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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Third time is the charm for Fatih Terim with Galatasaray

Fatih Terim and Me ( Ahmet B Turgut ) -1997


His first time was  back in 1996 with  Galatasaray.....

And it was filled with a lot of  achievements!

Winning the European Cup for the first time as a Turkish team and setting records for four years in the Turkish Super League,,,,,,

Winning the Championship for  four strait years in the Turkish Super League,,,,,

 The most important one was winning the European Cup back in 199 -2000 season!

Before the Galatasaray years, Fatih Terim made his name with Turkish National team back in starting 1995

I met  Fatih Terim for the for the first time back in 1990's in New York..........

 Fatih Terim came to New York with Senez Erzik at the time he was Turkish Football Federation President...

I also saw him when he came to Toronto, Canada with Turkish National team  back in 1995 and  when he brought Galatasaray team to USA tour back in 1997........

Terim, got his guiding ship under Sepp Piontek whem he was assistant coach at Turkish National team back in 1990!

With a good generation of players at Galatasaray and in the Turkish National team helped Terim's career to achieve a lot of his goal along with experience players like George Hagi and other Romanian player on the team....

In his first four years at Galatasaray ,Terim had a impressive record!

Winning 133 games out of 204 matches and 44 draw and only 27 loss......

But ,his second  time with Galatasaray  was not that great!

  it was a failure......

His unsuccessful  foreigner players transfer cost Galatasaray big time.....

His second term  did not less that long at the end of one and half season he resigned!

THIRD TIME IS THE CHARM !'

Fatih Terim returned to Galatasaray for a third term back in may of 2011 , when Galatasaray team was really struggling in the league!

With current Chairman Unal Aysal winning the election  , Aysal hired and shook hands with Terim !''

In 2010-2011 season exactly this time Galatasaray was in the 14th  place in the Turkish super league when Terim took Galatasaray team!

With Unal Aysal and his committeemen new vision , Galatasaray with Fatih Terim has been the talk of the Turkish Football around the world.!

Nearly bankrupt Galatasaray team manage  to pay the debt they owed and  got  world class players like Drogba and Sneijder at the January transfer window thanks to Unal Aysal's vision ....

Winning games and being in the Champions League tournament helped Galatasaray pay some of those money that they owed!

What ever the case, Galatasaray is  on right-track so far with Unal Aysal and Fatih Terim...

They are in  the elite eight of the Champions League !

And they will face  world's one of the best teams Real Madrid, come Tuesday......

World's top ten, two coaches Mourinho and Terim will be against each other!

They are friends of the pitch  but they will fight with their tactics on the sideline this Tuesday ...

On the paper, there is no doubt Real Madrid is much stronger team....

But, Terim's motivation from sildeline and his experience player like Drogba, Sneijder and Hamit Altintop  could well cause damage to Real Madrid on Tuesday,,,

Also Galatasaray's goal scoring machine Burak Yilmaz and mastermind  at the midfield Selcuk inan could be a factor in this match....

Fatih Terim's dimond at the midfield  if it works like he wants it, Real Madrid will be in trouble .....

Galatasaray scoring goals in Madrid will help the second match in Istanbul.....

Biggest problem I see with Galatasaray is their defense !

They have to have  a flawless match....

On Tuesday, Galatasaray will be on front of world's eyes, against one of the worlds best team, Real Madrid!

That is good thing for Turkish Football and Turkey.....



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