintage Gianni Bruno — 7.97

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.97, and nobody on the pitch better.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Leon Çalışkan: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Igdir FK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Igdir FK count the cost of losing Ali Şaşal Vural

16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Igdir FK

Ryan Mendes was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Ryan Mendes is slowing down

At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Market4 Jan 2027

Aarón Suárez attracts admirers

The name of Aarón Suárez has come up in conversations Igdir FK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Tsunami gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Igdir FK Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Nov 2026

Moryké Fofana damages knee ligaments — 123 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 123 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad16 Nov 2026

61 days out for Gökcan Kaya after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Igdir FK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Ryan Mendes in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Igdir FK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad16 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Igdir FK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tsunami was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Tsunami

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tsunami, and the manager let it.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Moryké Fofana has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Igdir FK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

Tunahan Ergül faces his old club

Corum FK next, and one man in the Igdir FK dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market16 Nov 2026

The Özder Özcan story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Özder Özcan signs something — a contract at Igdir FK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Moustapha Camara has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Moustapha Camara has written the date down.

In brief

12 Edition

The Igdir FK Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad19 Oct 2026

Gökcan Kaya breaks a bone — 92 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Age has not caught Ryan Mendes yet — 8.07

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.07 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market19 Oct 2026

Tsunami wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad19 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Leon Çalışkan

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Igdir FK

Robin Yalçın was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Time is catching up with Leandro Bacuna

Everybody at Igdir FK saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Match17 Oct 2026

Igdir FK see off Boluspor

Three points for Igdir FK, 2‑1 the final word against Boluspor in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Match17 Oct 2026

Igdir FK hit back inside 2 minutes

Boluspor held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Igdir FK answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

A satisfied Selcuk Ucar

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Selcuk Ucar could afford to be generous.

In brief