Çetin Zeybek

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Çetin Zeybek
Personnel
birthday September 12, 1932
place of birth Bandırma ,  Turkey
date of death November 10, 1990
Place of death Bandırma ,  Turkey
size 183 cm
position Midfield , defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1950-1958 Kasımpaşa Istanbul
1958-1960 Ferikoy SK
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954 Turkey 5 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Çetin Zeybek (born September 12, 1932 in Bandırma , Turkey ; † November 10, 1990 ibid) was a Turkish football player and official . Due to his many years of work for Kasımpaşa Istanbul , he is associated with this association. After his active football career, he returned to his hometown Bandırma and helped develop football. Together with other personalities in the city, he founded the Bandırmaspor association . During the Football World Cup in 1954 , he was part of the Turkish squad and played two games. He died on November 10, 1990 in his hometown and was buried there.

Player career

society

Zeybek was born in 1932 in the small town of Bandırma in western Turkey. From the summer of 1950 he started playing for Kasımpaşa Istanbul in the İstanbul Profesyonel Ligi (in English: Istanbul Professional League ), the most famous league in Turkey at the time, and quickly won a regular place here. Due to his good performance for Kasımpaşa, he was elected to the squad of the Turkish national team by the then national player Puppo Sandro and qualified with this for the 1954 World Cup . During this tournament he injured his knee in the encounter against the German selection . This injury turned into a dramatic event in his career from which he could never recover. He required several surgeries and still failed to play football regularly. The injury also caused a dissatisfaction between Kasımpaşa and the Turkish Football Association . Both parties refused to pay the rehabilitation costs for the injury.

Zeybek switched to city rival Feriköy SK in the summer of 1958 . With this team he rose in the summer of 1959 in the newly founded and nationwide Millî Lig , today's Süper Lig . After a season in the Süper Lig, he ended his active football career.

National team

Zeybek was nominated for the first time for the Turkish selection as part of the qualification for the 1954 World Cup . Turkey had to play two relegation games against Spain, the winner of which would qualify for the World Cup. Zeybek made his national team debut on March 14, 1954 in the 1-0 first leg win in Istanbul . In the second leg, Turkey fought a 2-2 draw and qualified for a World Cup for the first time in the association's history .

As a result, Zeybek was appointed to the Turkish squad for the 1954 World Cup . During the World Cup, he came to two missions and finished with his team at the end of the group stage, level on points with the German selection, second place in the table. Although they had the better goal difference, according to the rules of the time, the second group was played out by a playoff between these two teams. Germany decided this encounter 7-2 for themselves. Zeybek sustained a bad injury during this encounter, which set him back again and again in the rest of his career and ensured that Zeybek could no longer match the performances he showed up to the 1954 World Cup.

Functionary career

After his active career as a player, he returned to his hometown Bandırma and helped to establish football in the city. Among other things, he was a founding member of the Bandırmaspor association and was a member of the board of this association for many years.

successes

As a player

  • Feriköy SK:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bandirmahaber.net: BANDIRMA-MİLLİ FUTBOLCU ÇETİN ZEYBEK MEZARININ BAŞINDA ANILDI ( Memento of November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 5, 2012)
  2. ↑ a b Milliyet of September 11, 1953, p. 5.
  3. ^ Turkey - Spain March 14, 1954 in tff.org.
  4. ↑ Germany - Turkey June 23, 1954 in tff.org.
personal data
SURNAME Zeybek, Çetin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bandırma , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1990
Place of death Bandırma , Turkey