SIVASSPOR TOPPLES GALATASARAY !.

SIVASSPOR TOPPLES GALATASARAY AND FENERBAHCE HAS A CHANCE TO MOVE UP TO SECOND........

Sivasspor moved three points clear at the top of the Turkish Turkcell Super League with an impressive victory over Galatasaray.
Abdurrahman Dereli opened the scoring in the 51st minute for the Sivas club before substitute Sezer Badur wrapped up the victory 15 minutes later.


The result means Sivasspor pull clear of Trabzonspor, who will play on Sunday against Fenerbahce in Istanbul, who ever wins this match, will capture the second place....
Actually, if Trabzonspor wins, they will share the top spot with Sivaspor again
but, if they lose in Istanbul ,against Fenerbahce , they will also say good - bye, to the top spot and second place with a win Fenerbahce, will capture the second place from Trabzomspor, while Galatasaray will be still on third.

Besiktas closed to within a point of fifth-placed Fenerbahce after Roman Kratochvil's 28th-minute own goal proved enough for a 1-0 win over struggling Denizlispor.

Besiktas held on despite having Tomas Zapotocny sent off 13 minutes from time.

Besikras four points clear of Kayserispor in seventh after they were beaten 3-1 by Genclerbirligi.

James Troisi was the hero for Genclerbirligi with a hat-trick (24, 56, 88). Mehmet Topuz briefly pulled Kayserispor level in the 56th minute but their miserable day was complete when Ali Turan was sent off (68).

Gaziantepspor could not capitalise on Kayserispor's slip as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Eskisehirspor.

Armand Deumi opened the scoring for the visitors on the stroke of half-time but Batuhan Karadeniz earned a point for Gaziantepspor with a 78th-minute equaliser.

Finally, Antalyaspor climbed out of the relegation zone - and dropped Ankaragucu into the bottom three - with a 1-0 away win over their rivals.

Sidney Tita netted the only goal of the game 16 minutes from time.

On Friday, In the opening match Ankaraspor beat Konyaspor at home with three goals....
On a last note ....Mexican International player Antonia Denigris has left Ankaraspor teams before the match on Friday.
WEEK 17:
FRIDAY
Ankaraspor 3 - 0 Konyaspor
SATURDAY
Eskisehirspor 1 - 1 Gaziantepspor
Kayserispor 1- 3 Genclerbirligi
MKE Ankaragucu 0 - 1 Antalyaspor
Sivasspor 2 - 0 Galatasaray
Besiktas 1- 0 Denizlispor
SUNDAY
Bursaspor – İstanbul BB
Kocaelispor - Hacettepe
Fenerbahce - Trabzonspor

WATCH FENERBAHCE V TRABZONSPOR MATCH LIVE STREA,.......

FIFA PRESIDENT NOT HAPPY WITH BRAZILANS PLAYING FOR OTHER NATIONAL TEAMS!...

According to recent article on cnn.com, FIFA president Sepp Blatter called brazilian born players who play for other national teams " The football 'invaders from Brazil'

I wonder, the Turkish National team coach Fatih Terim, has to say about this?.....

He whent on to say , "If we don't take care about the invaders from Brazil," Blatter controversially said at the draw for the 2010 World Cup. "Then at the next World Cups... we will have 16 [teams] full of Brazilian players. It's a danger, a real, real danger."

HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS ASKED BY CNN REPORTER James Montague, TO FIFA BOSS...

Do you think you players should be able to adopt a new country and play for them?

But two things have changed. The first is the globalized nature of the sport, which has allowed Brazil to sell arguably its greatest export -- talented footballers -- to every corner of the world.

The second is the emerging power and wealth of smaller states willing to use their financial muscle to attract better players to their national team.

FIFA has been extremely critical of countries that have handed passports--some after playing in their new country for less than two years-- to talented footballers.

The problem FIFA has found is separating the naturalization of a player who has genuinely put down roots in their new country -- as with Eduardo who moved to Croatia when he was 15 -- and those whose allegiances are bought and sold in a rudimentary international transfer system.

One country that has stretched the rules to breaking point is Qatar, who has used its vast gas wealth to attract and naturalize a host of players from Uruguay and Brazil.

The Qatari FA even offered to pay Brazilian striker Ailton, then the top scorer in the German Bundesliga, $1million to come and play for Qatar in 2004, even though he had never set foot in the country.

The move led to FIFA introducing emergency legislation banning naturalizations from taking place if there was no connection between the player and their prospective country.

FIFA has tried to tighten up the rules. Last May FIFA agreed a rule change which stated that a player must live in their new country for five years before they can play for the national team.

Have the rules on naturalization of footballers devalued international
football?

But for a country the size of Qatar, which has a population of fewer than one million, there are few other options. "The only way Qatar or Bahrain are ever going to be competitive is to import players and naturalize them," explains Jesse Fink, an Australian writer on Asian football and author of "15 Days in June: How Australia Became a Football Nation."

Yet ultimately Qatar's experiment in footballing naturalization looks to have paid off. They currently sit third in their Asian World Cup qualifying group and are on course for a play-off spot for South Africa 2010 thanks, in no small part, to the goals of their Uruguayan-born striker Sebastian Soria. If they qualify they will be the smallest country to ever make it to the finals.

Even more established footballing nations -- like Spain with Marcos Senna and Turkey with Mehmet Aurelio -- have looked at naturalization to fill problem positions in their team.

While English-born John Wilkinson swapped the vagaries of lower league football in the UK for Singapore after being released by non-league Exeter City. Five years later he married his Singaporean girlfriend after some gentle persuasion from the national team coach and now anchors the team's midfield. "I didn't even know where Singapore was!" he told The UK's Guardian newspaper last year.

Arsene Wenger suggested that his Spanish goalkeeper Manuel Almunia, who qualifies for a British passport after living in the UK for five years, is the answer to England's goalkeeping problems.

So will Brazilian imports really takeover the international game? Many are skeptical. "Blatter is fearful that World Cups will be overrun with naturalized Brazilians and has proposed strict rules for naturalizing players, but these are just scare tactics," concludes Fink.


"At the end of the day people want to see the majority of the players in their national team 'represent' them."

SOURCE: AHMET TURGUT/WWW.TURKISHSOCCER.COM AND CNN.COM

FORTIS TURKISH CUP QUATER FINALS DRAW..

FORTIS TURKISH CUP QUATER FINALS DRAW..

Fenerbahce - Bursapor
Galatasaray- Sivasspor
Antalyaspor- Besiktas
Denizlispor- Ankaraspor

There will be two matches ,the first leg matches will be played on January 29th and second leg matches will play on February 4th,2009.

The teams that cames out of these two matches as a winner will play in semi-finals of Fortis Cup matches.

AHMET TURGUT/WWW.TURKISHSOCCER.COM

FORTIS TURKISH CUP QUATER FINAL TEAMS

FORTIS TURKISH CUP QUATER FINAL TEAMS
FROM GROUP "A"
BESIKTAS AND ANTALYASPOR
FROM GROUP B:
GALATASARAY AND ANKARASPOR
FROM GROUP C:
SIVASSPOR AND DENIZLISPOR
FROM GROUP D:
FENERBAHCE AND BURSASPOR
The draw for the Quarterfinals will be on Monday, January 19th/

AHMET TURGUT, TURKISHSOCCER.COM

Sivasspor sign with French striker from Israel

Turkcell Super League team Sivasspor have signed French striker Yannick Kanaman from Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The 28-year-old French striker underwent medical check-up in Istanbul on Thursday. He will sign a two-and-a-half year contract with Sivasspor, club officials said.

Sivasspor coach Bulent Uygun said his club had been following Kanaman for a while.

"He is a good player. He scored over ten goals last season. I hope he adapts to my team easily," Uygun said.

Source: Turkish wires

GEREMI CLOSER TO WEAR BESIKTAS UNIFORM!....

According to reports from England, Geremi deal almost done for Besiktas.

The problem is the Geremi's Manager fee....

Newcastle boss Joe Kinnear confermed the move was likely for the 30-year old Cameroonian.

“He is talking to Besiktas at the moment. He is speaking to us at the same time, but I think he is trying to sort out some sort of contract there,” he said.

"Last night, we thought the deal would have been completed, but it has dragged on a little bit and we are waiting to see what happens."


Besiktas will pay £1.5 million to Geremi.

FIFA: BAROS ON FIRE IN TURKEY!......

The last six months have been as good as any to date for striker Milan Baros. Since switching to Istanbul giants Galatasaray in the summer of 2008, the Czech marksman has convincingly recaptured the form that once brought him goals galore for club and country.

The 27-year-old started his career with Banik, an illustrious club in the east of the Czech Republic, earning a regular place in the team at the age of just 18 and scoring 23 goals in 76 appearances. After netting twice in his first two games at full international level, a host of major European clubs set out in pursuit of his signature.

English adventure
Baros sealed a first move abroad when he signed for Premier League outfit Liverpool in the summer of 2001. After a delay obtaining a work permit, he finally joined the team then coached by Gerard Houllier in December of that year. However, his first season with the Reds was a disappointment.

Restrictions on the number of non-EU foreigners and the fierce competition provided by Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Nicolas Anelka and Emile Heskey meant the Czech starlet was restricted to one brief run-out in the UEFA Champions League.

The 1.84m goal-getter seized the initiative in pre-season ahead of the 2002/03 campaign, impressing with his fine form and starring role as the Czech U-21 side marched to European championship glory. Furthermore, Anelka and Fowler’s departure from Liverpool opened the door at club level for the talented Baros.

His maiden Premier League outing against Bolton Wanderers brought a match-winning brace in a 3-2 victory for the Reds. The striker would go on to score nine times in the course of the league campaign.
I’ve had no problems settling here. I’ve scored 18 goals in all up to now, and I hope there’s more where those came from.
Milan Baros on settling into Turkey.

The player suffered a setback in 2003/04, sustaining a serious ankle injury in another meeting with Blackburn and missing almost half the season as a result. However, the Vigantice-born striker bounced back in even better form than before.

Baros oozed class for the Czech Republic at UEFA EURO 2004 in Portugal, firing his team into the semi-finals with the five goals that also made him the tournament’s leading scorer. Ignoring lucrative offers from Real Madrid and Barcelona, he returned to the fray with Liverpool, finishing the following season with another nine-goal haul and a Champions League winners’ medal for his efforts.

Despite this, Baros never truly settled in Liverpool and switched to league rivals Aston Villa in 2005. He scored 13 goals in 46 appearances for the Birmingham club, before moving on in the 2006/07 January transfer window to Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyon, then coached by his former boss Houllier. However, the man who discovered Baros left the serial French champions at the end of the 2007 campaign, and the striker hardly featured in the sides sent out by Houllier’s successor Alain Perrin.

A return to the Premier League with Portsmouth failed to reignite Baros’ career, and the Czech opted for pastures new last summer with a move to Turkey and the might of leading Istanbul club Galatasaray. Events have shown it was a step in exactly the right direction.

A new dawn
The front-man has netted 14 goals in 14 league appearances to date, helping Gala to third spot in the table one match short of the halfway mark. Shortly before Christmas, Baros cemented his increasingly iconic status among the club’s passionate fans with a historic hat-trick in a city derby against bitter rivals Besiktas. He has also notched four goals in six UEFA Cup matches, a competition in which the Turks have reached the last 32 and now face French side Girondins Bordeaux.

"I’ve had no problems settling here. I’ve scored 18 goals in all up to now, and I hope there’s more where those came from. We have a very good squad, which obviously makes it easier for me. I know we’re not among the favourites, but I believe we have the quality to win the UEFA Cup," Baros confidently declared recently.

The Super Lig’s winter break ends on 25 January. The restart sees Baros and his team-mates travel to leaders Sivasspor, but if the Czech hitman can maintain his hot streak in the winter chill, there could soon be a change at the top of the standings.


Source: Fifa.com
http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/clubfootball/news/newsid=997268.html