Cansu Yağ is a Turkish women"s football midfielder currently playing in the Turkish Women"s First Football League for Konak Belediyespor in İzmir with jersey number 7.
Background
Cansu Yağ was born on June 22, 1990 in Mönchengladbach to Turkish parents living in Germany. Her father, a professional football player in Turkey, who continued his sports career also in Germany, took Cansu to football matches since she was two years old. At the age of six, her father registered her in the club he played.
Career
She was admitted to the Turkey women"s national football team in 2006 after playing for the national U-15, U-17 and U-19 teams. The first seven years, Cansu played football in mixed-gender teams. In the first 13 years of her career, she was with four clubs.
In Germany, she played in the Fußball-Regionalliga der Frauen, and was lately in the squad of FSC Mönchengladbach.
Club
After graduating from Gymnasium Rheindahlen in Mönchengladbach, she moved to Turkey to attend university. There, she enrolled in the Trakya University in Edirne to study physical education and sports.
In August 2012, Yağ was transferred by Konak Belediyespor. At FSC Mönchengladbach, she helped to her team"s success by scoring goals many times.
Yağ continued scoring at Lüleburgaz 39 Spor, and Konak Belediyespor as well.
In the 2012-2013 season, at which she scored three goals in total, she experienced the Turkish league championship. Playing in the 2013-2014 Union of European Football Associations Women"s Champions League, her team completed the qualifying round as group leader, and passed the Round of 32, failed however to reach the quarterfinals by losing the two matches in the Round of 16 against the Austrian side SV Neulengbach. International
Already at the age of 14 and still living in Germany, she was selected to the Turkey girls" U-15 national team, and travelled for this reason to Turkey to take part at the training camps and international matches.
After playing in the national U-17 and U-19 teams, she was admitted to the Turkish women"s national team in 2006.
She had preferred to play for the Turkey national rather than for the German. Cansu Yağ played at the 2008 Union of European Football Associations Women"s U-19 Championship First qualifying round matches against the teams from Poland, Austria and Bulgaria, scoring a goal in the last match.
In the Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 2009 qualifying match against Georgia, she shot one of the nine goals. Yağ scored two goals against Malta and one goal againsy Austria in the 2011 Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup qualification – Union of European Football Associations Group 5 matches in April 2010.
Membership
She played for Trabzonspor until its closure, and then became a member of the women"s football club Lüleburgaz 39 Spor in October 2011, which was promoted to the Turkish Women"s First Football League.