Cemal Yıldız
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Cemal "Teddy" Yıldız (born 20 November 1976 in Muş) is a Turkish football manager and former player.
Yıldız played for Hertha Zehlendorf in the latter half of the 1990s, making an appearance in the final of the 1996 Berliner Landespokal as the team lost 2–0 to Tennis Borussia Berlin. Yıldız moved to his native Turkey in 2000, signing for Konyaspor in the TFF First League. After one season, he came back to Berlin where he signed for different local sides until the end of his playing career, including Türkiyemspor, SD Croatia, Tennis Borussia, Reinickendorfer Füchse and Berliner AK 07.
After becoming the assistant manager to Thomas Herbst at Tennis Borussia, Yıldız became the first team coach in August 2010 following Herbst's departure. On 19 April 2011, after a run of three straight defeats in the 2010–11 NOFV-Oberliga, Yıldız announced his resignation.