Michael Karabas

Michael Karabas (born 14th March 1981, Gaziantep, Turkey) is a Turkish footballer who plays for FC Drenthe in Brunant, as a defender.

Karabas was born in Turkey to a Turkish father and an English mother, who worked as a diplomat. He started his footballing career in 2000 at the youth academy of Gaziantepspor, and was put on the main squad in mid-2002. In the summer of 2004, he was sold to Arabian FC in Brunant. He performed well there, and was the team captain for several periods from 2006 to 2009. Arguably his best season was the 2007-08 First League, where he scored a (for a defender) remarkable 12 goals in the league, nine of them from free kicks. In the summer of 2010 he was sold to FC Drenthe, where he currently plays.