Ali Gençay

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Ali Gençay
Personnel
birthday February 2, 1905
place of birth Istanbul ,  Ottoman Empire
date of death March 28, 1957
Place of death Istanbul,  Turkey
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
until 1922 Galatasaray Istanbul
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1922-1925 Galatasaray Istanbul
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1924-1925 Turkey 9 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ali Gençay (born February 2, 1905 in Istanbul , † March 28, 1957 ibid) was a Turkish football player . Through his work for Galatasaray Istanbul and as its own he is associated with this association. He briefly belonged to the Galatasaray team that dominated Turkish football in the 1920s and won five of eight possible Istanbul championships .

Player career

society

Gençay's career is incompletely documented. He attended the renowned Galatasaray High School and played in the youth department of the traditional Galatasaray Istanbul club - the club that was founded by students from the Galatasaray High School. Word of his footballing talent spread quickly in the Galatasaray community, so that in 1922, at the age of seventeen, he was accepted into the squad of the Galatasaray Istanbul football team. At the time of his entry into the professional squad, Istanbul was occupied due to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War (see Occupation of Istanbul ). After the Turkish teams no longer played a large part of this line-up, the İstanbul Cuma Ligi (German Friday League), the most prestigious league in the country at the time, was resumed in the 1920/21 season . Gençay came in the 1922/23 season of this league in the game of April 16, 1926 against Vefa Istanbul to use and made his professional debut.

With the end of the occupation of Istanbul and the establishment of modern Turkey, football was also reformed in Istanbul. After several Istanbul leagues such as the Friday League and Sunday League existed in parallel in some seasons and competed with one another, the Istanbul Futbol Ligi (German Istanbul Football League ) was introduced in the summer . This league replaced or united all previous Istanbul leagues and ensured that all known Istanbul clubs played in the same league. Since there was no national professional league in Turkey at that time, regional leagues existed instead in metropolitan areas such as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir , of which İstanbul Ligi (also called İstanbul Futbol Ligi) was considered the most renowned. Peykoğlu took part in this league with his team. For his club he played until the summer of 1925. During this time he was able to win the championship of this league with his club once. His career after 1925 is unknown.

National team

Gençay began his national team career in 1924 with a commitment for the Turkish national team in a friendly against the Czechoslovak national team . By May 1925, he completed eight more games.

With the Turkish selection, Gençay took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

successes

With Galatasaray Istanbul
With the Turkish national team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Cumhuriyet", March 29, 1957, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Gençay, Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1957
Place of death Istanbul , Turkey