Bedri Gursoy

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Bedri Gursoy
Bedri Gürsoy.jpg
Personnel
birthday January 1, 1902
place of birth Istanbul ,  Ottoman Empire
date of death 4th February 1994
Place of death Istanbul,  Turkey
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
until 1921 Fenerbahçe Istanbul
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1921-1929 Fenerbahçe Istanbul
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1923-1928 Turkey 12 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

Bedri Gürsoy (born January 1, 1902 in Istanbul ; † February 4, 1994 there ) was a Turkish football player and official. Due to his long activity for Fenerbahçe Istanbul , he is very strongly associated with this club. He has been involved in several important successes in Fenerbahçe in particular and Turkish football in general. In 1923 he was part of the Fenerbahçes starting eleven in General Harington Kupası and was in the starting line-up in the first international match for the Turkish national team . Gürsoy took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics with the Turkish national team. After his football career, he worked several times for Fenerbahçe as a club official.

Career

Fenerbahçe (1922-23), from left to right: Back row - Bedri Gürsoy , Zeki Rıza Sporel , Ömer Tanyeri , İsmet Uluğ , Sabih Arca , Cafer Çağatay , Fahir Yeniçay , Kadri Göktulga , Fahir Yeniçay
Front row - Ragıp Mağden , Sekip Kulaksizoglu , Alaattin Baydar .
On the occasion of a friendly match against a Viennese selection team, the Istanbul selection team composed of the players from Fenerbahçe Istanbul and Galatasaray Istanbul . Back row on the far left: Bedri Gürsoy.

societies

Gürsoy started club football in the youth team of Fenerbahçe Istanbul . At this time Gürsoy experienced the entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War in August 1914 and was not drafted because of his young country. Since the Ottoman Empire was one of the losing powers, its capital Istanbul was occupied by military troops of the British , French and Italians at the end of the First World War . As a result of the war situation and the subsequent occupation of Istanbul , the İstanbul Cuma Ligi (German: Istanbul Friday League), the most prestigious league in the country at the time, continued after the summer of 1920. The English groups organized their own clubs and a league.

During the occupation, the English and French occupation forces founded their own clubs and also organized several league systems. Except for Fenerbahçe, all other Turkish clubs refused to play in a league with the occupying teams. Fenerbahçe took part in addition to his work in the Friday league in the very successful in these leagues and tournaments and won 60 of the 68 games against the occupying teams, played four draws and lost only four games. As a result, the popularity of Fenerbahçe among the local population increased significantly and the games became a reflection of the tense situation within the city. In this environment Gürsoy was included in the first team Fenerbahçe 'in the summer of 1921 and took part in the Friday League with her. In his first season he was with Fenerbahçe behind the arch-rivals Galatasaray Istanbul runner-up in this league. The second season, the season 1922/23, he won the championship of the Friday League with his team. This won championship, in which Fenerbahçe played 12 games, reached the team undefeated and without a single goal.

Before the end of the occupation of Istanbul, the commander of all occupying forces of Istanbul, General Charles Harington Harington , organized a cup game named after him, General Harington Kupası . For this game, which Harington attached great importance to winning, he personally organized a selection tournament within the occupying teams in which the Irish Guards, Grenadiers Guards and Coldstream Guards participated. After the tournament games, he selected the most suitable players from these three teams. In addition, he had four professional football players from the British troops stationed in Egypt and Gibraltar brought to Istanbul especially for this game . From all these football players he had a team set up, which he named Coldstream Guards . He then had an advertisement printed in a daily newspaper that the Coldstream Guards were challenging the Turkish teams and that they could compete against them in the General Harrington Cup with any combination. Fenerbahçe responded to this newspaper ad by saying that they would only accept the challenge with their own squad. Both teams competed against each other on June 29, 1923 in the Taksim Stadium . Gürsoy was one of his team's starting XI in this historic game. Fenerbahçe won the prestigious game 2-1 and caused great joy among the local population.

Immediately after this game, Gürsoy said the words often quoted in connection with General Harington Kupası and the occupation of Istanbul: We are the only country that could win a war with both the gun ball and the football (Turkish: Hem havan topuyla, hem futbol topuyla savaş kazanan tek ülke biziz ).

With the end of the occupation of Istanbul and the founding 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 leagues and ensured that all known Istanbul clubs played in the same league. Gürsoyy took part with his team in this league from then on and played for Fenerbahçe in this league until the summer of 1929, without being able to win the championship of this league once. Only in the season 1924/15 he did not take part with his club in the competition of this league. In the season 1926/27 he was in the squad, but remained without a game for Fenerbahçe.

National team

Gürsoy came in the first game of the Turkish national team to his first international game. In the game against the Romanian national team , he was in the starting line-up and played for the full season.

With the Turkish selection Gürsoy took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He played a total of twelve international matches and scored one goal.

death

Gürsoy died on February 4, 1994. He was buried the next day after the midday prayer in Istanbul's Moda Mosque in Karacaahmet Cemetery. In addition to the Fenerbahçe club management, many celebrities and politicians were present at his funeral.

successes

With Fenerbahçe Istanbul
With the Turkish national team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mujdatyetkiner.com: "Bedri Gürsoy Fenerbahçeli efsane futbolcu" (accessed on April 25, 2014)
  2. ^ Dec. 11, 1983, Milliyet, p.12
  3. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi tüm sezonu" ( Memento from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 25, 2013)
  4. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi 1921/22 sezonu" ( Memento from March 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 25, 2014)
  5. ↑ http://www.turkfutbolu.net/tumligler/cuma23-23.html (link not available)
  6. ^ April 11, 1964, Milliyet, p. 8
  7. ↑ June 17, 1980, Milliyet, p.11
  8. ↑ ntvmsnbc.com: "General Harington Kupası" ( Memento of August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 26, 2013)
  9. ↑ fenerbahce.org: "General Harington Kupası" (accessed on September 26, 2013)
  10. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "" Büyük Taarruz "emri futbol maçında verildi" ( Memento from March 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 25, 2014)
  11. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "İstanbul Futbol Ligi 1924/25 sezonu" ( Memento of October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 25, 2013)
  12. ^ Dec. 26, 1978, Milliyet, p. 16
  13. ↑ February 5, 1994, Milliyet, p. 34: "Gürsoy vefat etti."
  14. ↑ February 6, 1994, Milliyet, p. 38: "Gürsoy toprağa verildi."
personal data
SURNAME Gursoy, Bedri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1994
Place of death Istanbul , Turkey