GOKSEL GUMUSDAG(L),LUTFU ARIBOGAN (C) ,MEHMET ALI AYDINLAR (R)
Just before 24 hours before, he said he was going to stay as a boss of Turkish Football Federation, despite the pressure from media and some teams!
What happened in the past 24 hour ,that changed, Mehmet Ali Aydinlar's opinion?

There are all kinds of chaos almost every day ,on Turkish TV's and Turkish News Papers, about Turkish football match-fixing scandal while Turkish Super League is going on.....
Jam packed fixture in the Turkish Super League, is very disturbing too...
There are games almost every day, in the league.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, BUT NOT SO HAPPY TURKISH FOOTBALL
First,over the years, people who has follow me here,I would like to wish all of you Happy New Year and thank you, for following my blog...
The year 2011, was UGLY for Turkish Football!
The scandals,allegations,TFF's backtracks and uncertainty in Turkish Football, carried over to 2012!

Good news to Besiktas fans and some others ....
Besiktas Deputy Chairman Serdar Adalı, Besiktas protocol and security chief Ahmet Ates, coach
Tayfur Havutcu, İstanbul Büyüksehir Belediyespor (İBB) players Ibrahim Akın and İskender Alın,
Sivasspor goalkeeper Korcan Celikay and Diyarbakırspor player Abdurrahman Yakut, who were released.

After the week 13, in the Turkish Super League, we have a new top three in the standings!
While Fenerbahce and Galatasaray kept their place in the standing ,after Manisaspor could not win away match in Mersin, Besiktas captured the second place after they beat Orduspor, Monday night in Antalya, Turkey.

Turkish prosecutors investigating a match-fixing scandal in Turkey are expected to file indictments on Monday against 93 suspects, including the chairman of champions Fenerbahce.
More than 30 players and officials, including the Fenerbahce chairman, Aziz Yildirim, have been in jail pending trial, since the scandal broke over the summer, forcing the Turkish Football Federation to delay the start of the season by a month.

Galatasary defender Emmanuel Eboue was on the receiving end of a hail of missiles by rumbustious Besiktas fans at the weekend. The former Arsenal defender cowed and ducked in terror as Turkish football – mired in a cloud of disappointment after the national team failed to qualify for Euro 2012 – once again showed its [.

(AHMET B TURGUT )
After being disappointed with Turkish National team not making the party in Europe, Turkish football fans will focus the Turkish Super League once again...
The chaos in Turkish football since July of this year, did put a big damage on Turkish football and Turkish National team.

NEW COACH ABDULLAH AVCI AND TURKISH FOOTBALL FA PRESIDENT M.ALI AYDINLAR AT THE CEREMONY.
PHOTO BY TFF
Abdullah Avci has been appointed new coach of the Turkish national team, replacing Guus Hiddink.
The Turkish football federation has appointed Abdullah Avci as Turkey coach.

It will be, back to Turkish Super League on Friday with Trabzonspor vs Ankaragucu match..
With a win against Ankaragucu at home could move Trabzonspor to second place with 11 points, before the Saturday, Sunday matches.
There will be three matches on Saturday , four matches on Sunday and one match on Monday in the week 6.

Turkish Super League started twenty days ago and they already played four rounds in this short period due to what happened in Turkish football scandal and TFF's uncertainty on some things!
With the new play- off system this season, teams really focussed on to be in top four at the end of 34 matches.

Still battling that PR campaign which involves ridding the public of the idea that Turkish football is an abode of corruption and fan violence and a place where Felipe Melo celebrates things, they've gone one better from the "women and children only as punishment" for crowd misbehavior. So impressed were they by the atmosphere created by a soprano-heavy crowd, they've decided to allow them in for free.

Take a lesson from Turkey, and ban blokes from Leeds v United

On Wednesday the Turkish Football Federation decided that only women and children would be allowed in to watch Fenerbahce against Manisaspor after repeated crowd trouble from the home side. More than 41,000 turned up to the Istanbul stadium, and according to reports it was sweetness, light and sportsmanship all round: "It was such a fun and pleasant atmosphere," said Manisaspor's Omer Aysan.

Last Wednesday Fenerbache players found themselves playing in front of 41,000 fans, mostly girls and some children, something sure they never imagined in their lives. Yes, no adult men were in stadium at all !!!!!
How it happened?

Men are pigs. Bullish, impatient, mindless, and above all selfish. It is why I only love women. And apparently, so do the Turks. In an effort to punish clubs for crowd trouble while acknowledging that such trouble comes from a small percentage of individuals, the Turkish Football Federation proposed barring all males over the age of 12 from the stands as punishment.

This is an absolute winner for women and football! Last night, 41,663 women and children filled the stadium to watch Turkish side, Fenerbahce play against Manisaspor. The Turkish Football Federation recently took up a decision to ban male supporters from attending games following their acts of hooliganism against Shakhtar Donetsk.

The Turkish Football Federation launches its "broadside" against men

In Iran, women are banned from watching football matches. Jafar Panahi's "Offside" tells the story of several young women who dress up as boys and try and sneak into a 2006 World Cup match between Iran and Bahrain. It is a heartwarming and often comical tale of Iran's youth chafing at the heavy handed social mores skewed against women which are laid down by the orthodox clergy.

Turkish football authorities have pioneered a remarkable anti-hooliganism tactic: allowing only women and children to watch a game. Initially after violence marred a Fenerbahce match authorities had decided to ban all fans from two games. Then someone instead suggested only allowing certain fans.

Slowly, we're taking over the football world. Image: AP Photo.

With misbehaviour by fans in Europe plummeting to new depths of depravity, football associations are becoming increasingly innovative in their sanctions.

So congratulations to the Turkish Football Federation (TFF), whose latest punishment is in honour of the firecracker wielding, pitch invading supporters who've been troubling their fixtures as of late.

TRABZONSPOR KEEPER.... TOLGA ZENGIN
First Trabzonspor in Italy than, Besiktas at home in Istanbul gave something to simile to Turkish football fans after Turkish football rocked with negative news about Turkish football...
They shocked the world and beat Inter in Italy 0-1.

The Pot 4 Club Trabzonspor is a post from: Just Football

The Pot 4 Club continues on Just Football with an analysis of Trabzonspor from the creators of Turkish-Futbol.com:

Club: Trabzonspor

Straight outta': Turkey

Group: B with Internazionale, Lille and CSKA Moscow

Brief History

Trabzonspor are a professional sports club based in the city of Trabzon which is located on Turkey's north east Black Sea coast.

The day has come ladies and Gentleman!
After all struggles,crises and broken promises,Turkish Spor Toto Super League will finally get going, this weekend, starting this Saturday.
First, TFF officials said the league was suppose to start on August 5th!
But that did not happened because of the scandal in Turkish Football!

Before the Turkish Super League new season start on this coming Saturday, Super League teams officials met in Ankara.
Fenerbahce deputy chairmen Nihat Ozdemir and Ali Koc, Besiktaş Chairman Yıldırım Demirören, Trabzonspor Chairman Sadri Sener and Galatasaray manager Adnan Özturk were in attendance at the meeting.

The draw for the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League has taken place amid some controversy in Monaco this afternoon. Less than 24 hours after Turkish champions Fenerbahçe were forced to withdraw from the competition by the Turkish Football Federation, the inclusion of Turkish League runners up Trabzonspor in the draw raised some eyebrows.

European soccer's governing body decided on Wednesday to replace Turkish champions Fenerbahce with league runners-up Trabzonspor in the Champions League group stage draw.
The UEFA Emergency Panel, composed of the UEFA president and four members of the UEFA Executive Committee, met Wednesday following the decision of the Turkish Football Federation to withdraw Fenerbahce from the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League due to the fact that the club has been involved in alleged match-fixing, a statement on UEFA's website read.

Turkish champions Fenerbahçe have been thrown out of the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League following their involvement in match-fixing allegations.

Developments over the last 24 hours have been contentious to say the least with the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) forced by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to withdraw Fenerbahçe's place in the competition or face further action in the event that they fail to decline their place.

UEFA inspector Cornu came to Istanbul and held meetings with public prosecutor Mehmet Berk and President of Turkish Football Federation Mehmet Ali Aydinlar on Monday.
After the talks Mehmet Ali Aydinlar, said Mr. Cornu wanted to see the documents and they wanted to see the operation that is going on.

Just last week,as I was talking to Scott Kessler from http://www.brotherlygame.com, we both agreed, it would be very good idea to talk to Freddy Adu's former coach Umit Kayihan and get his views about Freddy Adu.
So I made the first move, and asked all the questions to Mr.

The interview, and translation of it, was facilitated by Ahmet Turgut of Turkey Football and @TurkishSoccer.

Freddy Adu spent four long seasons dealing with an inability to make his way into a strong Benfica squad, moving around Europe on four consecutive loans. Then MLS came calling, with both Chivas USA and the Philadelphia Union showing major interest in Adu, before the Union ended up signing the 22-year-old.

Turkish football federation has delayed the decision on possible sanctions for Turkish clubs implicated in a match-fixing scandal until a prosecutor's indictment into the case.
Turkish Football Federation president Mehmet Ali Aydinlar said the confidentiality of the investigation and the federation's inability to access or disclose certain evidence for the delay in possible punishments.

THE NEW SEASON HAS BEEN POSTPONED BY TFF....
The Turkish Football Federation has announced the postponement of the start of the 2011/12 Super League campaign until September, due to an investigation into alleged match-fixing.
The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has announced that, owing to an investigation into alleged match-fixing, the start of the Super League and first division campaigns has been postponed until 9 and 10 September respectively.

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Besiktas team returning the Ziraat Turkish Cup to Turkish football federation(TFF) until its VICE-PRESIDENT and coach are cleared of charges in a match-fixing probe.
The decision came after a court charged Besiktas Vice- Presdient Serdar Adali and coach Tayfur Havutcu along club's security officer Ahmet Ates.

Istanbul Court on duty interrogated Sener, and released him by putting a ban on leaving the country.
Trabzonspor president Sadri Sener, who gave a statement at an Istanbul court within the scope of a match-fixing investigation, was released on Tuesday.
On July 3, Turkish police waged operations in several Turkish provinces and searched premises of several football clubs, detaining scores in connection with match-fixing charges.

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STORY OF THE DAY
Hurriyet in Turkey reports that another team has come in to the wide spread match fixing allegations - the head coach of Besiktas Tayfur Havutcu and others in the club were arrested today.

Police detained Besiktas coach and a club official on Tuesday in match-fixing investigation in addition to several other footballers and officials including chairmen of league champions Fenerbahce and runners-up Trabzonspor.
Besiktas coach Tayfur Havutcu and club official Serdal Adali have been taken into custody in Istanbul on charges of manipulation, one day after Trabzonspor Chairman Sadri Sener was held by the police.

Trabzonspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Trabzon. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several Trabzon-based clubs, Trabzonspor is nicknamed Bordo-Mavililer (Maroon-Blues). Starting its professional history in the 2.Lig, Trabzonspor earned promotion in 1974 and has been in the top-tier of Turkish, the Süper Lig, since.

Trabzonspor chairman arrested.......
Turkish police detained 22 people including the chairman of Trabzonspor Sadri Sener on Monday, in a widening match-fixing investigation which has already put 26 people in jail pending trial.
The detention of Trabzonspor's Sadri Sener in Istanbul came just hours after the chairman of Fenerbahce, Aziz Yildirim, was remanded in custody on charges of match-fixing and forming a criminal organisation.

By Gareth McKnight

For real football fans the game they love is life or death. We all want to follow our team to hell and back, but some places where the game is played literally could result in a life or death situation. With football hooliganism, terrorism and bitter hatred in mind, the following teams and games are to be avoided without travel cover and in the interest of your health.

Match fixing investigation threatens to rock Turkish football - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

60 people have been detained as part of a major investigation into alleged fixing within Turkish football. The chairman of current champions Fenerbahce is part of those under arrest by the authorities in the Eastern European country.