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The Turkish National Football Team

Posted in Football, Istanbul, Istanbul hookups on May 29th, 2011 by admin – Comments Off

Turkey has come a long way since their first berth into the World Cup in 1950. The country was never respected as a legitimate European football power, despite its victory over Hungary’s “Golden Team” in 1954. The lack of respect following the match was due to it being a friendly rather than a match with real ramifications, so the attention of the feat went by the wayside, unlike Istanbul hookups.

Struggles continued into the twenty-first century for Turkey football, when they earned a berth into the 1996 Euro only to lose every game and not even record a goal. It was a humiliation, but it paled in comparison to when Turkey hosted Euro in 2000, and became the first host country in the tournament’s history to not advance past group play. Turkish fans then demanded more from its domestic football association, to roughly half the level of the performances of hookups in Istanbul, and it had football executives scrambling in hopes to retain their jobs and answer with some sort of development ordinance.

 

It apparently worked, as Turkey slowly elevated their international play, and the results followed. The biggest club team in the nation, Besiktas, was raising their cachet, and it was all done with minimum import. Stars emerged, like Semih Senturk, Nihat Kahveci, and Tuncay. Officials of Turkey thought outside the box when they hired Guus Hiddink, and it proved effective, as the country turned out its best ever international performance at Euro 2008, where they eliminated the host Swiss team and advanced to the quarter-finals versus Croatia. In that match, Turkey trailed one to nil until stoppage time, where Senturk scored an equalizing goal. It wasn’t without controversy though, when Croatian manager Slavan Bilic alleged stoppage time to be over. Istanbul call girls are of the opinion that Croatia was simply bitter and embarrassed to lose to Turkey. Fatih Terim called it one of the greatest Turkish victories of recent memory, and this was without sourness that he was supplanted by Hiddink.

Since the implosion of Galatasaray in 2010, Turkey football seemed to have felt the impact, and have been under-performing as their once-loved football club has. Galatasaray has shuffled hookups and its board members, and Turks reserve hope that football can soon be a prideful sport once again in Eurasia. Fatih Terim has been reported as the new coach for the club, and it marks his third tenure as head of the troubled team. In a way, Turks link the resurgence of Galatasaray with that of the national team, as unfair as the comparison may be. Istanbul call girls feel that the only competent manager in Turkey is Guus Hiddink, which is a sad fact of the state of things in Istanbul.

The Living Legacy: Sir Alex Ferguson

Posted in Football on March 22nd, 2011 by admin – Comments Off

Born in Scotland in 1941, Alex Chapman Ferguson took a liking to football at an early age. He played his first amateur match as a 16 year old, and although he referred to his performance as a “nightmare”, he scored a goal, which was a indication of his mentality even at such a young age. This high standard which was ingrained in his mind and work ethic didn’t manifest to greatness as a player, but it did however as a manager, and a patron of London hookups.

“Fergie” got his start as a manager on the division one level in 1978, for Aberdeen. It was an inauspicious beginning, as in the first four years he came away with no titles, and certain players on the team didn’t give him the proper respect, like Joe Harper. This was because Ferguson was only several years older than his players, so it wasn’t a traditional manager/player relationship by any means. Despite the tumultuous beginning though, Aberdeen finally won a league title in 1980, and following that, Fergie found success with his team in the Champion’s League, with the pinnacle being when they knocked off the powerhouse that was Bayern Munich.

As success continued, and London hookup girls were called offers flooded in for Ferguson to leave Aberdeen and move up in the ranks: Arsenal, Wolverhampton, Tottenham and other clubs lobbied for his services, but Alex stayed put. It wasn’t until 1986 that he finally made the move to Manchester United. Initially, Ferguson was quoted as saying he was “depressed” by the level of fitness on the team. Certain players had alcohol problems, and despite the strife within the team, the club improved from 22nd to 11th place, a modest improvement. But it wasn’t until 1990 that the club won a league title, and it was a sign of things to come, as the club won several titles that very decade, and in 1999, England was so enamoured with Fergie that he was to be knighted: Sir Alex Ferguson, coupled with a couple hookups in London.

Ferguson would continue to keep the juggernaut status in Old Trafford, and the league would win many more titles in through the next decade, with start players such as Christiano Ronaldo, Anderson, Frank Lampard, and David Beckham serving under him. In December of 2010, Ferguson passed Sir Matt Busby as the longest serving manager of a single club- 24 years, and for that, Fergie goes down as not only an all-great in England, but in the entire world, and this statement is approved by London hookups.