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Filiz Koç (born 6 October 1986 in Ankara, Turkey), aka Filiz Heilmann or Filiz Heilmann Koç, is a Turkish-German women's football midfielder, currently playing in the Turkish Women's First League for 1207 Antalya Muratpaşa Belediye Spor with jersey number 13. She is a member of the Turkey women's team. She also has a media career as model, beauty pageant contestant, actress and sideline reporter. Filiz Koç was born to a Turkish father and a German mother in Ankara, Turkey on 6 October 1986. Her father, Savaş Koç, played football for the Turkish Süper Lig-team Galatasaray SK between 1986 and 1990. Her national-footballer father met his later wife during a football match in Munich. The couple married in Turkey, but moved to Germany when Filiz was three years old. where her father continued his football career playing for the Bundesliga team Hannover 96. At age 16, she was naturalized in Germany, holding now dual citizenship. In her early years, she preferred to be called after her mother's family name "Heilmann" hoping so to have more opportunities. Later on, however, she began using her father's surname "Koç". She began football playing in 1997 at age eleven, entering the German club TSV Havelse based near Hanover. The next season, she moved to Mellendorfer TV, and enjoyed in 2008 her team's promotion to the Group North of 2nd Women's Bundesliga (German: 2. Frauen-Bundesliga Nord). In 2009, she transferred to another 2nd-League-team FFC Oldesloe 2000, where she briefly played. In the 2011–12 season, she rejoined her first team TSV Havelse in the Women's Regional League North (German: Fußball-Regionalliga Nord Frauen). In September 2015, she moved in a loan-out contract to the Turkish club 1207 Antalya Muratpaşa Belediye Spor, which had finished the 2014–15 season in the Turkish Women's Second League as champion, and was so promoted to the Women"s First League. Filiz Koç acts as a model, and appears in advertisings. Representing Turkey, she became runner-up "Miss EM" (EM is the German language abbreviation for European Championship) among 16 contestants ranking after Domenica Huzvarova from the Czech Republic at a beauty pageant held at Europa-Park, Germany on the occasion of the UEFA Euro 2008. In June 2011, Filiz Koç performed the role of "Fadime Gülüc", a murdered fictional German woman footballer of Turkish descent in the episode Im Abseits (In Offside) of police procedural television series Tatort aired by the ARD channel. She worked as a sideline reporter of Sky Deutschland for the 2. Bundesliga matches beginning with the 2011–12 football season. Filiz Koç appeared in the German reality shows Die Model WG and Das Model und der Freak aired by the German commercial TV channel ProSieben.
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