TURKEY TURKCELL SUPER LEAGUE REVIEW BY AHMET TURGUT

SATURDAY REVIEW :

WOOD WORKS SAVES FENERBAHCE AND INJURY TIME LUCK FOR BESIKTAS!....

Although Roberto Carlos scored the Fenerbahce's only and his first ever TSL goal there were two shots came of of woodworks of Fenerbahce goal. if those were in the goal we could not talked about Fenerbahce's win and Roberto Carlos first goal. Let me say this , When the aces of Fenerbahce players on the pitch with Carlos , they do not run!....they seem to play more slower soccer.....this could be trouble for Fener in coming days!... any team takes advantage of Roberto Carlos side of field ,they will give Fenerbahce hard time. Carlos , in my opinion, slows the game down....he does not run ,,,when he goes up, he is late coming back !..Zico, has to watch this!...

As far as Besiktas, they were saved by 16 years old striker Batuhan Karadeniz, in the last second of the injury time in Gaziantep. Now, I am sure every soccer writer, who has a corner in the major news paper will take this kid, to sky-limit with their remarks!...that could be disaster for this kids future in my opinion!... Rookie coach Ertugrul Saglam, took Delgado out in the 63th minute and put Batuhan in the match....I know one thing, if Batuhan ,didn't score that goal for Besiktas , every body would be trashing Ertugrul Saglam for taken out Delgado from the match Today!..... I think ,Saglam escaped a fire again this week....... just like he did last week too!....How long this rabbit will jump!.... I don't know..I know one thing, Saglam has to play Delgado and give his confidence back!...he will need him in the Champions League matches, Because Batuhan Karadeniz will not save him in the CL......

Elswere on Saturday, Burasaspor won in a way in Ankara and they beat Genclerbirligi ...score Bursa 3- Gencler 1

In Istanbul, Istanbulk Municipality team beat League's another newcomer Gencler Oftas 1-0.

Before Sunday's match Besiktas captured the first place for now ,with 9 points.. On Sunday, the two teams with six points Galatasaray and Ankaragucu will clash in Istanbul in empty stadium... Also, Hakan Sukur, will try to brake Tanju Colak's most goal scored record!...



AHMET TURGUT/ EDITOR OF TURKISHSOCCER.COM

LET THE GAMES BEGIN IN THE TURKCELL SUPER LEAGUE

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The 50th season of the Turkey's Super League takes a start Today........
Last Years Champions Fenerbahce will open the 2007-2008 season on Friday in Istanbul against Istanbul's Municipality soccer team!... They will play the match in Ataturk Olympic Stadium. Since this is a home game for Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediyesipsor( I will call them IBB Spor), They will make a lot of money on Fener's back...I think,
the Stadium will be pack tonight.


Roberto Carlos will play his first official Turkcell Super League match tonight...
There will be a lot of foreign media there to cover this event.

Week one's first match will start at 2:45 ET,Time.(ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN TIMES)

Friday:
2.45 p.m. İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi2- 0Fenerbahçe (Atatürk Olimpiyat) lIVE SCORE..
A Bad start for Roberto Carlos and Fenerbahce....

Roberto Carlos had a disappointing debut for Fenerbahce which lost 2-0 Friday to Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediyespor in the opening round of the Turkish Turkcell Super League.

Former Fenerbahce player Kerim Zengin scored for newly promoted Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediyespor(Istanbul municipality soccer team) in the 19th minute and Murat Ocak headed a second goal in the 27th minute.
Saturday:
2.00 p.m. Ankaraspor 1- 2 Ankaragücü (Yenikent ASAŞ)
2.45 p.m. Beşiktaş 1- 0 Konyaspor (BJK İnönü)

Sunday:
11.45 a.m. Trabzonspor 1-0 Sivasspor (Hüseyin Avni Aker) (Thegame was suspendend)2.00 p.m. Gaziantepspor 2- 0 Kasımpaşa (Kamil Ocak) 2.00 p.m. Gençlerbirliği 1-2 Gençlerbirliği OFTAŞ Spor (Ankara 19 Mayıs)
2.00 p.m. Denizlispor 0-0 Bursaspor (Denizli Atatürk) 2.00 p.m. Kayserispor 3- 1 Vestel Manisaspor (Büyükşehir Belediye Atatürk) 2.45 p.m. Galatasaray 4- 0 Çaykur Rizespor (Atatürk Olimpiyat)

Arouna Kone has turned down an approach from Galatasaray.

PSV Eindhoven striker Arouna Kone has turned down an approach from Galatasaray.

Galatasaray, reportedly prepared to pay 20million euros for the Ivory Coast star - a sum which would have triggered a release clause in his contract.

However, the 23-year-old revealed he had no desire to move to Turkey.

"I do not choose for the money," Kone told the Brabants Dagblad newspaper.

"When I leave PSV, it will be for a spell at a top club."

Turkey's TURKCELL Super League transfer market

Some teams have been cautious in the transfer market, while others have spent like drunken sailors. Here is a quick look at the summer's arrivals and departures across the Turkcell Super League.

FENERBAHÇE
Arrivals: Roberto Carlos (Real Madrid), Gökçek Wederson (Ankaraspor), Colin Kazım Richards (Sheffield United), Ali Bilgin (Antalyaspor), İlhan Parlak (Kayserispor), Gökhan Gönül (GB Oftaş) and Yasin Çakmak (Ç. Rize).

Departures: Ümit Özat (Cologne), Serkan Balcı (Trabzonspor), Rüştü Reçber, Mehmet Yozgatlı (Beşiktaş), Tuncay Şanlı (Middlesbrough), Recep Biler (GB Oftaş), Olcan Adın (Karşıyaka) and Kerim Zengin (İstanbul BŞ).


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BEŞİKTAŞ Arrivals: Rodrigo Tello (Sporting Lizbon), Hakan Arıkan (Ankaraspor), Rüştü Reçber and Mehmet Yozgatlı (Fener), Edouard Cisse (Paris Saint Germain), Atilla Özmen (Altay) and Lamine Diatta (St. Etienne).

Departures: Vedran Runje (Lens), Ali Güneş (Freiburg), and Kleberson and Ramazan Kurşunlu (Ankaraspor). Additionally Necati Ateş, Orhan Ak, Cihan Haspolatlı, Emre Aşık and Hasan Kabze have been declared personae non grata but their final destinations are not yet known.


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GALATASARAY

Arrivals: Servet Çetin (Sivasspor),
Tobias Linderoth (FC Copenhagen),
Orkun Uşak (K. Erciyes), Lincoln (Schalke), İsmael Bouzid (Kaiserslautern),
Serkan Çalık and Barış Özbek (Essen),
and Volkan Yaman (Antalyaspor).

Departures: Faryd Ali Mondragon (Cologne), Sasha Ilic (Salzburg), İnamoto (E. Frankfurt), and Ergün Penbe and
Fevzi Elmas (Antalyaspor).


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TRABZONSPOR

Arrivals: Adnan Güngör (Samsunspor), Serkan Balcı (Fener), Daouda Jabi (K. Erciyes), Tolga Seyhan (S. Donetsk on loan), Barış, Yunus and Kadir.

Departures: Ardijan Djokaj and
Milan Stepanov (Porto), Miroslav Szymkowiak, Ufuk, Emre,
Cem and Murat.


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SİVASSPOR

Arrivals: Fatih Atik (Montpellier),
Musa Aydın (Sakarya), Mamado
Dialo, Sedat Bayrak and Abdurrahman Dereli (A. Gücü), Ilgar Kurbanov,
Muhammed Ali Kurtuluş,
Burhan Akgün and Aytaç Ak.

Departures: Servet Çetin (G. Saray),
İsmail Sağlam (Malatya), Serdar Topraktepe (Kocaeli), Ertuğrul Aslan (Antalya) and Musa Kuş (Denizli).


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ANKARASPOR

Arrivals: Tevfik Köse (B. Leverkusen), Tayfun Türkmen (Konyaspor), Ramazan Kurşunlu (Beşiktaş) and Umut Sözen (Altay).

Departures: Hakan Arıkan (Beşiktaş), Vederson (Fener), Adam Petrous (Slovan Liberec), Volkan Arslan (G. Antepspor), Dragoslav Jevric.


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BURSASPOR

Arrivals: Mustafa Sarp (K. Erciyes), Herve Tum (Strasbourg), Reny Vega (Carabobo), Collins Mbesuma (Portsmouth) and
Cihan Haspolatlı (G. Saray).

Departures: Hasan Yiğit and
Ömer Çatkıç (G. Antepspor),
Can Cumhur Bozacı (Ç. Rize)
and Burak Akdiş.


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ÇAYKUR RİZESPOR

Arrivals: Emre Toraman (K. Erciyes), Metin Aktaş (D. Bakır), David Gonzales (Deportivo Cali), Can Cumhur Bozacı (Bursa), Gökhan Kök (K. Erciyes), Leandro Rodriguez and Nascimento Ribeiro (Ituana), Şadi Çolak (Ordu) and Mame Moussa Gueye (Hessen Kassel).

Departures: Gökhan Kaba (İstanbul BŞ), Tolga Doğantez (G. Birliği), Hasan Uğur (Antalya), Seydihan Başlantı (Bolu), Tjikuzu (İstanbul BŞ), İbrahim Said (A. Gücü on loan), Yasin Çakmak (Fener), Erhan Albayrak.


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DENİZLİSPOR

Arrivals: Caner Celep (Bolu), Güray Vural (Selimiyespor), Zafer Demir (Sakarya), Musa Kuş (Sivas), Allyso Araujo and Carlos Alberto.

Departures: Serhat Gülpınar (Kayseri), Adriano Nascimento (İstanbul BŞ), Erman Güraçar and Ahmet Çağaran (Karşıyaka), Karel and Sezer.


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GAZİANTEPSPOR

Arrivals: Armand Deumi (Thun),
Ömer Çatkıç (Bursa), Sedlak (Ruzomberok), Volkan Arslan
(Ankara), Uğur Yıldırım (Heerenveen) and Özgür Bayer (K. Erciyes).

Departures: Stelian Krita (A. Gücü), Veysel Cihan (Konya), Kenan Hasagic (İstanbul BŞ) and Göksel Akıncı (Kasımpaşa).


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GENÇLERBİRLİĞİ

Arrivals: Nick Carle (Newcastle Jets), Marco Zoriç (Banat Zrenjanin), Mustafa Çiçek (Samsun), Tolga Doğantez (Ç. Rize), Burhan Eşer (D. Bakır), Nikola Petkovic and Olgay Coşkun (Karşıyaka) and Da Silva Mendocha.

Departures: Draman Haminu (Dinamo Moscow) and Adem Dursun (Erciyes).


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G. OFTAŞSPOR

Arrivals: Savaş Eren (Alibeyköy), Cevher Toktaş (Bursa Merinos), Volkan Hasancebi (Fethiye), Recep Biler (Fener), İbrahim Şahin (A. Sebat), Smart Ozotite, Aleksandr Jevtic and Kadir Bekmezci.

Departure: Gökhan Gönül (Fener).


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İSTANBUL BÜYÜKŞEHİR

Arrivals: Evren Kürkçü (Samsun), Sancak Kaplan (Altay), Gökhan Kaba (Ç. Rize), Erman Kılıç (Elazığ),
Adriano Nascimento (Denizli),
İlyas Kahraman (Antalya), Tjikuzu (Ç. Rize), Sergio Daniel Orteman (Boca Juniors), Hasagic (G. Antepspor), Caner Altın (Samsun) and Kerim Zengin (Fener, on loan).

Departure: Yigitcan Erdoğan (Orduspor).


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KASIMPAŞA

Arrivals: Murat Yıldırım (Ajax), Barbaros Barut (Essen), Ali Yetkin (Greuther Fürth), Colibaly (Istres), Sabri Turgut (Sidespor), Andre
Moritz (Fluminense), Hugo Leonardo Pereira (Vasco de Gama), Khalid Sinouh (AZ Alkmaar) and Göksel Akıncı (G. Antepspor).

Departure: None.


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KAYSERİSPOR

Arrivals: Savaş Yılmaz (Zeytinburnu), Koray Çölgeçen (Kocaeli), Mehmet Eren (K. Erciyes), Serhat Gülpınar (Denizli), Cangele (Sakarya),
Ali Çamdalı (B. Leverkusen), Juan Pablo Avendano (Argentinos Juniors), and Turgay Bahadır and Durmuş Bayram (Schalke).

Departure: İlhan Parlak (Fener).


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KONYASPOR

Arrivals: Burak Özsaraç (V.Manisa), Muhammed Akıncı (Silkeborg),
Can Parlayan (Değirmendere), Jose Manuel Gomes Da Silva (Maritimo)
and Veysel Cihan (G. Antepspor).

Departures: Tayfun Türkmen (Ankaraspor), Uğur Yanıkdemir (Kartalspor) and Eder Ceccon.


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ANKARAGÜCÜ

Arrivals: Yunus Balaban (A. Aachen), Stelian Krita (G. Antepspor), Fatih Akyel
(G. Birliği), Ahmet Dursun (Antalya), Zafer Özgültekin (Eskişehir), İlkem Özkaynak (K. Erciyes), İbrahim Ege (Denizli), Habib Mohammed and Cem Can (Sivas), El Yasa (D. Bakır), İbrahim Said (Ç. Rize on loan), Vien Venu and Jiri Masek (Tirol), Kamburov (Plovdiv) and Murat Erdoğan (Sakarya).

Departures: Gökçek Wederson, Alex Yordanov, İvaylo Petkov, Devran Ayhan and Murat Ocak (İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi), Sedat Yeşilkaya (G. Birliği), Aytekin Viduşlu (Antalyaspor), Sedat Bayrak (Sivas) and Abdurrahman Dereli (Sivas).



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VESTEL MANİSASPOR

Arrivals: Josef Dvornik (Ruzomberok).

Departures: Fevzi Tuncay (Malatya), Burak Özsaraç (Konya) and Kenan Aslanoğlu (Adana Demir).

Source: Zaman Daily

Reuters:Fenerbahce move to Brazilian rhythm in title race

ISTANBUL, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Fenerbahce will launch their Turkish league campaign on Friday as favourites to retain the title with a team that is taking on a growing Brazilian flavour after the signing of Roberto Carlos.

Galatasaray have also turned to a Brazilian for inspiration among their summer signings in the form of playmaker Lincoln and are looking to the experience of veteran German coach Karl-Heinz Feldkamp to unseat their arch Istanbul rivals.

Fenerbahce earned a morale-boosting win on Sunday when they beat the other major title contenders Besiktas 2-1 in the Turkish Super Cup, which pitches the league champions against the cup winners.

"Winning a cup like this during our preparations at the start of the season increases our expectations and hopes about what we will achieve," said Fenerbahce's Brazilian coach Zico.

Fenerbahce will kick off the season on Friday when they play newly promoted Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediyespor, the Istanbul municipality club, at the city's Olympic Stadium.

Of the other two realistic title contenders, Besiktas play at home against Konyaspor on Saturday and Galatasaray will host Rizespor on Sunday.

Fenerbahce won the league for the 17th time in May and were runaway leaders with 70 points ahead of Besiktas on 61 and Galatasaray on 56.

Former Real Madrid defender Roberto Carlos will join his compatriots, including newly appointed captain Alex de Souza, forward Deivid de Souza and defender Edu Dracena, at Fenerbahce.

The squad also includes Wederson and Mehmet Aurelio, who have dual Brazilian and Turkish citizenship.

Forward Colin Kazim-Richards has also joined the club from Sheffield United.

EUROPEAN HOPES

Under new coach Ertugrul Saglam, Besiktas snapped up two Fenerbahce players over the summer -- experienced international goalkeeper Rustu Recber and midfielder Mehmet Yozgatli.

The club have also added to their midfield with Chilean international Rodrigo Tello from Portugal's Sporting and French player Edouard Cisse from Paris St Germain.

They will be looking to set their season off on the right foot on Wednesday when they play Moldova's Sheriff in the return leg of the Champions League second qualifying round.

Aside from Galatasaray's UEFA Cup triumph in 2000, Turkish clubs have failed to achieve major success in Europe, with Fenerbahce in particular having underperformed, a record they are determined to improve on this season.

Under Feldkamp, who previously coached the club in the 1992-93 season, Galatasaray has strengthened its midfield with the signing from FC Copenhagen of Swedish international Tobias Linderoth, who will link up with Brazilian Lincoln from Schalke.

The club has also turned to Germany to sign young Turkish-German duo Baris Ozbek and Serkan Calik from Rot-Weiss Essen, to inject some youth to a squad which still features veteran striker Hakan Sukur and midfielder Hasan Sas.
By Daren Butler

Besiktas advances to 3rd round

Besiktas beat Sheriff Tiraspol of Moldova 3-0 in the second leg of the European Champions League.

Besiktas soccer club of Turkey beat Sheriff Tiraspol of Moldova 3-0 in the second leg of the European Champions League second qualifying round match in Tiraspol on Wednesday.


Stadium: Sheriff
Referees: Ian Robertson Brines, Gordon Middleton, Willie Dishington (Scotland)

Sheriff Tiraspol: Pascenco, Gnanou, Chinwo, Tarkhnishvili, Corneencov (Demalde), Balima, Roumba (Gumenyuk), Arbanas, Constancia (Suvorov), Mamah, Kuchuk

Besiktas: Hakan, Serdar Kurtulus, Ibrahim Kas (Baki), Ibrahim Toraman, Ibrahim Uzulmez, Serdar Ozkan, Cisse, Koray, Tello, Delgado (Ricardinho), Bobo (Nobre)
Scorers: Bobo (min. 57 and 69), Koray (min. 90)

Yellow cards: Tello, Ibrahim Kas, Koray (Besiktas), Kuchuk (Sheriff Tiraspol)

Red card: Mamah (Sheriff Tiraspol)

Sheriff Tirasp v Besiktas (Champions League) Wednesday 8th August 2007

Sheriff Tirasp 0-3 Besiktas
(Champions League) Wednesday,13:00 ET ,TIME Live Score.,.........


Sheriff Tirasp have a home record of 5-2-2 for their 9 home games this season, 17 points from a possible 27. That's a home points average of 1.89 compared to 1.30 for all games this season. Sheriff Tirasp's recent points average is 1.83, 11 points from 6 games 3-2-1 .
Besiktas have an away record of 3-2-6 for their 11 away games this season, 11 points from a possible 33. That's an away points average of 1.00 compared to 1.60 for all games this season. Besiktas's recent points average is 1.17, 7 points from 6 games.

Goal Analysis


Sheriff Tirasp have a recent goal tally of 8-2 (6 games), season total of 19-15 from 17 games. Besiktas have a recent goal tally of 4-9 (6 games), season total of 18-20 from 21 games.

The number of goals average for the most recent games involving both these teams is 1.92 (23 goals in 12 games), the season average being 1.80 (72 goals in 40 games).

Besiktas won the first match in Istanbul 1-0. Besiktas needs a tie to go to next round.