Turkish Super League Wrap :Gap drops to 4 points on top !

Week 20, in the Turkish Super Lig, was a clutch week for some teams in the league !

Teams, who were chasing the top team Fenerbahce,  in the league....

Besiktas  won their match  on Friday in Gaziantep with 2-1 score with a little luck this time..

Besiktas still having problem in the last twenty minutes !

While Besiktas and Galatasaray won in the 20th week, first place Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor lost their matches on Sunday ....

On Saturday, Galatasaray  beat  Eskisehir with a score 3-0 , without their world star player Drogba.

A win for Galatasaray, put pressure on Ersun Yanal's Fenerbahce before the Sivas vs Fenerbahce match in Sivas on Sunday!


With Galatasaray winning on Saturday, the gap on top, reduced to 4 points before Sunday's match..

On Sunday, In Sivas , Sivas stunned Fenerbahce with 2-0 score !

It very important to note that the referee Yunus Yildirim made some huge bad calls for both teams...

He did not call  a hand ball in the penalty box area for Fenerbahce....

On another play, He should have giving red card to Raul Meireles for intentional kicking instead he showed him yellow card !

Fenerbahce played the most of the match with 10 men after defender Egemen Korkmaz was red carded by Yunus Yildirim....

Former Fenerbahce player, now rookie coach at Sivasspor , Roberto Carlos won his first match against his former team as a coach!

Best teams of the first half of the season, Fenerbahce, has been slipping lately,,,,,

This is their back to back third away match losses !

10 points gap between Galatasaray has drop to  four points now......

15 weeks to go , the race will be very tight, between Fenerbahce ,Galatasaray and Besiktas, now !

After  the match, Fenerbahce coach Ersun Yanal said, they will win the championship at the end of the season even the gap narrowed !


On the other hand ,Roberto Mancini's Galatasaray playing at home and abroad....

At home, they are in Turkish Cup along with chasing Fenerbahce on top !

At abroad, in the Champions League they made it to round 16 under Mancini and they will face Chelsea ,soon in Istanbul first then in England in March...

Very busy time starts for Galatasaray.....

Could they handle all of this?

During the winter transfer window they have transferred some young legs....

Players like, Drogba, Sneijder, Muslera and Selcuk Inan will be Galatasaray go to guys  at home and abroad.

Galatasaray scored 15 goals in their last four matches while  keeper Muslera ,shut Galatasaray's goal !


While that is what's happening on top, at the bottom,two Kayseri teams; Kayserispor and Kayseri Erciyes is losing blood !

They are dead last two teams at the bottom....

Rize, Elazig and Antalya could be the third team this season to go down if they don't start winning matches!

There are many games to be played but the heat will be all the teams  starting next weekend ...

Trabzonspor losing at home against Akhisar was huge on Sunday!

On Monday night ,week 20 , will come to end with Genclerbirligi vs Karabuk match....

Sunday 9 February Bursaspor  1-1  Antalyaspor Elazigspor  3-0  Kayserispor Sivasspor  2-0  Fenerbahce Trabzonspor  2-4  Akhisar   Saturday 8 February Galatasaray  3-0  Eskisehirspor Erciyesspor  1-1  Rizespor   Friday 7 February Gaziantepspor  1-2  Besiktas Kasimpasa  1-3  Konyaspor

Jermaine Jones sign with Besiktas

Jermaine Jone with Besiktas top (Photo credit : Fanatik.com.tr )

U S A National team player and one of  Klinsmann's  go to guys in the national team Jermaine Jones arrived in Istanbul late last night and today pass the medical test!


He will play for Besiktas , in the second half of the season in Turkish Super Lig...

The hard tackling midfield player will be leader in the midfield for Besiktas..

He just has to play his ball and not to talk to referee so much...

He could be loved by Besiktas season in the rest of the season

Jermaine Jone 32 years old but very aggressive and rugged  soccer player.

He was born in Germany but  decide to play for U.S National team  back in 2009..

He is one of the players  that Klinsmann trust so much....

After his negotiation fell apart with Greek team  , Klinsmann told him find your self a team and play until the World Cup  tournament.

This will be good for , U.S  National team, Jermaine Jones and for Besiktas !

All three parties will benefit from this loan deal ...

This will be huge factor for Besiktas's midfield...

You will see more attacking mode Besiktas from midfield and  Jones will not be scare to take a shots from midfield !

AHMET BOB TURGUT
WWW.TURKISHSOCCER.COM

Fenerbahce started the second half with a win while others slip up !

Fenerbahce extended their lead at the top of the Turkish Super League to 10 points with a 2-1 win over Konyaspor on Monday.

Ersun Yanal's Fenerbahce  came from behind again to claim all three points against relegation threatened Konyaspor, who took the lead after 22 minutes through Angolan striker Djalma.

Fenerbahce fought back and levelled just before half-time thanks to defender Bruno Alves, with centre-back Egemen Korkmaz sealing the victory nine minutes from time.

 Win against Konya, cemented Fenerbahce's position at the summit of the division after second-placed Istanbul rivals Galatasaray could only manage a 0-0 draw at Gaziantepspor on Sunday.

Galatasaray were aiming to win all their matches at home and away and wait for Fenerbahce to drop points. But after Galatasaray was held 0-0 away by Gaziantep in Gaziantep ....

Sivasspor also took advantage of Gala's slip-up with a 3-0 win over bottom club Kayserispor that moves Roberto Carlos' men into third, just two points adrift of Roberto Mancini's team.

French midfielder Aatif Chahechouhe put Sivasspor in command with a second-half double, and defender Ziya Erdal capped things off on 82 minutes shortly after Sereno had been sent off for the visitors.

Kasimpasa fall to fourth as a result of a goalless draw against Karabukspor, while Hugo Almeida's 85th minute effort earned Besiktas a 1-1 draw at Trabzonspor.

At the bottom of the table Elazigspor sealed a third win in four league games with a 2-1 triumph over Akhisar Belediyespor but Kayseri Erciyesspor's hopes of survival remain slim following a 3-1 loss to Antalyaspor.

Elsewhere, Brazilian striker Fernandao scored twice in Bursaspor's 3-1 win over 10-man Eskisehirspor and Genclerbirligi defeated Rizespor by the same scoreline.

Turkish Court upholds Fenerbahce chairman sentence over match-fixing

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A top court in Turkey upheld a match-fixing sentence for Fenerbahce chairman Aziz Yildirim on Friday, in a decision that partially approved a local court ruling that had convicted 93 defendants in connection with the case two years ago, local media reported.

In 2012, Yildirim appealed against the ruling that sentenced him to six years and three months in prison for match-fixing in Turkey's top league and forming an unarmed crime gang for this purpose. Yildirim had served one year in prison pending trial.

The court's ruling will also prevent Yildirim from working for the club.

UEFA also banned Besiktas and Fenerbahce from European competitions for match-fixing.

Scores of individuals, including agents, former players and club managers were arrested in two waves of the probe, with Yildirim being the highest-profile figure.

First Turkish referee in World Cup in 40 years!

Cuneyt Cakır was among the 25 referees named by FIFA in Bern, Switzerland, on Wednesday for this year's World Cup finals in Brazil. The 37-year-old Çakır will thereby become the first Turkish referee since 1974 -- four decades to be more accurate -- to officiate in a World Cup tournament. His assistants will be Bahattin Duran and Tarık Ongun. 

Retired Doğan Babacan, now 84, was the first Turk to officiate a World Cup tournament -- the 1974 FIFA World Cup in Germany. 

World Cup final referee Howard Webb of England was also named by FIFA. The list included nine referees from Europe, five from South America, four from Asia, three each from Africa and the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and one from Oceania. Each referee was selected as a part of a team including two linesmen. 

Felix Brych was picked from Germany, Carlos Velasco from Spain and Nicola Rizzoli from Italy, while there were no referees from France. Sandro Ricci was named as Brazil's referee and Nestor Pitana Argentina's. 

Brych was involved in the so-called phantom goal match during a Bundesliga clash between Bayer Leverkusen and Hoffenheim in October. He awarded a Stefan Kiessling goal for Leverkusen after failing to see that the ball had entered the net through a hole in the side. 

Englishman Webb handed out 14 yellow cards and one red in the Spain-Netherlands final in 2010, although he was widely criticized for failing to send off any Dutch players in a wild first half as Spain went on to win 1-0 after extra time. 

“FIFA has implemented a comprehensive programme to ensure that the referees for its flagship competition are in peak condition,” the world soccer's governing body said in a statement. 

“The referees selected for the World Cup in Brazil have been chosen based especially on their personality and their quality in football understanding by being able to read the game and the teams' tactical approaches towards each game.” 

The referees at a glance: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan), Yuichi Nishimura (Japan), Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain), Benjamin Williams (Australia), Noumandiez Doue (Ivory Coast), Bakary Papa Gassama (Gambia), Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria), Joel Aguilar (El Salvador), Mark Geiger (United States), Marco Antonio Rodriguez (Mexico), Enrique Osses (Chile), Nestor Pitana (Argentina), Sandro Ricci (Brazil), Wilmar Roldan (Colombia), Carlos Vera (Ecuador), Peter O'Leary (New Zealand), Felix Brych (Germany), Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey), Jonas Eriksson (Sweden), Bjorn Kuipers (Netherlands), Milorad Mazic (Serbia), Pedro Proenca (Portugal), Nicola Rizzoli (Italy), Carlos Velasco (Spain), Howard Webb (England).

(Source :Cihan News Agency )

Breaking News... TFF Decided to Replay Kasimpasa vs Besiktas Match!

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Turkish Football Federation press spokesman Mete Duren said, TFF board has decided to replay  Kasimpasa vs Besiktas match  which ended with Kasimpasa winning it 2-1 ,!

The match was played on December 15th,2013 in Kasimpasa Recep Tayyip Erdogan Stadium...

Both teams has to use same roster lineup in the replay match.

In this match Kasimpasa player Ryan Donk attack game ball with a second ball in the match !

Kasimpasa’s Ryan Donk throws second ball at match ball to stop attack

Let's Meet Izet Hajrovic

Let's Meet Izet Hajrovic 
By Aydin Reyhan 

Galatasaray is a club that has recently been known to sign big-name players such as WesleySneijder and Didier Drogba to help bull doze their way through the Champions League andSuper League. Little did anyone know that management had plans to bring over some rising stars from lesser leagues around Europe.
Why would this team want to bring in a younger guy from a league that cannot even measure up to the Turkish one?
Simple: this kid has a bright future.
Before we get to who he is, let us take a look at an up-and-coming winger who will shine for the Portuguese international senior side one day:Bruma. Galatasaray purchased his rights over the summer from Sporting Lisbon for a whopping €12 million after he impressed in the U-20 FIFA World Cup with goals and assists. However, at the club level, he still has to reach his full potential, but let us remember that he is still only 19.
The reason why Bruma needed to be mentioned is because the new kid on the block is 22 and is aBosnian international. He scored the game-winner in Slovakia from distance in the 77th minute to make it 2-1. Who is he?
Izet Hajrovic — a 22-year-old winger who plies his trade in Switzerland for Grasshopper.
The youngster played at the youth level for Switzerland, but chose to pledge his international future to Bosnia where he has now scored one goal in four appearances. His name shone above the likes of Edin Dzeko andMiralem Pjanic – two men whose names are still on the rise after all this time on the international stage.
If and when Hajrovic joins Galatasaray, he is expected to make an immediate impact on the right or left flank. He has speed, strength, skill and confidence which are all needed when it comes to playing for the best Turkish club in history. He will fight for a spot in the starting 11 and look to impress in a formation that will suit his style: 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 or 3-5-2.
The Champions League Round of 16 is a series that he can participate in since he only played in the Europa League for Grasshopper. If he plays well in this competition as well as domestically, a starting spot is more than possible for Bosnia in their first ever World Cup this summer in Brazil.
Hajrovic to Galatasaray can be a move that goes down in history.