Cafer Çağatay

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Cafer Çağatay
Personnel
Surname Ali Cafer Çağatay
birthday January 1, 1899
place of birth Istanbul ,  Ottoman Empire
date of death April 24, 1991
Place of death Istanbul, Turkey
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
Fenerbahçe Istanbul
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1916 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 0 (0)
1916-1922 Altınordu İdman Yurdu 3 (0)
1922-1927 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1923-1927 Turkey 7 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ali Cafer Çağatay (born January 1, 1899 in Istanbul , † April 24, 1991 ibid) was a Turkish football player , official, pharmacist and musician. 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. So he counted in the game for General Harington Kupası in Fenerbahçes starting eleven in 1923 and was in the starting line-up in the first international match of the Turkish national team . During his active time as a football player, he was known by the nickname Çengel or Çengel Cafer (German: the hook or hook Cafer ), because as a man hit he stopped the approaching opponent symbolically like a hook or took the ball from them. With the Turkish national team, Çağatay took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Çağatay was the son of the musician Ali Rıfat Çağatay . He composed the first version of the Turkish national anthem , which was used until 1930 and was then replaced by today's background music. Çağatay comes from a family of artists; in addition to his father, his relatives include luminaries such as Nâzım Hikmet , Oktay Rifat and Samih Rifat .

Childhood and Academic Career

Çağatay was born in the Ottoman capital Istanbul in 1899 as the son of the musician Ali Rıfat Çağatay and his Sare Çağatay. Here he attended the renowned Saint-Joseph-Gymnasium and successfully graduated from it. He then began studying pharmacy at the University of Istanbul , which he continued and successfully completed parallel to his football career.

Player career

With Altınordu İdman Yurdu Çağatay became champions of the Friday league in 1917 and 1918
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 .

societies

During his school days at the Saint Joseph High School, Çağatay began playing club football in the youth team of Fenerbahçe Istanbul . After the Ottoman Empire entered the First World War on August 2, 1914, all football players from Fenerbahçes' first team and also from the other teams from Istanbul were drafted into military service. Little by little, younger and younger players moved up into the first men's team. Among these players was the young Çağatay. Çağatay played with Fenerbahçe in the İstanbul Cuma Ligi (German: Istanbul Friday League), the most prestigious league in the country at the time. This league was the only one that continued to play between 1915 and 1918. With his team, Çağatay was in the Cuma League season 1915/16 behind arch rivals Galatasaray Istanbul second in the league.

After he had been active for Fenerbahçe in the summer of 1916, he left this club. Instead, he hired the then very popular Altınordu İdman Yurdu club . This association was founded in 1909 in the Istanbul district of Kadıköy , the home district of Fenerbahçes and Çağatays, by former members of Galatasaray Istanbul. This club established itself in a very short time as a great rival of Fenerbahçes. With this team Çağatay took part in the Cuma Ligi and reached the championship with her in the seasons 1916/17 and 1917/18.

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 Cuma Ligi was no longer continued after the summer of 1918. The English groups organized their own clubs and a league. Due to this occupation, almost all local clubs, including Altınordu İY, stopped their activities for about two years. In 1920 Çağatay took part in the Makriköy-Gençlerbirliğ tournament with Altınordu . The next two years of Çağatay's career have not been recorded.

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 participated very successfully in these leagues and tournaments and won 60 of the 68 games against the occupying teams, drew four times 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, Çağatay returned to his old club Fenerbahçe in the summer of 1922 and took part with her in the re-introduced Friday League. In his first season after his return, the 1922/23 season, he won the championship of the Friday League with Fenerbahçe. 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, the winner of which was to be General Harington Kupası, who was named after him . 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 players he considered suitable 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 team and that they could compete against them in General Harington Kupası in 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 . Çağatay 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.

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. From then on, Çağatay and his team took part in this league and played for Fenerbahçe in this league until the summer of 1927, without being able to win the league's championship 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. In the summer Çağatay took part with the national team in the 1924 Summer Olympics and then ended his active football career.

National team

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

With the Turkish national team, Çağatay took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In total, Çağatay completed seven international matches.

Career after his footballing career

Since football was viewed as a hobby in Çağatay's time and football players had to earn their living elsewhere, he finished studying pharmacy at the University of Istanbul during his football career . He then opened a pharmacy in Istanbul and earned his living as a pharmacist. In 1928 he transferred his pharmacy with the passenger ship Gülcemal to the northern Turkish port city of Trabzon and worked there as a pharmacist until 1931. During this time he made friends with the notables of Trabzon and helped in the socio-cultural development of the region. Together with Avni Aker , for example, he endeavored for the development and expansion of sport and especially football. He also organized a bike race between Trabzon and Rize and took part in this race himself. He also made music in Trabzon and gave several concerts.

After the end of his football career, he returned to Istanbul and worked several times as an official for Fenerbahçe and the Turkish Football Association .

death

He died on April 24, 1991. On April 27, after the midday prayer, he was buried in the famous Karacaahmet cemetery in Istanbul's Bali Paşa Mosque .

successes

With Altınordu İdman Yurdu
With Fenerbahçe Istanbul
With the Turkish national team

Trivia

  • He scored the first goal of his team for Fenerbahçe in the first game of arch-rivals Fenerbahçe against Besiktas.
  • Until his death he was the oldest member of Fenerbahçe's club. So he received a plaque from Fenerbahçe for his 75-year membership in the club.
  • In the run-up to the test match between the Polish national team and the Turkish national team , the Polish band conductor discovered that the notes of the Turkish national anthem were not available. Then he asked the Turkish delegation whether they could help him. After the conductor was told that Çağatay was the son of Ali Rıfat Çağatay , the composer of the version of the national anthem at the time, the conductor asked Çağatay for help. The latter then played the national anthem on a piano so that the conductor could write down the notes and ultimately conduct them in his band.
  • According to his own statements, Çağatay was related to the Turkish poet and dramatist Nâzım Hikmet . He was also the cousin of the Turkish writer Oktay Rifat . Through these relationships he had contact with luminaries of modern Turkish literature such as Orhan Veli Kanık and Melih Cevdet .
  • During his time in Trabzon he made friends with the Turkish painter and poet Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu . He painted a portrait of Çağatay, which is owned by the family.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mujdatyetkiner.com: "Cafer Çağatay Fenerbahçeli efsane futbolcu" (accessed on September 30, 2013)
  2. ^ Dec. 11, 1983, Milliyet, p.12
  3. ↑ April 19, 1964, Milliyet, Sunday Supplement, p.12
  4. ↑ Jan. 4, 1972, Milliyet, p. 10
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i sj.k12.tr: "Ali Cafer ÇAĞATAY" (accessed on September 25, 2013)
  6. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi 1915/16 sezonu" ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 25, 2013)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.turkfutbolu.net
  7. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi 1916/17 sezonu" ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 25, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.turkfutbolu.net
  8. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi 1917/18 sezonu" ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 25, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.turkfutbolu.net
  9. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi tüm sezonu" ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 25, 2013)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.turkfutbolu.net
  10. ↑ mackolik.com: "Match report Galatasaray-Altınordu İY from October 1, 1920" (accessed on September 25, 2013)
  11. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi 1922/23 sezonu"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 25, 2013)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.turkfutbolu.net  
  12. ^ April 11, 1964, Milliyet, p. 8
  13. ↑ June 17, 1980, Milliyet, p.11
  14. ↑ ntvmsnbc.com: "General Harington Kupası" ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 26, 2013)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / arsiv.ntvmsnbc.com
  15. ↑ fenerbahce.org: "General Harington Kupası" (accessed on September 26, 2013)
  16. ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "İstanbul Futbol Ligi 1924/25 sezonu" ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 25, 2013)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.turkfutbolu.net
  17. ^ Dec. 26, 1978, Milliyet, p. 16
  18. ↑ June 30, 1952, Milliyet, p. 5
  19. ↑ Jun 6, 1955, Milliyet, p. 8
  20. ^ Oct. 13, 1955, Milliyet, p. 8
  21. ↑ May 16, 1957, Milliyet, p. 6
  22. ↑ April 26, 1991, Milliyet, p. 14
  23. ^ Dec. 14, 1974, Milliyet, p.12
  24. ^ Dec. 11, 1983, Milliyet, p.12
  25. ↑ Aug. 2, 1982, Milliyet, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Çağatay, Cafer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Çağatay, Ali Cafer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player and official
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1991
Place of death Istanbul , Turkey