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  • ANKARA: Neither EU Nor Zana can dissuade Turks from Tonight's Match

    Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
    Dec 12 2004

    Neither EU Nor Zana can dissuade Turks from Tonight's Match

    Turkish publics' EU and Zana agenda will be disturbed tonight by
    Galatasaray-Fenerbahce match. Once for this week 17th December,
    Armenia and EU will not be talked but rather more `serious' issues
    like Hasan Sas, Hakan Sukur, Rustu, Tuncay Sanli will invade our
    night.

    Both teams are well prepared and close their doors to public until
    the match. As usual Turkish Media printed pages of news coverages,
    pictures of Hasan Sas and Tuncay Sanli and as usual asked for fair
    play.

    Galatasaray with its manager Georgia Hagi `the Maradona of Carpats'
    is missing the old days, when they won the UEFA cup in 2000. After
    2000, the team submerged into financial tides. Fatih Terim, the
    Galatasaray's local chap, tried anything but luck wasn't on his side.
    This year Galatasaray started the season with the veteran player
    Georgia Hagi as the coach of the team. Hagi gathered up his old mates
    and achieved better than former Real Madrid's coach Del Bosque, in
    the Turkish League.

    Fenerbahce on the other side is an interesting team, with a coach
    from Germany, players from Brazil and a group of media commentators
    suffering from andropose. Although the football Fenerbahce performed
    in the previous weeks was nice, (thanks to Brazilians Alex and Nobre)
    it couldn't escape from criticisms. Until this week's Manchester
    United win, some commentators were asking Manager of Fenerbahce
    Christopher Daum to be sent, accusing Alex of not playing whole
    heartly, and claiming there are divisions inside the team.

    Turks can escape from the EU agenda but they can not hide. Executives
    of both teams asked supporters to chill down and avoid any
    unnecessary violence, claiming that any unnecessary event may damage
    Turkey's reputation before 17 December.

    JTW
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