Fikret Arıcan (17 July 1911 – 25 May 1993) was a

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and

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of Turkish sports club Fenerbahçe SK between 1984 and 1986. He was regarded as one of the best Turkish football players of the pre-war era. He was born in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

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. He started his football career with Fenerbahçe when he was 12. He also managed the football team twice between 1945 and 1947 and in 1955. Fikret Arıcan played eight times for the Turkey national team between 1931 and 1937 and scored two goals. He was also part of Turkey's squad at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

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