A GIFT FROM REFEREE GIVES TURKEY 3 POINTS!...

If you watched the whole match, you would agree with me,on my heading!....
We all saw how the National team played 67 minutes!....on the side line Fatih Terim and his gang was sweating like hell!..... In the 63th minute , referee of the match , Stuart Duagal , made a bad call in my opinion and send off Gera, with second yellow card for faken falling down.

This was a good call for Turkey ..... but it was unfair and bad call in general!.....
We have to be realistic!.....if Hungary team didn't go down with a man down, the score would not be three zip!...... But, win is a win, this is not mean , Tukish National team, still back on winning record!
Referees: Stuart Dougal, Alan Cunningham, Stuart Macaulay (Scotland)
Turkey: Hakan Arikan, Hamit, Emre Asik, Servet, Ibrahim Uzulmez, Gokdeniz, Aurelio, Ayhan, Tuncay, Gokhan, Nihat

Hungary: Fulop, Szelesi, Csizmadia, Vasko, Juhasz, Vanczak, Gera, Vass, Dzsudsak, Hajnal, Priskin

Scorers: Turkey - Gokhan Unal 69 min., Mehmet Aurelio 73 min., Halil Altintop 90 min.
Red Card: Hungary - Zoltan Gera 63 min.

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A GIFT FROM REFEREE!............

TURKIYE 3 HUNGARY 0

WHO HAS NOT DONE HIS HOME WORK?....FATIH TERIM....

After Turkish national team beat Greece in Greece ,
Turkish National team took a nose dive for the worst!...

At the time Fatih Terim was talk of the town in every paper
and TV in Turkey....
We were leading the pack in the Group C.....

The Imparator!....said, we should not have any problem finishing
the group in first place....that was his own words....not mine or yours!....

Ladies and Gents, look where we are now!.... Third place in the Group C and almost lost to Malta... a little island Country with a population of four hundred thousand.
Disappointment with Fatih Terim started first against Norway (2-2) and than against Bosnia (3-2) now Malta train crash!....(2-2)

Before the match, Fatih Terim said, he and his team was confident to prevail in Malta...he said this to even Malta media!....http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=273802

And he went on to say that he does not underestimate the Malta team before the match...So, did he really study this Malta team or Not!....

Obviously not!..... Here is, our, team stats, for this match....
Turkey took 10 corner kicks while Malta had only three....
While Malta keeper had three saves, We had none!,,,,
and shot on goal we had only three and Malta had six!...

HOME WORK DONE BY DUSEN FITZEL NOT FATIH TERIM!.....

Lets listen the Malta coach !...what he said after the match....
"After watching Turkey in recent outings, I noticed there was something wrong in their defence. That's why I planned to focus on counter-attacks."


"I had told the players that if we were to score first, we would not lose. In such games, our opponents always panic,"

Dusan Fitzel definitely did his "homework" well before the game,in my opinion!....
As far as our Terim, I think, He flunked, the class, one more time!...

His, hey days in Galatasaray and before in the Turkish National team
no where to be found now!....
He, him self, like the players, not hungry any more!.....

They better be hungry this Wednesday against Hungary in Istanbul...Because this will be one way street for Fatih Terim and his players!...
Instead of thinking records and favoring old timers , we need players who run and play with their harts....we saw in Malta match who played with their harts!,,,
It was not Turkiye nor Fatih Terim....it was Malta.....

AHMET TURGUT/WWW.TURKISHSOCCER.COM/EDITOR

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Malta v Turkey Live Online..

Malta v Turkey match will be broadcast online by JumpTV.
The match will start at 1:30,ET time......
You could watch this match live on internet by going to wwww.turkishsoccer.com

Fatih Terim picks his squad for Malta, Hungary qualifiers!.

Turkish National Team coach Fatih Terim on Friday named a 26-man squad for their Euro 2008 qualifiers against Malta on Sept. 8 and Hungary on Sept. 12.The squad showed a strong Besiktas presence, with six players. Five of the squad were from Galatasaray and just three from Fenerbahce.
Squad:Goalkeepers: Rustu Recber (Besiktas), Hakan Arikan (Besiktas), Volkan Demirel (Fenerbahce)
Defenders: Ibrahim Toraman (Besiktas), Ibrahim Uzulmez (Besiktas), Gokhan Zan (Besiktas), Servet Cetin (Galatasaray), Sabri Sarioglu (Galatasaray), Deniz Baris (Fenerbahce), Hayrettin Yerlikaya (Sivasspor)
Midfielders: Mehmet Aurelio (Fenerbahce), Tuncay Sanli (Middlesbrough), Gokdeniz Karadeniz (Trabzonspor), Huseyin Cimsir (Trabzonspor), Hamit Altintop (Bayern Munich), Nuri Sahin (Feyenoord), Emre Belozoglu (Newcastle United), Arda Turan (Galatasaray), Serdar Ozkan (Besiktas), Ayhan Akman (Galatasaray), Mehmet Topuz (Kayserispor)
Forwards: Hakan Sukur (Galatasaray), Gokhan Unal (Kayserispor), Hakan Kadir Balta (Vestel Manisaspor), Halil Altintop (Schalke 04), Nihat Kahveci (Villarreal)

Man United snap up young Turkish Keeper...

FIRST TURKISH YOUNG PLAYER TO PLAY FOR MANCHESTER UNITED!...

(www.turkishsoccer.com, Sept31th, 12:10 PM,ET )
14 year-old Deniz Mehmet , who was a youth player with Arsenal and Charlton Athletic, was scouted by Man Utd to be part of their Under 16s team. And in a further boost to the young goalkeeper’s playing career, he travelled to Turkey this week to take part in the training camp for Turkey’s Under 16s team.
Deniz, whose family live in Enfield,England was delighted to have been scouted by Man Utd’s youth team.