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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Turkish National Team takes on Uruguay in friendly match



WATCH TURKEY V URUGUAY MATCH LIVE


The Turkish national team plays Uruguay in Bochum today in its second warm-up match for next month’s Euro 2008 championship.
And than, Four day later, Fatih Terim's boys will take on Finland in Duisburg in four days before leaving Germany for Switzerland on June 1.



GOKHAN GONUL OUT OF THE EURO 2008 ROSTER........


Turkey coach Fatih Terim announced the decision together with national team doctors Bülent Bayraktar and Cengiz Dinç. "Scans have showed that Gökhan should be rested for at least four weeks without participating in any training sessions. We did our best to keep him in our squad but our players' health is more important in any case. Therefore, we were forced to remove him from our EURO 2008 squad. This decision will surely disappoint him. He will return to Istanbul and continue his treatment there" Terim said. The experienced coach also added he were not intending to call a replacement for Gökhan.

Hamit Altıntop: "I'm ready to play"


FC Bayern München midfielder Hamit Altıntop made a short statement to the media, by saying: "I have totally recovered from the foot injury. I don't feel pains anymore and I'm ready to play at the moment. I can say that playing against Portugal in the first match in the group is an advantage. for us. If we play good enough, we can win this game. If we can apply Fatih Terim's tactics on the pitch, then there will be no problems. We will do our utmost in order to be successful."

Turkey, Portugal to be first Euro 2008 arrivals Turkey

Turkey and Portugal will be the first teams to arrive at their base camps for next month’s UEFA Euro 2008. Group A rivals Turkey and Portugal will arrive at their bases in Neuchatel and Geneva, respectively, on June 1.



Teams preparing for the finals in Austria, Poland (Bad Waltersdorf) and Italy (Baden bei Wien) will arrive on June 2. Under UEFA Euro 2008 regulations, every team must arrive at its team base camp at least five days before its first match. Spain will be the last of the 16 nations to arrive at its Tyrol headquarters on June 5. The referees will check into their hotel in Regensdorf near Zurich on June 2. Most training sessions will be held behind closed doors, but 14 of the 16 teams may abide by the UEFA's recommendation to open at least one training session to the public.

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