From Lotte to Helmond Sport
Right-back Emir Terzi won the B and A youth championships with Borussia Dortmund and played in the UEFA Youth League (7 appearances) – but it wasn’t enough to make the leap to the BVB men’s team. After six months without a club, the 21-year-old from Krefeld signed with Sportfreunde Lotte in January 2021 – now that his contract with the regional league club has expired, he has switched to Helmond Sport in the second Dutch league. “I am very happy to have made the leap into a professional league again after the season in the Regionalliga West with Lotte,” says Terzi in an interview with Transfermarkt.
Terzi was a regular at Sportfreunde all the time, scoring two goals in 58 competitive games and providing nine more assists. He is now tackling the Keuken Kampioen Divisie challenge with great motivation: “The league is brutally difficult this season because so many big clubs have been relegated from the Eredivisie.” In addition to the youth teams Ajax Amsterdam II and PSV Eindhoven II, others will be playing there in 2022/23 the relegated Heracles Almelo, Willem II Tilburg or PEC Zwolle. Helmond was last in the table last year – but according to the regulations, relegation is only possible if a license to advance from the 3rd division is applied for in good time. This didn’t happen.
Now there are 16 new players in coach Sven Swinnen’s team – including Terzi, who recommended a one-year contract with an option after several weeks of trial training with friendlies against RSC Anderlecht, among others. At Transfermarkt, he is grateful for the opportunity: “I would like to thank my family, who have always been there for me, and of course my Prime11 agency, who opened the door to Helmond Sport and gave me great support all the time Has.”
He gets on “very well” with the team and the coaching team – and would now like to recommend himself to the community in Noord-Brabant for further tasks: “I will throw myself into it, do everything to make the leap over Holland again. I was very unlucky after my time at BVB, but I was also able to learn a lot from it. I’m just looking ahead.”
© DDS – Emir Terzi at his presentation with the jersey from Helmond Sport
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