Jogaram em Bruxelas, no King Baduin Stadium, para um público de 30.131 pessoas, as seleçõs da Bélgica (68º do ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Turquia (39º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
08-12-1957 - Turquia 1x1 Bélgica - Amistoso
26-10-1958 - Bélgica 1x1 Turquia - Amistoso
31-08-1996 - Bélgica 2x1 Turquia - Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
30-04-1997 - Turquia 1x3 Bélgica - Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
19-06-2000 - Turquia 2x0 Bélgica - Eurocopa
28-04-2004 - Bélgica 2x3 Turquia - Amistoso
24-05-2006 - Bélgica 3x3 Turquia - Amistoso
10-09-2008 - Turquia 1x1 Bélgica - Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
O quarteto de arbitragem desse jogo, foi o seguinte:
Árbitro: Matteo TREFOLONI-ITA
Primeiro Assistente: Cristiano COPELLI-ITA
Segundo Assistente: Massimiliano GRILLI-ITA
Quarto Árbitro: Luca Banti-ITA
Aos 7 minutos do primeiro tempo, o camisa 9, Emile MPENZA, abriu o placar para a seleção da Bélgica. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United visit the hostile environment of Besiktas in their opening game of the Champions League group stage. United will be looking to start the new campaign with a victory but the Turkish champions will be no pushovers. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United visit the hostile environment of Besiktas in their opening game of the Champions League group stage. United will be looking to start the new campaign with a victory but the Turkish...
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Time to consider options?

Reports in Greece, claim website IMScouting.com, suggest Olympiakos plan to offer Tottenham's Giovani Dos Santos an escape route on loan but they face competition from Turkish rivals Besiktas who are keen on the Mexican misfit. (Daily Mail)

It appears that the Greek side Olympiakos are only interested in a loan deal for the young Mexican but the Turkish outfit Besiktas would be interested in signing the £6m attacker on a permanent deal, perhaps Harry Redknapp is better off opting to send the former Barcelona man out on loan because the 20 year old has undoubted potential but could well suffer the fate of a good many Tottenham players who were at the club prior to the former Pompey manager's arrival.

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1970 senesinde Northampton-Manchester United Fa Cup maçı sonrası Northampton'da bir yerel gazete küpürü. United nispeten zayıf rakibini 8 gol ile dağıtırken George Best bu gollerin 6'sını atmış. Başlık da manidar olmuş. Tam olarak karşılığını veremesemde "United'ın İyi'si fazla iyiydi! Click to continue reading...

Turkish Club BESIKTAS has announced on its web that they havecome to a complete agreement with VILLAREAL TurkishInternational NIHAT for the next three years. Now what is neededis that both Besiktas & Villareal come to a transfer agreement,something that the Turkish Club President Yildirim Demirorenclaims to have already with a 4M€ deal, but cannot be confirmedhere from Spanish Club Villareal as Click to continue reading...

Sinan'ın da son dönemde diğer gurbetçilerin maruz kaldığı dışlanma politikası ile karşı karşıya kalacağını düşünüyordum ki yanılmışım. Fatih Terim hafta içi oynanacak 2 hazırlık maçı için kadroya çağırmış Sinan'ı. Özellikle son 10 yılda pek çok gurbetçi oyuncu Milli Takım'da oynamıştı ama Kaleci mevkisinde Türkiye dışında alt yapı eğitimi almış bir kaleci herhalde A milli takım için ilk olacak. Click to continue reading...

(Arsenal-Villareal 1-0. Strepitoso pallonetto di Walcott che si mostra lucidissimo a pochi passi dal portiere avversario)
(Arsenal-Villareal 2-0. Ancora in rete Adebayor, come nel match di andata. Il togolese chiude il match con uno stop e tiro di destro di gran classe)
(Arsenal-Villareal 3-0, Van Persie su calcio di rigore decreta il trionfo dei Gunners)
ARSENAL (4-4-2): Fabianski; Eboué, Touré, Silvestre, Gibbs; Walcott (31'st Denilson), Fabregas, Song, Nasri; Adebayor (37'st Bendtner), van Persie (31'st Diaby). Click to continue reading...

Robin van Persie is fit and starts for the Arsenal and teams up with Emmanuel Adebayor up front. Denilson is relegated on the bench as Eboue starts in place of Sagna at right back with no news so far on why the Frenchman will not start.

UPDATE: According to BBC, Bacary Sagna has a virus.

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Lineups are up kickoff just under 45 minutes away. I'm hoping to catch bits of the game but that could be more difficult than I think.

Villarreal: Diego Lopez, Angel, Godin, Rodriguez, Capdevila, Cani, Senna, Eguren, Ibagaza, Rossi, Llorente. Subs: Viera, Pires, Franco, Fernandez, Nihat, Javi Venta, Fuentes.

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The legend that is Robert Pires will face Arsenal for the first time since leaving the London for tonight's opposition - Villareal CF. The Frenchman's last game for the Gunners was the 2005/06 Champions League final, when he was substituted off early in the match after Jens Lehmann was sent off.

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Hoy es el día en el que El Madrigal se viste de fiesta para recibir al Arsenal de Cesc y Almunia. Hay cuentas pendientes entre ambos equipos, que ya se viesen las caras en el 2006, con aquel fatídico penalti fallado por Riquelme y que privó a los castellonenses de disputar la final de la Champions League contra el Barça de Rijkaard.

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La embarcación española no zozobró y salió indemne del choque del Bernabéu; el mar de dudas provocado por la tormenta otomana no fue suficiente para derrotar al cuadro local, que cuajó su peor actuación desde que es comandado por Vicente Del Bosque. Un solitario tanto de Gerard Piqué, que realizaba su debut en partido oficial con [. Click to continue reading...

Esta noche la Selección española mide su buen estado de forma contra la peligrosa Turquía en un encuentro válido para la clasificación del Mundial 2010 en Sudáfrica. Del Bosque tirará de Cazorla para suplir la baja obligada de Andrés Iniesta. El Bernabéu promete ser escenario de buen fútbol en que dos de las favoritas del [. Click to continue reading...

This one was tougher than I thought it would be, since if you#8217;re playing in Champions League you#8217;re pretty much by definition a well-known player, but eventually 9 out of 11 did get guessed. (And you#8217;ll die a little inside and say #8220;D#8217;oh!#8221; when you see who the other two were. Click to continue reading...

Well this is just SUSPICIOUS (in the best of ways).  Looks like another Villarreal striker has gone down injured today.  Guille Franco now joins Rossi and Nihat on the injured list after hurting his knee in training this afternoon.  According to VillarrealUSA the injury is, "nothing to worry about in the long run, but enough [. Click to continue reading...

Former Liverpool playmaker and Australian international, Harry Kewell, is set to move to Turkey's top side, Galatasaray. His move comes at a time when Turkey seem to be exporting some major talent; burgeoned on by an outstanding showing at the European Championships, players such as Tucay and Nihat saw their international football stock rise dramatically! Click to continue reading...

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Bei der Abstimmung zum besten Tor der EM 2008 auf der Website der UEFA hat Wesley Sneijder mit 40% der Stimmen klar gewonnen. Auch in diesem Video mit den Lieblingstoren von Youtube-Benutzer vandervaartowned ist Sneijders herrliches Tor gegen Frankreich die Nummer 1. Die anderen 9 Tore aus seiner Top 10 sind ebenfalls sehenswert, wenngleich die Bildqualität dürftig ist.

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In the end, then, Turkey didn't have quite enough about them to be able to keep Germany at bay but, lord, they have given us some fabulous memories in this tournament and will be sadly missed in the final on Sunday evening. Germany, by contrast, are in the final of another major tournament without having played particularly well last night, and will face the winners of tonight's match between Spain and Russia. Click to continue reading...

As with every major football summer tournament, there are plenty of previously unknown players making themselves heard and putting themselves in the shop window this summer. Premier League sides are on high alert as Euro 2008 comes to an end and players begin to return to their clubs. There's set to be a real interest in the stars of Euro 2008 as the summer transfer activity kicks in. Click to continue reading...

Germany showed their strenght and had no problems against Portugal in the quarter final. On wednesday they will meet Turkey, who can beat any team in the whole world on a good day. They never give up, and will not do it this time either. Their only weakness is that they have a lot of injuries [...] Click to continue reading...

Germany showed their strenght and had no problems against Portugal in the quarter final. On wednesday they will meet Turkey, who can beat any team in the whole world on a good day. They never give up, and will not do it this time either. Their only weakness is that they have a lot of injuries [...] Click to continue reading...

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1. Rovers 'excited' by Ince - Perhaps this is continuity by any means necessary? Ince another branch of the SAF coaching tree and could bring a similar approach/tone to Rovers that Mark Hughes did.
2. Milan confirm Adebayor focus - Don't know how much of this is bluster, but Arsenal really need to hold on to K2.

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Lo que hizo hoy Turquía, y en realidad lo que ha hecho a lo largo de esta Eurocopa, no tiene palabras.
Después del exquisito juego de Holanda, diría que ver a la selección turca ha sido lo mejor de esta edición de la Euro, en donde ha habido buenos juegos y hay buenos equipos, pero sólo estos dos países nos han hecho vibrar verdaderamente a los que no tenemos que ver directamente con las selecciones participantes. Click to continue reading...

EURO 2008 QF
HT Croatia 0:0 Turkey, Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna
Croatia: Pletikosa, Corluka, Robert Kovac, Simunic, Pranjic, Srna, Modric, Niko Kovac, Rakitic, Kranjcar, Olic
Turkey: Rustu, Hamit, Gokhan, Emre, Hakan, Mehmet, Sabri, Tuncay, Arda, Nihat, Kazim
The day's Viennese heat had cooled inside the Prater by kick-off, but the temperature was always goingto be stoked by the passionate Turkish fans and their Croatian counterparts, who outnumbered them substantially inside the bowl. Click to continue reading...

First of all, let me say what a super performance Germany gave last night. They tactically outclassed Portugal from the get go and thoroughly deserved their win. Anyway, enough of yesterday, now for today's big clash. Before yesterday, I'd have put my house on Croatia winning this game, now I'm not so sure I don't [. Click to continue reading...

A thrilling group stage has gone the way of the snows of yesteryear and the car keys of late last night, but before we move on to the quarterfinals let's take a moment to name the best goal from the third round of games. Well, I'll take a moment to name one. You take a [...] Click to continue reading...

Well we're through to the knock-out stages and the final round of the group stages threw up some excellent matches even though all four group winners had already been decided thanks to UEFA's use of 'head to head' results rather than goal difference to decide between teams on equal points.
It was also great that only two teams, Switzerland and the reigning champs, Greece, had been definitely eliminated with one match to play. Click to continue reading...

When it comes to steaming tripe, the footballing press and internet rumour-mongers are the usual culprits. However, this time it is the Czech Republic keeper Peter Cech, who let a dodgy porker leave his cakehole. Cech - in a coffee-splutteringly terrible excuse - claimed that there was "water on the ball" [. Click to continue reading...

Slowly but surely, the records are being broken. It feels as if, one by one, new legends are being created on an almost daily basis at Euro 2008, and last night we had a new one to add to the list: the greatest comeback by an international team in the finals of a competition. To be honest about it all, the first seventy-five minutes of last night's match between Turkey and the Czech Republic were fairly ordinary. Click to continue reading...

Player of the Day: Nihat. Is there any other choice?

Goat of the Day: Petr Cech. I'm convinced he was replaced by an impostor during halftime. It's the only explanation, right?

Fans of the Day: The lovely adult film actresses to the left who decided to paint their bodies in the colors of the German and Austrian national team colors before participating in some beach event.

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I was going to use this part to talk of players that I think should and/or will be sold, but I've decided to do one more installment of possible acquisitions. Some have been rumored, while others I've just thrown in there just in case, you know, Rafa is reading.
Sulley Muntari, CM, Portsmouth - Supposedly a replacement for Mascherano if we fail to sign the Argentine on a permanent. Click to continue reading...

Nihat Kahveci, Villareal
Apparently I'm behind the times on this guy, but I'm glad I finally caught up with the rest of the world. For a midfielder, the Turkish International is a goal-scoring machine. He began his career with Beşiktaş J.K., where he scored 28 goals in 114 matches, then moved on to Spain, signing with Real Sociedad in 2002. Click to continue reading...

The Spanish side administered a beat down to FC BATE 4-1 at Estadio El Madrigal with all four goals being somewhat impressive. The first one by Turkish forward Nihat is from a free kick from well outside of the box. Twelve minutes later, veteran Brazilian midfielder Marcos Senna made it 2-0 with an absolute cracker of a strike also well outside of the box. Click to continue reading...