Onur Doğan

Onur Doğan is a striker who was born in Çanakkale, became a citizen of Taiwan and plays for the Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) national team. His name in Taiwan is Chu En-Le (朱恩樂). He is known as the first foreign-born, later naturalized football player to wear the country's national jersey.

Career

Born on September 8, 1987 in Çanakkale, Doğan started playing football in Türkiye and played for local clubs, including Çanakkale Dardanelspor, in the second half of the 2000s. He moved to Taiwan in 2009 and quickly became one of the goalscorers of Tatung FC. He won the Intercity Football League championship with Tatung in 2013.

He received citizenship of the Republic of China in 2014 and was called up to the national team the same year. He played his first national match against Guam in November 2014. In the following years, he also played in the Asian Cup qualifiers; He played more than twenty matches in the national team and scored goals.

Doğan, whose club career also extended to China, played for Meizhou Hakka in the 2016-2017 period. He later returned to Tatung FC and won the Taiwan Premier League titles with the team in 2018 and 2019. After 2020, he also played for other Taiwanese clubs, especially Taichung Futuro.

Doğan is remembered as one of the rare players who came from Türkiye and left a mark on Taiwanese football at both club and national team levels.