Fikret Kırcan

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Fikret Kırcan
Personnel
Surname Ali Fikret Kırcan
birthday December 25, 1920
place of birth Istanbul ,  Ottoman Empire
date of death November 26, 2014
Place of death Istanbul,  Turkey
position Right winger , storm , midfield
Juniors
Years station
until 1938 Fenerbahçe Istanbul
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1935-1956 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 155 (50)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1948-1955 Turkey 8 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1959-1963 Fenerbahçe Istanbul (Manager)
1960 Fenerbahçe Istanbul (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Ali Fikret Kırcan (born December 25, 1920 in Istanbul ; † November 26, 2014 there ) was a Turkish football player and official. Because of his long work for Fenerbahçe Istanbul and as a home-grown man, he is very strongly associated with this club and is referred to by club and fan pages as one of the most important personalities in the club's history. He is one of five players who are named in the official Fenerbahçe march . At 22, he is the player who has been with the club for the longest time. In the 1950s and 1960s he was a functionary of the Turkish Football Association and in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s as a club official or manager of Fenerbahçes. Since Fikret Arıcan was another Fikret in the team squad when he was accepted into the professional Fenerbahçes team and he was older, Kırcan was henceforth referred to as Küçük Fikret (German: the little Fikret) and Arıcan as Büyük Fikret (German: the big one Fikret). He was remembered under this name even after his playing career.

Family and childhood

Kırcan was born as the son of Yusuf Ziya Bey, the then Mutasarrıf (a kind of governor in the Ottoman Empire ) of the Mardin province in the Istanbul district of Kadıköy , the home quarter of the traditional Turkish club Fenerbahçe Istanbul , as the fourth child of the family. Since Kırcan's father was close friends with the Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret and admired him, he named his son Tevfik Fikret in honor of Ali Fikret . When Kırcan was four years old, his father died of a heart attack in Midyat . After the unexpected death of their father, the family returned to Istanbul and settled in Feneryolu , a district of Istanbul's Kadıköy district and a neighboring district of Fenerbahçe . From then on, Kırcan's mother, Suphiye Kırcan, looked after the family and sent her son to a French school popularly known as Madamın Fransız Mektebi (English: Madame's French School ). During this time, Kırcan's sporting talent made itself felt. For example, he won the 100-meter run in a youth sports game organized on the occasion of the national children's festival in which the Istanbul primary schools took part . Since the French school disbanded in 1931, Kırcan attended a 6th İlkmektebe elementary school. During this time, he started playing football in the backyards of his Feneryolu neighborhood. Here he and his friends designed an unused plot of land as their makeshift football field . A little later, this group of friends founded an unannounced football team and named it Feneryolu SK .

Player career

society

Kırcan's career changed in 1933. At that time he played for both his club Feneryolu and for the school team of his high school Kadıköy Erkek Ortaokulu . During this time, he and his team received from their peers Necdet Erdem and Şeref, who both also lived in Feneryolu and visited the youth department of Fenerbahçe Istanbul , the request to play a friendly against the Fenerbahçes youth team. Since Fenerbahçe was very popular at the time, the Feneryolu players agreed. Feneryolu lost the game 2-0, but Kırcan was asked after the game started if he would like to come to Fenerbahçe. Although Kırcan immediately agreed, the move failed because of his mother's veto. After his mother was retuned, Kırcan began playing for the Fenerbahçe offspring at the age of 14.

After joining Fenerbahçe, Kırcan increased his performance and gradually came into conversation for the first team. After he won the Istanbul Youth Championship with the Fenerbahçes youth team in 1935, he was accepted into the club's first team. After several training sessions, the club official and former star Zeki Rıza Sporel approached Kırcan one Wednesday after training ended and informed him that he would play next Sunday in a friendly against the club Çankaya SK from Ankara . Fenerbahçe won the game clearly 5-0 and Kırcan convinced as a 16-year-old right winger . Sporel was also convinced of Kırcan's performance, but sent him back to the youth department on the grounds that he wanted to spare Kırcan a little longer.

In the following years, Kırcan played mainly for the youngsters, but was repeatedly involved in the games of the first team for sporadic missions. So he came on November 10, 1935 in the game of the İstanbul Ligi (dt. Istanbul League ) against Topkapı SK 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 Ligi (also called İstanbul Futbol Ligi ) was considered the most renowned. In the 1935/36 season of this league Kırcans team secured the championship, which Kırcan won his first title in men's football.

Except for this encounter and a friendly against the Hungarian representative MTK Budapest FC , Kırcan continued to play for the youth team. The decisive factor for this demotion was also the fact that a law was passed at the time that prohibited the club from using students in their A-team. So Kırcan played some time for the next generation and then in the reserve team of the club, which at that time as Fenerbahçe B added was designated. This team fought a head-to-head race for the Istanbul reserve team's championship with the B-team of arch rivals Galatasaray Istanbul . In the final of this B-League Kırcan met Galatasaray with his team. After regular time ended 0-0, the game went into overtime. Kırcan decided with a skilful individual action in which he first dribbled out an opponent and then outsmarted the goalkeeper who was too far in front of the goal with a lob and scored the goal to make it 1-0. As a result, the B-team Fenerbahçes secured the championship.

From 1936 Kırcan attended the renowned Haydarpaşa Gymnasium and could therefore no longer be used in the A team of his club. Instead, he continued to play for the Fenerbahçes B team and also for the school team of his high school. Since with Eşfak Aykaç , Sabri Kiraz , Halit Deringör and Müzdat Yetkiner other players Fenerbahçes or his arch-rivals Galatasarays visited this high school and played for the school team, he was able to achieve some successes with his school team. Benefiting from school holidays, he was accepted back into the senior team of Fenerbahçes in the fall of 1938 and played three league games. In these games he scored four goals and again attracted attention.

After Kırcan had graduated from high school in the fall of 1939, he finally returned to the Fenerbahçes senior team and from then on played exclusively for them. In the first season after his final return, the 1939/40 season, his team played for the championship with arch-rivals Beşiktaş Istanbul . After a hard-fought season, Kırcan's club were runner-up with one point less than Beşiktaş. In the same season, Kırcan's team also took part in the Milli Küme , a kind of championship tournament in which the teams from the three cities of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir participated. In this league, which was played after the Istanbul Football League from spring to summer, Fenerbahçe prevailed against all other teams with a large point gap and also won this tournament. Kırcan completed all competitive games for his club during this tournament and had a large share in this tournament victory with eight goals and several assists. In this tournament he became the second most successful tournament scorer of his club behind his teammate Melih Kotanca .

Subsequently, Kırcan was an integral part of the team until the mid-1950s. In the summer of 1952, the İstanbul Futbol Ligi was dissolved and transferred to a professional league system. From now on there are the İstanbul Profesyonel Ligi (German: Istanbul Professional League ) and the second highest division, the İstanbul İkinci Küme (German: Second Istanbul League ). Fenerbahçe played from then on in the Istanbul professional league. Kırcan was considering retiring from his career at the time. But since the club management wanted to carry out a revision in the squad with players from their own reserve and junior teams and needed some experienced management players, they kept Kırcan and his long-term colleagues Müzdat Yetkiner and Mehmet Ali Has in the squad. This team, known as "Küçük Şeytanlar" (dt. Little Devils ), finished the first season of the Istanbul professional league in third place and surprisingly reached the championship in the 1952/53 season. After Kırcan had played through these two seasons and the 1953/54 season as a regular player, he stayed the two seasons 1954/55 and 1955/56 as a supplementary player in the squad and did not come out through sporadic missions.

In the summer of 1956, he ended his career at an unusually high age of 36. He ended his career with a farewell game played on October 7, 1956 against Dynamo Moscow .

National team

Kırcan began his national team career in 1948 with a use in the friendly against the Greek national team . In this game, which his team won 3-1, Kırcan also scored his first goal in the dress of the Turkish A-selection with his goal to make it 1-0. By the summer of 1955, he completed seven more games and scored one more goal. Since a large part of his active football playing career had fallen into the time of the Second World War , no international matches were played for eleven years and Kırcan could not begin his national team career until 1948.

With the Turkish selection, Kırcan took part in the 1948 Summer Olympics. In addition, he took part in the Mediterranean Cup with the national team in the summer of 1949 and is second behind the B selection of the Italian national team .

Functionary career

In July 1958, Kırcan was elected to the cabinet of the new club president Agah Erozan at Fenerbahçe Istanbul and was henceforth the manager of the sports department. Although Erozan was voted out after a year, Kırcan continued his work as a manager until 1963 under Erozan's successors.

From 1959 he also worked as a functionary and manager for the Turkish Football Association , parallel to his managerial work at Fenerbahçe .

In March 1967 he was elected to the cabinet of the new club president Faruk Ilgaz at Fenerbahçe this time .

death

Kırcan died on November 26, 2014 in his native Istanbul . He was buried in Istanbul's Karacaahmet Cemetery in November 2014 after the midday prayer in the Karacaahmet Şakirin Mosque . In addition to various personalities of Fenerbahçes, members of the arch-rivals Galatasaray Istanbul and Beşiktaş Istanbul also attended his funeral .

successes

With Fenerbahçe Istanbul
With the Turkish national team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mujdatyetkiner.com: "Fikret Kırcan - Fenerbahçeli efsane futbolcu" (accessed on November 25, 2014)
  2. ↑ fenerbahce.org: "Fenerbahçe Songs" (accessed November 25, 2014)
  3. ↑ July 9, 1958, Milliyet, Sayfa 6: "Agah Erozan F.Bahçe Reisi"
  4. ↑ February 8, 1959, Milliyet, p. 5: "Kırcan: Hala Şampiyonluk rüyasındayız"
  5. ↑ September 2, 1959, Milliyet, p. 6: "Fikret Kırcan Federasyonda"
  6. ↑ March 17, 1969, Milliyet, p. 9: "Fenerbahçe'yi kimler yönetecek"
  7. ↑ milliyet.com.tr: "Fikret Kırcan hayatını kaybetti" (accessed on November 28, 2014)
  8. ↑ cumhuriyet.com.tr: "Fenerbahçe efsanesi Fikret Kırcan son yolculuğuna uğurlandı" (accessed on November 28, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Kırcan, Fikret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kırcan, Ali Fikret (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player and official
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2014
Place of death Istanbul