Turkey(Turkiye) draws with Sweden in friendly

Turkey and Sweden played to a 0-0 draw Wednesday in a friendly international ahead of the European Championship.

Nihat Kahveci missed several chances to score for Turkey, and Gokhan Gonul created more opportunities for the hosts but Sweden goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson was able to keep a clean sheet.
Sweden is in Group D at Euro 2008 with defending champion Greece, Spain and Russia. The Turks, who reached the semifinals at the 2002 World Cup, will play in Group A with Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Portugal.

The tournament, which runs from June 7-29, will be co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland.



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Lineups:

Turkey: Volkan Demirel, Gokhan Gonul, Servet Cetin, Gokhan Zan, Hakan Kadir Balta, Hamit Altintop, Mehmet Aurelio, Emre Belozoglu (Mehmet Topal, 77), Yildiray Basturk, Nihat Kahveci (Gokdeniz Karadeniz, 85), Halil Altintop.

Sweden: Andreas Isaksson, Sebastian Larsson, Daniel Majstorovic, Peter Hansson, Mikael Nilsson (Matias Concha, 88), Kim Kallstrom, Sebastian Larsson, Anders Svensson, Kennedy Bakircioglu, Olof Mellberg, Markus Rosenberg.

Source:AP

Turkey(Turkiye), Sweden to play friendly match

Turkey and Sweden will play a friendly match in Istanbul's Inonu Stadium on Wednesday.

The match will kick off at 8:35 p.m. local time and will be broadcast live on Turkish ATV channel in Turkey and the rest of the world will watch the match on line from this site...... WATCH TURKIYE(TURKEY) V SWEDEN MATCH LIVE HERE....
The match against Sweden will be Turkey's first one as a preparation for the Euro 2008 finals in Switzerland and Austria in June.

Paolo Tagliavento of Italy will referee the game

Fatih Terim name squad for Sweden friendly ..

Turkey coach Fatih Terim announced a 27-man squad on Friday for the friendly against Sweden in Istanbul on Feb. 6.

Here is the squad...

Emre Aşık(Ankaraspor), Hamit Altıntop (Bayern Münih), Rüştü Reçber, İbrahim Kaş, Gökhan Zan (Beşiktaş A.Ş.), Caner Erkin (CSKA Moskova), Halil Altıntop (FC Schalke 04), Volkan Demirel, Uğur Boral, Gökhan Gönül, Mehmet Aurelio, Semih Şentürk (Fenerbahçe), Remzi Giray Kaçar (Gençlerbirliği Oftaş), Servet Çetin, Arda Turan, Hakan Kadir Balta, Mehmet Topal (Galatasaray), Mehmet Topuz, Gökhan Ünal (Kayserispor), Tümer Metin (Larissa), Serkan Kırıntılı (MKE Ankaragücü), Emre Belözoğlu (Newcastle United FC), Serhat Niyazi Akın (RSC Anderlecht), Mehmet Yıldız (Sivasspor), Gökdeniz Karadeniz (Trabzonspor), Yıldıray Baştürk (VfB Stuttgart), Nihat Kahveci (Villarreal).

Schildenfeld joins Besiktas

Besiktas soccer club of the Turkcell Super League signed a contract on Friday that added Croatian player Gordon Schildenfeld to their squad.


Schildenfeld formerly played for Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia as a defender. He is 23 years old.

Vestel Manisspor signs Portuguese player Targino

Portuguese striker Tiaga Joao Targino Da Silva has joined Turkish Turkcell Super League squad Vestel Manisaspor.

21-year-old Targino, who was playing for Portuguese first division team Vitoria de Guimares, signed a one-year contract with the Turkish squad.

"I am now a player of Portugal under-21 national team. I aim to prove myself here in Turkey and join Portuguese national team for European Championship. Turkey is a great opportunity for me to succeed it," Targino said.

Galatasaray loaned Necati again

Dear Turkish soccer fans, I am getting light headed with all this winter transfer news from Turkcell Super League...and it is not over yet!....TFF extended the date until February fifth.

Anyway, Galatasaray told Necati that "they don't want him"

Galatasay loaned striker Necati Ates to Istanbul BB SK for the remainder of the season.


Necati Ates,returned to Galatasaray from a loan spell with Ankaraspor earlier this month, moves to Istanbul BB in the hope of enjoying a more productive second half of the season. He scored only three goals in 14 Süper Lig appearances for Ankaraspor.

Isaksson says no to Galatasaray!

Manchester City goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson has turned down a move to Galatasaray, having previously expressed a wish to join the Turkish club.Isaksson had been hoping to leave City before the close of the transfer window to safeguard his position in Sweden's Euro 2008 squad.

He has lost out to Joe Hart to be City's number one and admitted a desire to finalise a switch to Galatasaray in order to play regularly.

But City's first-team coach Tord Grip has confirmed Isaksson does not want to join Galatasaray on loan.

"Andreas is probably staying here, it now looks that way," City's Tord Grip told Sportbladet. "He is able to go on loan to Galatasaray and get a game.

"But that is what he doesn't want to do and we cannot do much more."

Meanwhile, Galatasaray have signed Roma midfielder Ahmed Barusso on loan for the rest of the season to provide cover for Tobias Linderoth.

The Ghanaian has struggled for first-team opportunities this season and will head to Turkey once his country's involvement in the Africa Cup of Nations is complete.