About Hakan Yakin
Hakan Yakin is a Swiss professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Swiss Challenge League side FC Schaffhausen. He spent the majority of his playing career as a forward or attacking midfielder in the Swiss top flight with brief forays abroad. He represented Switzerland national team for eleven years, garnering 87 caps and scoring 20 goals. At the end of the 2001–02 season Yakin won the national Double with Basel and a year later won the Swiss Cup again. Jakob-Park on 19 April 2003, Yakin had a good game and scored a perfect hat-trick during the first half of the game as Basel won 3–0 against Young Boys. He was brought on in the 60th minute as replacement for Alexandre Rey and with his first touch of the ball, just 18 seconds later, he scored the goal to make it 3–0, a header (final score 5–0).
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