THE DERBY BELONGS TO FENERBAHCE!....2-0

What I thought, and wrote before the match, it happened..well, we have to wait until Sunday to see if Sivaspor could claim the top spot again from Galatasaray.

Galatasaray not only lost to Fenerbahace, they might lose the top spot if Sivaspsor wins at home tomorrow against Denizlispor.

Galatasaray team was unbeatable for 14 weeks in the Turkcell Super League...That was a a huge run by Gala and German Coach Mr Feldkamp. No one in the Turkish media gives him credit for that.

Forget about the credit, the Guy(Erman Toroglu), who has a stick in his hand every week at the "Maraton" program on LiGTV, has a balls to ask him a question in a nasty and absurd way, why he does not play the veteran players on the bench!.... Any way, I don't want to take away any thing from Fenerbahce's gusty win over Galatasaray.

As I said it before, Fenerbahce won it with experience players... Galatasaray, was without Lincoln, Lindreroth, Ayhan and Hasan Sas. I think that was the difference...

Galatasaray had no midfield and early goal scored by Fenerbahce didn't help things , in my opinion.

They were shock and Fenerbahce with the fantastic fan base in Sukru Sracoglu Stadium total winner as a team on a Saturday night in Istanbul. They put on a great show and soccer !.....

They must learned from nasty mistakes from last season....This is the way every stadium in Turkey should be.... Full and every fan enjoying them self!....

Although he and his defense made a huge mistake on the first goal, Galatasaray keeper Orkun played a hell of game...the score instead two zip, it could well be five zip, if Orkun did not make those important saves. My player of the match was Roberto Carlos he ran like a young man out there...

Fenerbahce keeper Volakn made key saves too....he looks like, got his confidence..that is good for Turkish National Team an for Fenerbahce,,,,if that, does not go to his big head!....

I don't know about you guys but I noticed, one thing after the match, both team coaches talked to the LIGTV reporters both of them looked calm and cool.... Our Turkish coaches , I hope learned from them last night.....No one complain about the referee or critiqued the own players...that's the way it should be..

Lastly, we have to teach a TV journalism to those guys who keeps people in front of the TV screens for hours!....Like that guy, with a stick in his hand , making bold and absurd comments..
REFEREES: Fırat Aydınus , Serkan Ok , Tarık Ongun
FENERBAHÇE: Volkan Demirel , Gökhan , Lugano , Edu , Roberto Carlos (Kazım MIN. 90+2 ), Mehmet Aurelio , Selçuk , Uğur Boral (Vederson MIN. 46 ), Alex , Deivid , Semih (Kezman MIN. 72 )
GALATASARAY: Orkun , Uğur , Song , Servet , Hakan Balta , Sabri , Volkan Yaman (Ümit Karan MIN. 63 ), Barış (Mehmet Topal MIN. 84), Serkan , Arda (Hakan Şükür MIN. 74 ), Nonda
RED CARD: Deivid (MIN. 78)
GOALS: Semih (MIN. 5), Deivid (MIN. 56)
YELLOW CARDS: Uğur, Semih, Deivid, Edu (Fenerbahçe), Song, Volkan Yaman, Arda (Galatasaray)

Also on Saturday,Kayserispor lost ground on the top four after being held to a goalless stalemate at Caykur Rizespor, while Kasimpasa picked up a rare point with a 2-2 draw against Ankaragucu.

AHMET TURGUT
WWW.TURKISHSOCCER.COM,EDITOR

ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR U-16's TURKISH NATIONALS!..RUSSIA 4 TURKEY 3

WATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS OF RUSSIA V TURKEY U-16'S MATCH HERE.......
Turkish National soccer team U-16's lost to the Russian National team 3-2..
They will play against US national team on Sunday at 3pm,ET.The match will be broadcast on fox soccer TV on tape at 8:00 pm,ET.

You could watch the highlights of the disaster match against Brazil on www.ussoccer.com web site....

One little note to our friend at www.tff.org Turkish Federation web site, the matches is in Florida not in New York....please get that....It is absurd...as a Federation web site you don't know where are the matches playing!....How bad is that!

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TURKISH U -16'S THRASHED BY BRAZIL U-16'S!....

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The Brazil U-16s beat Turkey U-16s 7-2. The game was close at halftime, with Brazil leading 1-0, but a second half barrage of goals created the lopsided scoreline. Check back here later for highlights of the game ...

The 2007 Nike Friendlies will take place from Dec. 6-9 at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.Fox Soccer Channel to Televise Three U-17 International Matches at 2007 Development Academy Nike Friendlies

U.S. U-17 MNT to Face Brazil, Russia and Turkey During the Friendlies;
USA-Russia on Dec. 6 and USA-Brazil on Dec. 8 Will Be Broadcast Live on FSC;
Player Development

The U.S. kicks off the weekend live on FSC when they go up against Russia on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 3 p.m. ET. Two days later, the U.S. will continue its familiar December match-up with Brazil for the third straight year, and fourth overall, at the Friendlies when the countries square off on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 2:30 p.m. ET. The U.S. will then face Turkey on Sunday at 3 p.m. ET, which will be televised on a same-day delay at 8 p.m. ET.

Hamit Altintop undergoes knee operation!...

Turkish National team player andb Bayern Munich's Hamit Altintop will be out of soccer(football) for the next month after having a knee operation.

.The 24-year-old midfielder,had surgery in Augsburg on Tuesday to repair a damaged meniscus in his right knee.
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The Bundesliga leaders will be without the utility man for league matches against Duisburg this weekend and Hertha Berlin on December 15, plus the UEFA Cup clash with Greek side Aris Salonika on December 19.
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He is expected to be able to report for training in January after the Bundesliga starts the month-long winter break on December 15.

UEFA DENIES INVESTEGATING LIVERPOOL THRASHING BESIKTAS!

Dear Besiktas fans, Europian media is been rocking with this news last 24 hours and our so called, Turkish soccer media, has been sleeping on the job...

Here is the story, according to article that was publish by Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germain newspaper, The match was "frenzied betting on a high-score victory''
before the match...
In that article by Germain paper suggest Besiktas players, on a fraction of the salaries earned by Liverpool stars, could have been targeted by Asian betting syndicates!...

After this shocking news published by Sueddeutsche Zeitung,Germain newspaper, UEFA has denied it is investigating Liverpool's 8-0 victory over Besiktas in the Champions League for alleged suspicious betting patterns during the match.

AHMET TURGUT
www.turkishsoccer.com,Editor

ANOTHER LAST MINUTE GOAL SAVES GALATASARAY!..

TURKEY TURKCELL SUPER LEAGUE WEEKEND REVIEW............

It seems like Galatasaray team some how gets by in the last minutes, lately...

Although they did not win the match but a come back from behind draw against Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediyespor was good enough for Cimbom to hold the top spot this week too after Sivasspor lost to a relegation team Ankaraspor in Ankara.

After Hasa Sas rejected from the match with two yellow card,
Ten-man Galatasaray have fought back from a two-goal half-time deficit to secure a 2-2 draw against Istanbul Buyuksehir BSK and narrowly avoid their first defeat of the season in Turkey. After the match Hasan Sas told Turkish media that he does not want to play soccer in Turkey and Galatasaray any more"
Marcus Vinicius Cesario recorded a first-half brace with goals in the 10Th and 40Th minutes before Hakan Kadir Balta pulled one back for the league leaders after 72 minutes.

It seemed as though Istanbul were on the verge of recording their first away win of the season when Hasan Sas was sent off in the 80Th minute.

But Umit Karan - who had only been on the pitch for 12 minutes - pounced right at the death to steal a point for the Turkish giants.

WHAT HAPPENED TO SIVASSPOR?

Second-placed Sivasspor lost ground on the leaders after a shock 2-0 defeat at Ankaraspor.

Necati Ates opened the scoring for the hosts on 26 minutes before Sidney Tita sealed a vital victory 10 minutes from time to see Ankaraspor put four points between themselves and rock-bottom Kasimpasa.

Caykur Rizespor pulled themselves out of the relegation zone with a credible 1-1 draw at high-flying Besiktas.

Leandro Rodriguez gave the visitors a surprise lead five minutes into the second half before Matias Delgado equalised for the fourth-placed side in the 72nd minute.

But the visitors clung on to take only their second away point of the season.

Manisaspor inched their way closer to safety thanks to a 1-0 win over fellow strugglers Gaziantepspor.

Filip Holosko scored the only goal of the game from the spot six minutes from time to see the hosts leapfrog their opponents into 13Th spot.

Elsewhere Kayserispor maintained their unbeaten home record as they held Genclerbirligi OFTAS to a 1-1 draw.

Mehmet Topuz gave Kayserispor the lead in the 17th minute but Ibrahim Sahin drew the visitors level on 29 minutes.

LOOK FATIH TERIM !... IT IS SWITZERLAND AGAIN.

Draw for the Euro 2008 finals conducted on Sunday in Lucerne city of Switzerland.
Turkey and Fatih Terim will be once again face Switzerland in the "A" group/

Besides Switzerland, Portugal and Czech Republic are the rivals of Turkey in Group A.

The reason why I bring up the trouble match is, there is a lot of lessons to be learned from that match for both sides!..I hope Fatih Terim will learn from his mistakes from ugly 2005 game in Istanbul. Another thing that bothers me from this ugly match if you all remember, Emre, after this ugly game, said, "He did not do any thing wrong" in that match...every one knows the result!....he was punished for 6 mathes later reduced to 4 mathces, for being Absurd.

Now,I am wondering , If Terim will play his "Captain" Emre in this match?...
After the draw look what Mr. Terim saif to world media " "Switzerland has long been our friend.What happened on the pitch remains on the pitch. The last person I embraced before coming here was Swiss team captain Alex Frei"

But, wait, listen to the Swiss captain Alex Frei at the draw, after he had a chat with Terim "Obviously it will be hard for the players who were directly involved like Stephane Grichting and Benjamin Huggel to forgive and forget what happened in Istanbul,"

Anyway, This will bring back the ugly memories whether you like it or not!...

It will be realy dificult to play this match on their turf this time!...I just hope

There won't be revange on the field!

That's why Fatih Terim has to watch how he talks to media, his face gimmicks and his attitude at the press conferenses has to be better......

Turkish National Soccer team will take on Portugal on June 7th in its first match in Geneva.

The second match will be played with Switzerland in Basel on June 11th and the last match with Czech Republic in Geneva on June 15th.