Giray Bulak, Mersin's new coach!

Giray Bulak (R) signs a contract deal with Mersin İdman Yurdu at a press conference with the participation of the club chairman Ali Kahramanlı (L). AA photo






Mersin Idman Yurdu of Turkish super league  signed with coach Giray Bulak on Thursday.

After sacking their former coach Nurullah Saglam on  December 15th, Giray Bulak was the one of the coaches that Mersin did want to sign.....


There were another names like, Mustafa Denizli, Hakan Kutlu, Yucel Idiz......

Giray Bulak resigned from his current job at Trabzonspor as general manager before accepting the job.

He said " “I asked permission from Trabzonspor to work in Mersin "

Journeyman Bulak,  has worked with many teams in the last two decades of his career .....

Giray Bulak started to coaching at Trabzonspor Club with coaching the Trabzonspor Junior team back in 1983.
Since then , he has coached ,Zonguldak,Karabuk, Rize, Van, Elazig,  Goztepe, Konya,Trabzon, Antalya,Denizli, Ankara, Manisa , Rize again ...

He was assistant coach to coach Urbain Breams (89-90 ) and coach George Leekens( 1992 )

Giray Bulak was head coach for Trabzonspor in 1999 -2000 season...

In 1989,  Giray Bulak worked and trained with Ipswich Town.....

Mersin is at 17th place with 15 points in the Turkish Super League....

Struggling Mersin, are in danger zone of Turkish Super league just before the first half is about to be over this coming weekend...

Bulak said, he will make some changes in the team......

Rustu Recber Still Thinking About Philadelphia Union!

With a doubt he is the best goal keeper in the modern times of Turkish Football....

Rustu Recber....

Great career with Turkish National team, Fenerbahce and Besiktas!

He made a name for him self in the 1990's with Turkish National team in the European Championship matches and in the 2002 World Cup.......

Recently he played with Besiktas team who are on second place in the Turkish Super League......

According to him and his agent Ahmet Bulut, Philadelphia Union, MLS team made him a offer...

I Talked to Rustu Recber ,about this yesterday,,,,,,,,,

And Scott Kessler from  brotherlygame.com ,web site , wrote the article...

Here is the article,,,,,,,

Rüştü Reçber: Still Open To Proposals After Rejecting Union's Contract Offer

http://www.brotherlygame.com/rumors/2012/12/18/3779754/rustu-recber-philadelphia-union-mls-besiktas-turkey

Fenerbahce Perfect in Europe

Bekir İrtegün (Fenerbahçe SK)

Bekir İrtegün of Fenerbahçe SK celebrates after scoring a goal during the UEFA Europa League group stage match against Olympique de Marseille

©AFP/Getty Ima

Fenerbahce played  five matches in the Europa League.....

And  They won four and draw one !

Fenerbahce under Aykut Kocaman has won their last four matches in the group....

Yesterday beating  Marseille  was cream of top for Fenerbahce and Fenerbahce fans....

Fenerbahce and Aykut Kocaman was under a lot of pressure!


Winning this match in France was very good ....

Defender Bekir Irtegun's spectacular  half scissor kick goal was something to see!

In the forty minute , Bekir Irtegun  chested down Baroni's cross and did a half scissor kick over his head  and  send the ball over Dirk Kuyt's head in to the Marseille's net....

This was the only goal in this match.....

Fenerbahce did not played superb  but managed to win this very important match in France...


With this win, Fenerbahce sit on top of  Group C with  13 points ...

Second place Monchengladbach  is with 8 points and Fenerbahce will face then in the last match...

As a result of this match, Marseille went out and Fenerbahce earned a spot in the UEFA Europa League round of 32!


Although Fenerbahce won this match, they can't play like this in the Group of 32 matches,,,,

If they do, they will be punished!


Against, Marsielle, if we look at the stats,,,,,,,

Marseille is ahead of Fenerbahce in every column!

Accurate passes,,,, Marseille 86 , Fenerbahce 79....

Possession,,,,, Marseille 52,9 , Fenerbahce  $47.1 ....

Corners.... Marseille 6 , Fenerbahce 1.....

Total passes...Marsielle 434, Fenerbahce  408....

The only difference is, Fenerbahce's goal !

 And  let's not forget that goal was scored by defender not by goal scorers!

Lastly, this was huge win for Fenerbahce in France....

With beating Marsielle in France they stayed perfect this season in the UEFA's Europa League and  they are going to round of 32, as group leader,,,,

AHMET B TURGUT 

Galatasaray Live, After Beating Manchester United!

 
 A CLASS ACT BY SIR ALEX FERGUSON!
After losing against Galatasaray, Sir Alex Ferguson visited Terim in his room and enjoyed a glass of Turkish  wine  with Galatasaray official  A.Albayrak and Galatasaray coach Fatih Terim...









It was a must win match for  Fatih Terim's boys....

And they did it!

Red Devils who already clinch the top spot in the group came to Istanbul with a lot of young talents!

Some people called it ....

United's Kids !

What ever the case is, Manchester United was playing on the pitch.....

That's why  Coach Terim was hopeful to beat Manchester United before the match..

He said they were going to win this match about three days before the match!

Motivator  Fatih Terim, won  a very important match in the group with his best know skill..


Pep talked the players and motivate them to the important match,,,,,,,

A loss for Galatasaray and Fatih Terim wouldn't be nice....

And they knew this...

After losing at home against Karabuk in the league match !

With this win Galatasaray moved to second  place with 7 points while third place Cluj at same points too


So, Galatasaray's last match in the group against Braga  is very important if they want to go advance to next round in the Champions League,.,,,,


They also will need a need hep from Red Devils who will play against Cluj !

Braga is already out of the competition ....

Galatasaray's only goal scorer Burak Yilmaz added one more goal to his goals ...

Burak Yilmaz  have five goal in  the Champions League so far...


What they said........

FATIH TERIM : “We played brilliantly and unselfishly. My players played football in a way we have been expecting for a long time.”

“We are very hopeful for second place,” he added. “There is no guarantee in football, but we will play well at Braga, who no longer have any chance.”

ALEX FERGUSON : “Parts of the game were good, but in the area which we were worried about — set pieces — we suffered.

“Other than that I was satisfied and it was a decent performance, we had some good attacking play in the first half and at that point, the only trouble they gave us was from outside the box”.

AHMET TURGUT

World Cup Dreams Pretty Much Over for Turkey!

The dreams of Abdullah Avci ,Turkish National team players and Turkish football fans, are basically pretty much over...

Four matches and only three points and six matches left to play in the group!

There is no way Turkey will win their last six matches with this coach and with this team....

Lack of international experience  is big factor for Abdullah Avci....

If you look at his resume his resume, he was coaching Junior youth teams in the early 2000's and started to coach  Turkish Super League team IBB in 2006...


Photo(A.A)

Abdullah Avci - Coach data sheet 

 His international experience at this level, is none.....

He might be good person but he is not a leader in this team....

Ask , Hamit Altintop that!


After Hungary match Hamit  Altintop said, " Our coach is very nice gentleman but in the locker room he is to soft to some players"


Problem is here!

Turkey played four matches under Abdullah Avci and we saw different  line-up ...


Lastly, there is no reason for Abdullah Avci to resign now...

The dreams of  World Cup in Brazil in 2014 are over for Turkey.....

We should have Abdullah Avci, finish these last six matches and build for 2016 European Championship!

It hurts to see Turkish National team go down this early in any competition....

Sorry to say but this is exactly Abdullah Avci's fault....

Because he did not delivered what he promised!

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Hungary 3- Turkey 1....

Hungary beat Turkey 3-1 in Budapest in the group D qualification match, and  Turkish National team now needs a miracle to secure a ticket to Brazil  for the 2014 finals. 

Turkey opened the scoring with a goal from Mevlut Erdinc in the 22nd minute but was unable to preserve its advantage, conceding goals to Hungary's Vladimir Koman in the 31st minute and Adam Szalai in the 50th minute. Zoltan Gera's penalty in the 57th minute made the score 3-1 for Hungary.

To Be or Not To Be Time for Turkish National Team

This is it....


Today , The match against Hungary will start something for good turn or will end the dreams for Turkey and Abdullah Avci!

Turkish National team played three matches so far under Abdullah Avci in this group and earned only three
points!

There are six more matches after tonight's match against  Hungary...

Holland and Romania are perfect in three matches while Hungary earned six points in three matches!

Turkey's and  Abdullah Avci's goal should have been second place in the group, not the first place, as Avci stated in the beginning of these matches!

That was big mistake and foolish announcement by rookie international coach Abdullah Avci...

 Last three matches filled with mistakes by him ...

Turkish Football does not want those mistakes to be repeated in this match!

But, Turkish National team is  missing some important players in this match...

Gokhan Gonul, Arda Turan, Selcuk Inan ,, Mehmet Topal......

I know one thing, Avci will have hard time,  making today's line-up!

WE could for sure know, in goal, Volkan Demirel will play....

On defense that's where he will make some changes.....

Changes like....


Playing Hamit Altintop on defense rather then play him in the middle!

In the midfield, we could see Nuri Sahin and Emre Belezoglu.....


Upfront , Caner and Mevlut could be his players on top...

What ever the line up  is, Avci, should know this.........

He and his boys should win this match!

I think, Turkey will pull a win today if only, Avci reacts to play, from sideline...

That is his biggest weakness !

The match will start on 14:30 ET, will be televised by Star TV in Turkey and by ESPN3 here in the United States....

2012 TABLES: WC QUAL - UEFA

TEAM	P	W	D	L	GD	PTS
Netherlands	3	3	0	0	8	9
Romania	3	3	0	0	7	9
Hungary	3	2	0	1	3	6
Turkey	3	1	0	2	0	3
Estonia	3	0	0	3	-6	0
Andorra	3	0	0	3	-12	0

Turkey 0- Romania 1

Turkey Shocked in 1-0 Home Loss Against Undefeated Romania


Coach Avci has a lot to ponder after this shocking loss

Romania visited Istanbul, Turkey to face a nation who want to be victorious to avoid another qualifying blow by winning and jumping up to six points, which would level them with the visitors. However, Romania scored the only goal in the final minute of the first half to shock the nation of seventy million.

Gheorghe Grazev caught the Turkish defensive line sleeping when he sprinted to the top of the 18 and blasted a long range shot into an empty net as Volkan Demirel was only inches away from him. 1-0 was the score, and it stayed that way for the entire second half.

Turkey started out strong in the second half: possession, defending, and overall control of the game. The one aspect they lacked however was taking a clear shot at goal until the end of the game.

Early in the second, left back Hasan Ali Kaldirim took a shot form outside the area which met the grateful arms of the keeper. There was no danger whatsoever.

Arda Turan crept inside the area after cutting past the defender then sent a slow, low, rushed shot right at the keeper. He could have done a bit more with that.

In the final two minutes of added time, Arda Turan breezed by a defender inside the left of the 18 but rushed a cross which was easily cleared by the defense.

The final chance which was arguably the best arrived a minute later when a cross from the left was headed over the bar from a wide open Nuri Sahin. He isn’t known for heading in goals, but he certainly could have done better there.

Now, Turkey sit with three points, six behind Romania and by the same amount behind the Netherlands, if their lead over Andorra holds.

On Tuesday, Turkey will travel to Hungary while undefeated sides Romania and the Netherlands will meet in Bucharest.

Aydin Reyhan
AReySportsNews