Erman Toroğlu

Erman Refik Toroğlu is a Turkish former association football player, FIFA-level referee and, current pundit and sports columnist.

Career

Toroğlu earned his FIFA badge in 1989. In 1991, he refereed the qualifying match for Euro 92 between Switzerland and San Marino. The last arbitrated professional football game by Toroğlu was between Samsunspor and Fenerbahçe at Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium in 1993–94 1.Lig season, ended 2–0, on 5 December 1993.
Toroğlu started punditry, joining Turkish sportscaster Şansal Büyüka, in the weekly football review show "Maraton", aired at Show TV, in 1996. The program lasted 8 years until 2004, when the show was moved to Lig TV of Digiturk satellite television provider. Toroğlu quit Maraton in 2010. He now works as a pundit on the sports channel EkolTV, covering many games. He had a short punditry spell at TRT in 2015.

He married Şükran Toroğlu in 1974. They have two sons. They divorced in 2017. In 2022, he married lawyer Ezgi Yavuz, who is 34 years his junior.

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