Ahmet Özacar

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Ahmet Özacar
Ahmet Özacar (1966) at Beşiktaş JKjpg
Ahmet Özacar (1966)
Personnel
Surname Ahmet Refik Özacar
birthday May 8, 1937
place of birth Lüleburgaz ,  Turkey
date of death October 23, 2005
Place of death Istanbul , Turkey
size 174 cm
position Sturm , midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1955-1971 Beşiktaş Istanbul 338 (109)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959-1961 Turkey B 2 00(0)
1962–1962 Turkey 1 00(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ahmet Refik Özacar (born May 8, 1937 in Lüleburgaz , † October 23, 2005 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish football player . Through his many years of work for Beşiktaş Istanbul , he is very strongly associated with this club. Fan and club members see him as one of the most legendary players in club history. At 18 he was one of the players who had been active for the club for the longest time. He was an important part of the Beşiktaş team that won the Turkish championship twice in a row for the first time . Since when he moved to Galatasaray in the summer of 1955, Ahmet Berman, there was another Ahmet in the team squad and he was older, Özacar was henceforth referred to as the Küçük Ahmet (German: The little Ahmet) and Berman as the Büyük Ahmet (German: The great Ahmet). Every year on the anniversary of the death of Beşiktaş's club officials and supporters, a memorial service is held at his grave.

Career

society

Özacar started playing soccer in his hometown Lüleburgaz and moved to the youth department of Beşiktaş Istanbul in 1955 at the age of 18 . As early as the 1955/56 season he was included in the squad of the Beşiktaş 'football team. He came this season in the game of İstanbul Profesyonel Ligi (German Istanbul professional league ) on December 4, 1955 against Fenerbahçe Istanbul to use and made his professional debut. Since there was no international professional league in Turkey at that time, regional leagues existed instead in metropolitan areas such as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir , of which İstanbul Profesyonel Ligi was considered the most renowned. In the further course of the season he completed three more league games and scored one goal. In his second season, the 1956/57 season, he won a regular place and was the second most successful goalscorer of his club with twelve competitive goals behind his teammate Nazmi Bilge . With his team he remained in the championship with no title chances, but he won the Federation Cup with her . In the next two seasons of the Istanbul professional league Özacar remained with his team without a title, but defended his title in the Federation Cup in the 1957/58 season.

In the spring of 1959, the Millî Lig (today's Süper Lig), Turkey's first nationwide national league, was founded. This league replaced the regional leagues in the larger metropolitan areas, such as B. the Istanbul professional league, as the highest and only Turkish league. The first eight teams from the Istanbul professional league were accepted into this league. Özacar took part with Beşiktaş in this new league and ended the first season in second place in the preliminary round and missed the opportunity to become first Turkish champions. For the second season of the Millî Lig, the 1959/60 season , Özacar's team took the lead in the table and ended the season as 2nd Turkish champions . So Özacar was one of the squad that won the first Turkish championship for Beşiktaş. Özacar formed the Beşiktaş offensive with his teammates Şenol Birol , Arif Özataç , Nazmi Bilge and Birol Pekel and contributed to this title with nine league goals and numerous assists. In the next season, Beşiktaş missed the title defense and finished the league as third in the table, Özacar set his previous career record with his 15 league goals and was thus one of the most successful leagues. After Özacar and his club had finished the 1962/63 season again as third in the table, he played again for the Turkish championship in the 1963/64 season . After a head-to-head race with Galatasaray Istanbul , this was awarded to arch-rivals Galatasaray on the last day of the match. Also in the season 1963/64 he played again with his club until the last matchday for the championship and awarded it to Fenerbahçe Istanbul on the last matchday . Before the 1964/65 season , he and his club won the pre-season cup of the Turkish Sports Journalists' Association . In the championship his team had no great chances, but finished in the then existing two-point system with six points behind the champion Fenerbahçe as runner-up. As a result, he was also a member of the first team in Turkish football, which became Turkish runners-up three times in a row. In the 1965/66 started Özacar started defending the title in the TSYD Istanbul Cup. The league quickly led his club and ended the season with a six-point lead over second-placed Galatasaray Istanbul as Turkish champions. Özacar formed one of the most successful offensive teams in the league with his strike partners Ahmet Şahin , Yusuf Tunaoğlu , Sanlı Sarıalioğlu and Faruk Karadoğan . In addition, Özacar reached the final of the Turkish Cup with his club , losing to Galatasaray 0: 1 and thus missed the first double victory in the club's history. The following season he and his team also managed to defend their title in the championship, the first in the club's history. His team also won the President's Cup this season , an earlier version of the later Turkish Supercup . The next three seasons Özacarss team missed the Turkish championship and won the Spor Toto Cup twice. After the rather disappointing three seasons, Özacar decided to end his career in the summer of 1970. So he ended his career with a farewell game played on October 29, 1970 against a national team.

After his club had to face bottlenecks in the squad in the 1970/71 season , Özacar was brought out of his retirement and completed four more league games by the end of the season.

National team

Özacar was nominated in December 1962 by national coach Ljubiša Spajić , at that time also Özacar's coach at Beşiktaş, as part of a friendly against the Danish national team for the first time for the squad of the Turkish national team and made his international debut in this encounter. Then it was no longer considered.

Before that, he played two games for the Turkish B national team between 1959 and 1961, the then second selection of the Turkish national team.

death

Özacar, who had suffered from an incurable disease for a long time, died on October 23, 2005 of the consequences of this disease in Istanbul . He was buried two days later after the midday prayer in Istanbul's Şişli Mosque in Kozlu Cemetery.

Trivia

  • With his goal to 1: 0 home win of the lot of the European Champions 'Cup from September 28, 1960 against SK Rapid Wien scored the first goal Özacar Beşiktaş' in European cup competitions.

successes

Beşiktaş Istanbul

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August 9, 1962, Milliyet, p. 8: "Milli Ligin 18 takımı"
  2. ↑ bjk.com.tr: "Beşiktaş Efsaneleri: Ahmet Özacar" (accessed on March 7, 2015)
  3. ↑ a b ajansspor.com: "Beşiktaşlı Ahmet Özacar anılacak" ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 9, 2015)
  4. ↑ zaman.com.tr: "Beşiktaşlı eski futbolcu Ahmet Özacar vefat etti" ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 9, 2015)
  5. ↑ karakartal.com: "Ahmet Özacar'a son görev ..." (accessed on March 9, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Özacar, Ahmet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Özacar, Ahmet Refik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüleburgaz , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2005
Place of death Istanbul , Turkey