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BeyoÄŸluspor Footballers
Beyoğlu Spor Kulübü, also known as the Beyoğlu Sports Club, or by its historic Greek name of Athlitikós Sýllogos Péran (), or Pera Sports Club, is an amateur sports club based in Istanbul, Turkey. It fields teams in football, basketball, volleyball and table tennis. History Since the second half of the 19th century the Greek community of Constantinople founded several sports clubs and organized sports activities such as the ''Pan-Constantinopolitan Games''. The club claims it was founded in Pera in 1877, by three local Greek intellectuals, K.D. Kostarakis, I.A. Zervoudakis and A.K. Stefopoulos, as "Clio Sports Club". In 1886, it was renamed to "Hermes Sport Club", in which the football department was founded in 1914 and was renamed to "Greek Football Team". In 1922 it was renamed to "Pera Sports Club". With the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, it was formally registered as "Beyoğlu Spor Kulübü". Until 1926, the club's activities were housed in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul Football League
The Istanbul Football League () was founded as a regional association football, football league under the name Constantinople Football Association League by James La Fontaine and Henry Pears in Istanbul, the capital of the former Ottoman Empire, in 1904. The Istanbul League was the first football organization ever in the Ottoman Empire and later Turkey. In the inaugural 1904–05 season the matches between the four teams, Moda F.C., Moda FC, HMS Imogene F.C., HMS Imogene, Elpis F.C., Elpis FC, and Cadi-Keuy F.C., Cadi-Keuy FC were played on Sundays, leading to the name of the league, Istanbul Sunday League. Henry Pears, an Englishman and one of the three founders, promised to ultimately award the shield to the club with the most championships won during the initial 10 years. The Istanbul Friday League was founded in 1915 and replaced the Istanbul Sunday League. Seven teams participated in its inaugural 1915–16 Istanbul Football League, 1915–16 season. From 1923–24 to 1950†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koço Kasapoğlu
Koço Kasapoğlu (; 15 November 1935 – 5 April 2016), also known as Yorgo or Kostas Kasapoğlu, was a Greek-Turkish football player and manager. A forward, throughout his career he was also nicknamed penaltı kralı (in English Penalty King) because he scored 500 of the 501 penalties he took in his career and is considered the best penalty taker in Turkish football history. Club career Kasapoğlu played for Beyoğluspor, İstanbul S.A.Ş. and Vefa SK, and was considered one of the most iconic captains of İstanbulspors history, International career He capped for Turkey for once on 25 November 1956 in Praha in a 1–1 tie against Czechoslovakia. He also played for Turkey B national football team. Death Kasapoğlu died on 5 April 2016, at the age of 80. He remained a lifelong fan of İstanbulspor A.Ş. İstanbulspor Kulübü is a Turkish association football, football and sports club founded by Istanbul High School students in 1926. In 2004–05, they were relegated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Themos Asderis
Themos Asderis (; 1900 – 22 March 1975) was a Greek footballer who played as a defender in the 1920s and a later manager. He was considered a pioneer for the Greek football and he was one of the main founders of Pera Club and AEK Athens. Club career Early years Born in Constantinople in 1900 Asderis started playing football from a young age, at the only clubs that had a football department at the time, Enosis Tataoulon and later Pera Club. The black July of 1922 struck the Hellenism at Asia Minor and thousands of Greeks were force to flee to Greece. Most of them managed to reach Athens and the 22-year-old Asderis was among them. Struck by misfortune, they soon sought the daily life of the city and two years after the war, they tried to play football in a poor, wounded and suspicious towards the refugees Greece. Some of those people, in a small place in the offices of the Young Men's Christian Brotherhood of Athens in the center of city, that were housed on Mitropoleos Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kostas Negrepontis
Kostas Negrepontis (; 31 October 1897 – 19 February 1973) was a Greek footballer who played as a center forward in the 1920s and 1930s and a later manager. He was considered a great virtuoso of the ball, a football intelligence and a great shooter. He was a figure and was so dear to his fellows that never left their memory. Those who lived near him, those who worked with him, spoke with admiration about "Negro", as the fans called him. Calm, likeable and always optimistic, Negrepontis was the idol of fans and opponents. Negrepontis was one of the pillars of Greek football in his first steps and contributed to it both as a footballer, as a coach and as well as a football teacher for prospective coaches. He was distinguished for his passion, selflessness in terms of the progress of the Greek football, but especially for his beloved AEK. Club career Negrepontis became an official member of the sports family for the first time in 1912. He started his football career as a young pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Şükrü Gülesin
Şükrü Mustafa Gülesin (14 September 1922 – 10 July 1977) was a Turkish football player and sports journalist. Almost two meters tall, he was a strong and quick striker, as well as a free kick and penalty specialist,Cuore Rosanero and played for , , and throughout his career. He scored a total of 226 goals in his entire career, of which 32 came directly by corner kicks (without an assist), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadri Aytaç
Kadri Aytaç (6 August 1931 – 28 March 2003) was a Turkish former Association football, football player and then manager. He played for the Beyoğluspor, Fatih Karagümrük, Karagümrük, Galatasaray S.K. (football), Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe S.K., Fenerbahçe and Mersin İdmanyurdu teams. He is the manager with the most titles earned in the Turkish Second Football League, having in the process promoted four teams to the Turkish First Football League. Player career In the 1958–59 season, Aytaç was the first expensive transfer, when he was transferred from Galatasaray to Karagümrük for TL 57.000. On 25 February 1959, he made the first penalty kick in Fatih Karagümrük, Karagümrük-Vefa S.K., Vefa match and became the first player who missed a penalty in Turkish first division started in 1959. During his playing career, he won Turkish First Football League, league title for two times in 1961 with Fenerbahçe and in 1963 with Galatasaray. Aytaç was capped in Turkey nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Football League System
The Turkish football system is divided into the following leagues. Men Süper Lig Süper Lig is the highest level in the Turkish football league system and is operated by the TFF. Other professional divisions TFF 1. Lig, is the second highest level in the Turkish football league system and is also operated by the TFF. The TFF 2. Lig is the third highest level in the Turkish football league system and is operated by the TFF. The TFF 3. Lig is the fourth highest level in the Turkish football league system and is operated by the TFF. Lower divisions Starting at Level 5. Promotion and relegation can occur through every league. This means a club in the Turkish Regional Amateur League may be promoted to the top flight Süper Lig. There are two stages to being promoted to the Turkish Third League. First, provinces who do not have professional clubs send a club or clubs to play. These provinces are: *2 clubs — Düzce, Edirne, Kırklareli, NevÅŸehir *1 club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TFF 3
TFF may stand for: Festivals * Taipei Film Festival, an annual film festival in Taipei, Taiwan * Taormina Film Fest, international film festival in Taormina * Telluride Film Festival, an annual film festival in Telluride, Colorado, USA * TFF Rudolstadt, a music festival * Torino Film Festival, international film festival in Turin * Tribeca Film Festival, an annual event in New York City, USA Sports * Tajikistan Football Federation * Tanzania Football Federation * Trelleborgs FF, a Swedish football club * Turkish Football Federation Others * Tangential Flow Filtration, a technique in biochemistry * Telematics Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Rome, Italy See also * Time to first fix (TTFF), the time it takes the receiver to calculate a valid GPS position for navigation after it has been switched on * Tears for Fears Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. Founded after the dissolution o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey National Football Team
The Turkey national football team (), recognized as Türkiye by FIFA and UEFA, represents Turkey in men's international Association football, football matches. The team is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation (), the governing body for football in Turkey, which was founded in 1923 and has been a member of FIFA since 1923 and UEFA since 1962. The team played their first official international game in 1923 and has represented the nation in major competitions since their debut appearance at the 1924 Summer Olympics. They have participated in the Summer Olympics a total of six times (1924 Summer Olympics, 1924, 1928 Summer Olympics, 1928, 1936 Summer Olympics, 1936, 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948, 1952 Summer Olympics, 1952, and 1960 Summer Olympics, 1960), and reached the quarter-finals twice, in 1948 and 1952. The team enjoyed their highest achievements in the 2000s, most notably finishing in third place at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, and rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
