WHY ROBINHO SNUB TURKISH TEAMS?

So,Robinho has rejected a move to Turkey!


First Besiktas than Fenerbahce offered him pretty good money...

26-year-old said Robinho said : 'With all due respect to Turkish football, I'm not going to play there right now.



I wonder , over the weekend, talking to his friend , had anything to do with his decision?


Lately, Brazilian players are under a lot of pressure playing in Turkey!


Another factor, Robinho still young and only 26 years old...


His friend Elano, probably gave him pretty good idea about Turkey and Turkish football that is why he said, 'With all due respect to Turkish football, I'm not going to play there right now. "

With this comment, he left a open door for him to play in Turkey, in the later years of his football career!

So, this was clear snubbing job by Robinho to Turkish Teams!

TRABZONSPOR BEAT FENERBAHCE 3-2!

TRABZONSPOR BEAT FENERBAHCE 3-2!

WORST START EVER FOR GALATASARAY!

Frank Rijkaard with Ahmet B Turgut-2003




Turkish Spor Toto Super League begin only two weeks a go and Turkish Giants Galatasaray , hit rock bottom!

They are in the second from bottom of the Turkish Spor Toto Super League at the end of second week!


This is the worst start for Frank Rijkkard's Galatasaray.......


Galatasaray lost their second match in a row, suffering a 0-2 home defeat by Bursaspor.

The Turkish press after this disaster start wants Frank Rijkaard's head!

They want him to be sacked and Fatih Terim to come back to coach the team...

How absurd and stupid is that.....'

With this in the defending champs Bursaspor is back at on top of the Turkish Spor Toto Super League.

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Besiktas crash at home................


Besiktas suffered their first defeat of the season on Saturday.

New German Besiktaş coach Bernd Schuster, not knowing the Turkish Super Leagu teams just yet mad a huge mistake and went all out with attacking minded team..

The defense an Besiktas's rookie keeper Cenk Gonen, cost the match for the Besiktas!

Istanbul BB, in the second half killed Besiktas with counter attack goals and Besiktas reject Ibrahim Akin....


This loss should be a wake up call for Schuster and Besiktas.....


In the other matches on Friday ,Saturday and Sunday .....

Konyaspor beat Eskisehirspor 2-1,Kayserispor won against Karabükspor at home 1-0//

Antalyaspor and Sivasspor played for 1-1 draw in Antalya...


Manisaspor lost at home against Ankaragucu at home 0-3 and Genclerbirligi got a draw in Gaziantep with 0-0 score against Gaziantepspor.

MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL.....

The match of the second week will be played between Trbzomspor and Fenerbahce in Trabzon on Monday Night.

The winner will make it two out of two in the league will share the lead with Bursaspor...

Both of these teams will play their second leg match in the Euro League play-off match on Thursday. Trabzonspor will face Liverpool at home and Fenerbahce will face rested Greek team PAOK in Istanbul.

While Liverpool plays a league match on Monday , Fenerbahce's opponent PAOK will wait Thursday

Also on Monday Night, Kasimpasa will face Bucaspor in Istanbul.

COULD TRABZONSPOR DO IT AGAIN?

Three teams from Turkey, Galatasaray,Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor are going to play their first leg match in the UEFA Europa League play-off round , on Thursday.

Out of three Trabzonspor team will have the world's attention because they will face the world class team, Liverpool.


Liverpool, just like Fenerbahce , missed the chance to play in the Champions League..

The last time two team met it was 34 years ago...

In the first match, than, Trabzonspor the Cinderella team pulled the upset and beat Liverpool Anfield Road stadium!

In that match , now the coach of the Trabzonspor and Former Turkish National team coach Senol Gunes was in goal for Trabzonspor.

That time, coach of the Trabzonspor was Ahmet Suat Ozyazici now Senol Gunes's Technical Advisor....




(Trabzonspor Team Chairman Sadri Sener ,Technical Advisor Ahmet Suat Ozyazici(coach of 1976 Trabzonspor Team) and coach Senol Gunes in the Anfiled Road Stadium)


It is so coincidence that Senol Gunes's career turn around with Trabzonspor, again!


Actually forgotten Senol Gunes was remembered by Trabzonspor and pulled away from his coaching job in the South Korea to coach to Trabzonspor in the late part of the last season!


He finally got the attention from his home town team ..........

His coming back to Trabzon was little late but well deserved!

That Senol Gunes, after winning the Turkish Cup, earned to play in the UEFA Europa League play-off round.

Who would thought, Senol Gunes will be the coach of Trabzonspor and they will face World class Liverpool again, after 34 years?


That is why this is got to be so special for Senol Gunes...


This does not happened all the time!

But, Trabzonspor lost to second leg match to Liverpool at home with 0-3 score...

34 years ago Things were much different in Trabzon and Turkey!

Then, Trabzonspor played most of their matches on the dirt fields....

They did not have grass fields!

A lot of things has changed since than......

Trabzonspor knows that the task is a difficult this time,,,,

Liverpool may be arguably the most difficult opponent in the Europa League playoff but Trabzonspor has established a good team under Senol Gunes.

They have a lot of good talents on the team......

My only worry with Trabzonspor is their young keeper Onur Kivrak!

This is going to be his biggest match in his career ....

He is good keeper but, can he handle the pressure of Anfield Road stadium?

That is the biggest question mark.....

If Trabzonspor wants to win or draw this match Onur Kivrak should play flawlessly.

"BESIKTAS HAS ONE FOOT IN"

Turkey's star studded team Besiktas beat HJK Helsinki with 2-0 score in the first leg of their Europa League ties.

Besiktas had started 8 foreign players in this match!

There were only Turkish players on the first eleven.....



Goals from Roberto Hilbert and Ricardo Quaresma(q7) gave Besiktas an advantage heading into next week's second leg of their Europa League play-off against HJK Helsinki.


German Hilbert opened the scoring in the 35th minute and Portuguese international Quaresma followed up with a crucial second midway through the second half to wrap up a 2-0 win.


After the match , Besiktas coach Schuster said , "we could say we have the one foot in the Euro League"



Statidum: BJK Inonu

Referees: Ovidiu Alin Hategan, Octavian Sovre, Miklos Istvan Nagy (Romania)

Besiktas: Cenk, Ekrem, Zapotocny, Ferrari, Ismail, Hilbert, Tabata (min. 70 Necip), Ernst, Guti, Quaresma (min. 88 Nihat), Bobo (min. 82 Holosko)

HJK Helsinki: Wallen, Scapini, Magnusson, Ojala, Kansikas, Sorsa, Mattia (min. 75 Karkkaihen), Fowler, Bah, Westo (min. 69 Parikka), Pelvas (min. 46 Makela)
Scorers: Min. 35 Hilbert, min. 66 Quaresma (Besiktas)

Monday Recap....Defending Champs Bursaspor win!

Turkey's only team who will play in the UEFA's Champions League ,Bursaspor won their first match in the Turkish Super league .

The tittle defenders of Turkey won the match but could not hold on the lead...

Because they did not score many goals(4 Goal) like Fenerbahce...

The win was only with one goal against Newly promoted Konyaspor....

Sercan Yıldırım scored the only goal for Bursaspor!


A little note on Konyaspor...

Earlier in the week, before Bursaspor match, Konyaspor ripped, Goal keeper,DANNY Vukovic's contract and this news was big item in the foreign news agencies...

"Vukovic, 25, left the Mariners in June to take up a contract with Turkish Super League club Konyaspor. But Vukovic was informed last week his contract with the Turkish club had been terminated before it began"

DANNY Vukovic and his agent said , they will go to FIFA....

Also on Monday night,Kayserispor started their Turkish SPOR TOTO Super League season with a 2-0 away win over Istanbul BB at the Ataturk Stadium.

Second-half goals from Franco Cangele and Jonathan Santana were crucial for Kayserispor for the win.

At the end of the first week, Fenerbahce is on top with same three points but with more goal average!