Emin Bülent Serdaroğlu (1886 – 28 November 1942) was a Turkish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

, poet, and one of the

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s of

Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...

. He spent the entirety of his career with his hometown club. His grandfather was Serdar-ı Ekrem Ömer Pasha and his father was Ömer Muzaffer Bey. He lost his mother during childhood. He graduated from

Galatasaray High School Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...

in 1905 and became the first Turkish captain of Galatasaray SK.Bugün Newspaper Archive
As a poet, he was a pioneer of the '' Fecr-i Âtî'' ("Dawn of the Future") movement, one of three movements of early

Turkish literature Turkish literature ( tr, Türk edebiyatı) comprises oral compositions and written texts in Turkic languages. The Ottoman and Azerbaijani forms of Turkish, which forms the basis of much of the written corpus, were highly influenced by Persian a ...

. His poets ''Kin'' (1910) and ''Hisarlara Karşı'' are especially well known.

Honours

As player

Galatasaray SK *

Istanbul Football League The Istanbul Football League ( tr, İstanbul Futbol Ligi) was founded as a regional football league under the name Constantinople Football Association League by James La Fontaine and Henry Pears in Istanbul, the capital of the former Ottoman Emp ...

: 1908–09, 1909–10, 1910–11

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Serdaroglu, Emin Bulent 1886 births 1942 deaths Footballers from Istanbul Galatasaray S.K. footballers Galatasaray High School alumni Turkish poets 20th-century poets Association football defenders Writers from Istanbul Turkish footballers