Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu

Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu was born to Şeref, a Turkish immigrant father, and Susanne, a German mother, in Troisdorf, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on 8 June 1998.^[1] She has a younger brother, Timur, who also plays football.^[2]

Sucuoğlu attended realschule in Heimbach for her secondary education. She was successful in maths and sports at school, and planned a career in sport psychology.^[2]

Sucuoğlu holds Turkish-German dual citizenship through her Turkish father and German mother.^[2]

Sucuoğlu began playing football at the age of five inspired by her father, who was the coach of the under-10 team SF Troisdorf.^[2] She played with boys in the team.^[2] Her father went on to coach the junior teams of IKV Eitorf 1984,^[3] and SV Umutspor Troisdorf.^[4] He supported Dilara Özlem continuing to play football.^[2]

Between 2011 and 2013, Sucuoğlu played in the B-Juniors Mittelrheinliga for the U-17 team of SV Menden 1912 in Sankt Augustin, although she belonged to the C-Juniors division due to her age.^[2] She was capped 16 times and scored two goals for them.^{[5][citation needed]} In 2013, she transferred to the U-17 team of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. She played in 29 matches and scored a goal in the Women's Under 17 Bundesliga West/Southwest (B-Juniorinnen Bundesliga West/Südwest) until 2015.^[6][7]

Currently, she is a member of SV Menden 1912 playing as a midfielder in the Women's Regional League West (Frauen-Regionalliga-West).^{[8][citation needed]}

Sucuoğlu was discovered by the Turkish national team during a tournament in Germany. She was admitted to the Turkey girls' U-17 team. She had difficulties communicating with the Turkish officials and players as she could not speak Turkish at all.^[2] She debuted on 8 April 2013 for the Turkey U-17 team in the match against France during the International Women's Under-17 Tournament in Madrid. She was capped for six games in the U-17s.^[1][2]

In November 2017, Sucuoğlu was named to the Turkey women's team.^[9] However, she did not appear in the friendly match played against Jordan.^[1] On 7 April 2018 Sucuoğlu made her first appearance for the national team in the friendly match against the Estonia women's national football team.^[10]