USA BEATS TURKEY FOR THE FIRST TIME...2-1

It was very hot and humid day in the Philly...

But, that did not bother the fans from both sides....

American and Turkish fans were Tailgating hours before the match around the stadium..

And they were having good time too

The Turkish Journalist who came from Turkey fell in love with Financial field stadium and it's press box..

They were just amazed!

This was my second time at this stadium...

I came here when Turkish International keeper Rustu Recber was playing for Barca in a friendly match back in 2003..

Almost 55 thousand fans, showed up for this send-off match yesterday....

TURKEY STARTED.... USA FINISH IT !

In the first half it was all Turkey...

Arda Turan opened the scoring in the 27 minute after getting a beitiful ball from Kazim Richard.

Before Arda's goal Tuncay Sanli missed a wide open net....

Just before the half time both teams had prety good chances to score but they couldn't....

Tuncay's shot was deflected and Dempsey could not get to Altidore's dangerous cross in the box.

Turkey went in to the locker rooms with one gola advantage,,,

As they started the second half USA coach made four key sub....

But there was no Turkey sub in the beginning of the second half...
Turkish coaching staff was not aware of these players were the players secured spot on the starting eleven for USA in the World Cup 2010....

Lack of knowledge about the USA team and not making chances cost Turkey this match in the second half....

Thirteen minutes in to the second half...Robbie Findley, who came in as sub in the second half ,gave a good ball to Landon Donovan and Donovan narrowly avoided Turkish goalkeeper Volkan Demirel, selflessly setting up Altidore to score the goal easily..


Coach Bradley's four changes were big impact in the second half.. Steve Cherundolo for Spector, Oguchi Onyewu for Goodson, José Torres for Ricardo Clark and Robbie Findley for Feilhaber.

Those changes on the defense and in the midfield made a huge difference on USA team..

Like bob Bradley said, it was like "Night and Day"...

In the 75th minute, Steve Cherundolo another player who came in in the second half, gave a beautiful ball to Donovan who picked out Dempsey on the left side,the ball bounced off Dempsey’s hip and controlled the ball and kicked it under Volkan Demirel.


Dempsey and Jose Torres narrowly missed chances to add a third in the closing moments

Turkey’s best chance to tie the match came when Sercan Yildirim from Bursaspor burst through into the right side of the U.S. penalty area,but it was wasted...

While USA did not have a shot on goal in the first half,they had eight shots on goal in the second half,,,

After the match I attend the both teams press conference ...

Bob Bradly said "Turkey was good in the first half but we were better in the second half"


On the other hand Assistant coach Oguz Cetin, said " Americans were more disciplined and much more physically better than Turkish team as a whole team"

Well I have wrote this last week here on my blog ...

Americans might not be skill full with the ball but they have the discipline playing as whole team....

Hiddink and Oguz Cetin said they have some fixing to do with this team.....

Well, they don't have much time in their hand,,,,

In August and September there are very important matches for Turkey....

lastly, This was the first win for USA, against Turkey......

While USA was heading to the biggest dance in the World ,Turkish team will be heading for beaches for now....

Kudos to USA and good luck in the tournament....

AHMET TURGUT

USA 2- TURKEY- 1...U.S BEATS TURKEY FOR THE FIRST TIME!

USA vs. Turkey [ 2-1 ] Friendly All Goals 2010

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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.........

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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