USA V TURKEY,LAST DANCE BEFORE THE BIG DANCE

The World Cup bound US National mens soccer team will play their last warm-up match against Turkish National team on Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, Financial stadium at 2:00 PM,ET.

USA head coach Bob Bradley, has trimmed his World Cup roster to the 23 players on Wednesday.


What is so interesting is he selected only four players from MlS league ...

This has to be the lowest number that represent MLS in the national team!


Going back to 1998, there were 15 players from MLS on the World Cup roster.

In 2002 there were 12 and in the last tournament there were 11 players...

But, there are 13 former MLS players on the roster who are playing in the Europe's top leagues!

CONSISTENCY ON USA SIDE...............

Argue or not, United States National team is more consistence from Turkish National team during the past 20 years in the world football(soccer scene,,,

Like it or not, USA has been in every World Cup Tournament since 1994...

Turkish National team after finishing third place in 2002 has not been in the tournament.

In 1994, Americans invested 50 million dollars to build the structure that called project 2010...

Make the story short, USA has produced more players and Goal Keepers from their Academy's which are located in Los Angeles and Florida during past twenty years....


United States is the only country in the world, that sends more goal keepers to Europe league.

Three of the keepers on the 2010 World Cup roster are playing in the Europian leagues..

Tim Howard (Everton)...Brad Guzan (Aston Villa)..Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

Turkish National team hired the world known coach Guss Hidink to coach the team..

And he is in the states with the team but, can not be on the sidelines because of his contract details,,,,,

He has watch his team from the stand in the last two friendly matches in the United States...

That is why a lot of the players on the Turkish National team roster, playing very hard to impress Hiddink!

On Saturday you will see the top Turkish players on the pitch aloong with newcomers!
Hiddink invited four players from Turkish Champions Bursaspor team,,,

Sercan.....Ozan....Volkan and Turgay....

Along with those names you will have stars like Arda Turan, Emre Belezoglu,Nihat Kahveci, Tuncay Sanli and Altintop brothers and keeper Volkan Demirel..

USA coach will put his first starters against Turkey in this match...

The Financial Field in Philadelphia will be packed with Turkish-American and USA soccer fans...

The pitch is one of the best stadiums in the United States...

It will be very nice soccer frenzy match on Saturday...

I wish, at the end of the match, on the pitch, both team players will salute the fans in hand and hand showing the solidarity for the friendship between Turks and Americans!

That will be great send-off for USA National team to the World Cup 2010...

That is my wish and dream!



AHMET B TURGUT

COULD TURKEY GET EURO 2016 TOURNAMENT?

Turkey's bid offered UEFA had a unique chance to "build a bridge between Europe and the mystic Orient". The bid said hosting the Euro 2016 finals would greatly contribute to the growth of football thanks to completely modernised sports infrastructure, long-term legacy benefits that were acknowledged in the UEFA report.

TFF: "We are ready for the final presentation"

EURO 2016 Project Director Orhan Gorbon, answered the questions of AA reporter at the TFF headquarters in İstinye. While indicating that the presentation that will be delivered prior to the UEFA Executive Committee's meeting on Friday May 28th will be very important he said "We will be the first bidder to deliver our final presentation that will take 30 minutes. In this half hour we will try to get together everything we have been telling to this day and it will be a great opportunity to tell all to everyone one last time."

He also pointed out that EURO 2016 would be the perfect opportunity to advertise Turkey. Gorbon said "For example in 2014 the Ministry of Tourism will start a campaign all around the world, situated in the airports with the theme "We are looking forward to see you in Turkey in 2016" Advertising by the money you pay is one thing but having a theme as this one is another thing. Both will come together to change the image of Turkey."

Orhan Gorbon said "5 million tourists are expected to visit Turkey for the tournament. They will be around for the whole month and all the hotels will be fully booked. New stadiums, new facilities will be built. This is very important for the construction, transportation and telecommunication sectors. Total income is estimated at around 4 billion euro.

If we win this week, touring agencies and media companies will come to Turkey as soon as next week, on Monday. People in European football industry will hopefully turn their heads towards Turkey after Friday" to finalise his words.

France has emerged as the favourite to host the 2016 European Championship following the publication of UEFA's evaluation report on the three bids for the tournament.

The France bid calls for $2.1 billion to be spent on seven major stadium renovations and four new-build projects; Saint-Denis stadium is an existing venue.

On the other hand Italy's bid only one of the 12 proposed host stadia exists; eight would be revamped with three new constructions. Italy would invest $919 million on improving its stadia infrastructure.

Turkey Beats Northern Ireland 2-0, in the second Friendly match.

First, good news to the Turkish National player, SELCUK INAN, because of my web site and this Turkish football blog, American female by the name Janet Bedin, contacted me,through mail. I than, Twit the news, on the Twitter and Facebook.

And I asked my Turkish Journalist friend in Turkey,Cuneyt Karakaya,who has a web site called www.Ataryemez.com ,to help me out on this. and in the mean time, I contacted the Turkish football Federation press officer, Turker Tozar, through the e-mail.

Make the story short , Selcuk Inan's passport and his valet has returned to him.

The lady who found his articles, will attend the USA v Turkey send-off match being good sport.........

************^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Now, the match, between Turkey and N. Ireland.....

It was all Turkey in the first half of the match but there was no score on the board for Turkey.

Tuncay Sanli wasted a couple good opportunity in the first half....

In the second half, story was different though.....
with new players sub in the second half made a difference on top for Turkey...

Early in the second half,Sercan Yildirim scored in the 48th minute and Semih Senturk added a goal in the 71st minute as Turkey rolled to a 2-0 victory in a friendly match before only 3,021 fans!

Sercan Yildrim took a pass from Selcuk Inan, (the player who received the good news about his passport before the match) on the left and beat goal keeper near the right post. Later, Semih Sentruk controlled a loose ball about 25 yards out and beat N. Ireland keeper.


I have wrote this before,,,,,,
This Tournament will be roller coaster for Turkish National team...

High.....Low....and High!

The mood will be really high when they get on the pitch on Saturday in Philadelphia!

Because,The Lincoln Financial Stadium is very nice and one of the best stadiums in the United States and there will be almost full house around 70 thousand soccer fans in the stadium.


This match will be broadcast live on ESPN2 too...

I will write in details about this match before the match on this blog....

So stay tuned for my USA v Turkey send-off match article....

AHMET B TURGUT

Turks back to work after one day off.

Veterans Stadium (New Britain, Connecticut)


After Turkey's Top man Guss Hiddink gave his players one day to enjoy Turkish Festival in Manhattan and boat ride around Manhattan island yesterday, the prepartions started on Monday for the Northern Ireland match in Veterans Stadium (New Britain, Connecticut)on Wendsday .

The stadium is prety small and the local high school uses the pitch for their soccer match.

Mehmet Topal and Mehmet Topuz did not practiced with the team today and Hamit Altintop joined the camp but he will not start to practice for another day.

The bulk of the players participated in training and after training without the ball, Training, lasted approximately two hours.

At the end of the players had to do "Halay" Turkish dance for the punishment!

Turkey Football Federation Chairman Mahmut Özgener followed the practice too.

Turkish National Team. will face Northern Ireland on Wednesday at 13:30 pm ET, on a high school soccer field..

It will be high,low and High, roller coaster, matches for Turkish National team after playing in front of near 17 thousand fans in the Red Bulls Arena on Saturday. They will not see that much fans on Tuesday Afternoon, in Veterans stadium..

But, Hold on....against USA in Philadelphia, in the send of match, for US Mens National team there will be full house in the Financial Stadium.

There will be a lot of USA fans and Turkish-American fans at this important match.

US coach Bradley, will put his real team that he will use in the World cup tournament.

As far as Turkey, the players have to show them selfs, to the new coach Gusss Hiddink.

That is why, with a huge crowd in hand and excellent stadium,it should be good match on Saturday in Philly.

The Turkish American friendship should be at work in this match...

Lastly, we Turkish-Americans don't want to be like Mexico fans in the United States!

We still remember those moments back in 2002 in S. Korea, after the match , both team players saluted the fans in hand and hand....

That's what Turkish National team do on Saturday in Philly....

Let's Support Turkey and the USA team, who is going to the biggest dance, in the World.

AHMET TURGUT

Turkish National Team participated in the Turkish Day Festival in New York

Turkish American Federations President Kaya Boztepe welcomes the National team and Guss Hiddink to the Turkish Festival.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Turkish National team players,coaches and officials attended to Turkish Day Festival in Manhattan.New York on Sunday.

TFF president Mahmut Ozgener said that they were delighted to be part of the Turkish festivities and Thanked the Turkish) Americans to support the team in the first ever friendly match they played in the United states soil against Czech Republic in Red Bull Arena on Saturday.

Turkey beat Czech Republic 2-1 ....

Turkey's new head coach Guss Hiddink also thank the fans coming out and supporting the team on Saturday. He finished his remarks by saying in Turkish "En Buyuk Turkiye"
"Turkey is the Best"

BOAT TRIP AROUND MANHATTAN ISLAND....

Turkish National team enjoyed the boat trip with Turkish media around the Manhattan island too.

Some of the players including Emre Belezoglu got sick from the boat trip.

Guss Hiddink cancelled the Sunday night practice , they will practice on Monday with light work out and than on Tuesday they will play their second friendly match against Northern Ireland in Connecticut .

Turkey will play the most important friendly match against USA on this coming Saturday in Philadelphia.

This match will bring a lot of attention to Turkish National team from National media in the United States.

This will be the last match US team will play in the United Stated before the world Cup Tournament.

Look for large crowd on Saturday in the Lincoln Financial Stadium.

U.S.A National mens team will put out their starting line up against Turkey in this match.

TURKEY 2- Czech Republic 1 ..fRIENDLY MATCH IN rED bULLS aRENA.avi

turk millitakim turkey(turkish) soccer uefa 2008(football),turkey, turkcell super league, galatasaray, besiktas, fenerbahce, trabzonspor, futbol, soccer, fussball, football, gol, goal, live scores, canl, live, puan durumu, puan cetveli, standings, results,turk futbolu, canli futbol, online futbol izle, canli futbol izle,fatih terim,vestel manisaspor,ilhan mansiz,UEFA champions league, UEFA cup, UEFA super cup, world cup, FIFA, World-wide live soccer scores, real time scores

Hiddink: "I want to install balance between players in the Turkish National team"

Photo:AA

Turkish National team coach Hidddink held his first press conference in Hoboken,New Jersey along with Emre Belzoglu and Turgay Bahadir from Bursaspor.

Hiddink told the press that he will install balance on the team as far as every one is working on one point playing total football.

"We want to do''anything offensive to establish a balance between the defensive. Everyone on my team would be offensive mission, the task will be that everyone defensive. Be a balance between these. In order to obtain results in modern football you have to act like that. Defensive, then, is not to retreat into defensive, trying to steal the ball from opponents in a game style I'm talking about.''

Emre Belözoğlu:''I congratulated Bursaspor footballers''

Turkish national team player Emre Belözoğlu from Fenerbahce said "If you are a professional you need to act accordingly. . I congratulate Bursaspor. "

Turkish National team practiced at Montclair University filed in New Jersey twice on Thursday.

After training, Halil Altintop and Guus Hiddink ahd a little talk between them. .

Training portion of Turkish National team was followed by the Football Federation Chairman Mahmut Özgener too.

Arda Turan also signed autographs after the match.


Turkish National team will practice in Red Bulls Arena on Friday at 11:30 local time.



AHMET TURGUT