Hüseyin Tok (soccer player, 1953)

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Huseyin Tok
Personnel
Surname Huseyin Nuri Tok
birthday March 18, 1953
place of birth Trabzon ,  Turkey
position Sturm , midfield
Juniors
Years station
1967-1969 Çarşıbaşıspor
1969-1971 Trabzon Yolspor
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1969-1971 Trabzon Yolspor
1971-1973 Erzurumspor
1973-1980 Trabzonspor 110 (32)
1980-1981 Giresunspor
1981-1984 Kartalspor
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1975 Turkey U-21 5 0(2)
1975-1977 Turkey 4 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1983-1984 Kartalspor (player-coach)
1991-1993 Kartalspor (assistant coach)
1993-1994 Kartalspor
1994-1997 Trabzonspor (assistant coach)
2000 Darıca Gençlerbirliği
1 Only league games are given.

Hüseyin Nuri Tok (born March 18, 1953 in Trabzon ) is a former Turkish football player and coach. Through his many years of work for Trabzonspor , he is very strongly associated with this club and is perceived by fans and clubs as one of the most important players in club history. He was involved in four of the club's six championships. His younger brother İbrahim Tok was also active as a professional football player and played for Fenerbahçe Istanbul , among others .

Player career

society

Tok was born in 1959 in the north-east Turkish port city of Trabzon and grew up in the small district town of Çarşıbaşı in the Trabzon province . In 1967 he started here in the youth of Çarşıbaşıspor with club football. At the age of sixteen he moved to the amateur club Trabzon Yolspor . After two years for this club, he was hired in the summer of 1971 for third division Erzurumspor . At this club he quickly established himself as a regular player. The season 1972/73 ended his team as champions of the Türkiye 3rd Futbol Ligi and thus reached the first promotion to the Türkiye 2nd Futbol Ligi . As an eighteen-year-old Tok was one of the main players in this success, which is why several second and first division clubs tried to sign Toks.

The newly formed club in his home province of Trabzon, Trabzonspor , playing in the 2nd league , made an offer to him. Since Tok preferred to return to his home country, he accepted Trabzonspor's offer. In his very first season for this club, the team reached the championship of the 2nd Lig and thus promotion to the 1st Lig . The first season in the top Turkish league was very successful for Tok. On the one hand, he completed 23 league games, in which he was the most successful goalscorer of his team with seven league goals, and on the other hand, he made the leap into the Turkish national team . His team occupies 9th place in the table and was not noticed as a team. In the second first division season, the 1975/76 season , Tok's team surprisingly reached the championship. Up to this season, the three big Istanbul clubs Beşiktaş , Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray decided the Turkish football championship among themselves. With Eskişehirspor , another Anatolian club narrowly missed the championship three times, but the ban remained. It was only solved with Trabzonspor's championship. In addition to the championship, the team also reached the final of the Turkish Football Cup and just lost to Galatasaray here. After this championship, Trabzonspor also dominated the league the next season and, in addition to the championship with winning the Turkish Football Cup and the Supercup, also collected all the other trophies in Turkish football at that time. Tok played almost all of his team's games during this time and only dropped out due to injury or because he was suspended. Especially in the first championship, he played a major role as the most successful goalscorer of his team with 13 league goals. In the second championship season he was also one of the most important performers of his club. Tok's team also stood out on the European football stage. In the 1976/77 European Cup , the team met the reigning English champions and later Champions League winners Liverpool FC in the second round . Liverpool were considered one of the best teams in European football at the time and were the big favorites for these encounters. Trabzonspor surprisingly won their first game in Trabzon 1-0. The second leg was lost 3-0. Tok was used in both matches. It was not until the 1977/78 season that the championship was awarded to Fenerbahçe with a point difference, but the two other trophies were won. During this season, Tok lost his regular place and played only five league games over the entire season. The only ray of hope was winning the Turkish Football Cup again. Trabzonspor got into big financial difficulties at this time and saw the solution in selling some stars. In addition, they wanted to create a revision in the team. Players like Kadir Özcan and Ali Kemal Denizci were put on the sales list. While Denizci was sold to the then great rival Fenerbahçe Istanbul, Özcan went to local rival Zonguldakspor . Tok remained in the squad meanwhile. In addition, the club strengthened with such players as Tuncay Soyak . This revision had an impact. At the end of the season, his team won the Turkish Championship and the President's Cup , an earlier version of the later Turkish Supercup. Tok found his way back to old strength this season and contributed five goals in 22 games to this success. For the following season, another winger was committed with İskender Günen . Tok lost his regular place to Günen partly due to injury and only played two league games over the entire season. His team defended the Turkish championship.

In the summer of 1960 Tok left Trabzonspor and moved to the second division Giresunspor . For this club he only played one season and then went to the Istanbul amateur club Kartalspor . After playing for this club for a year, he was in charge of the club as a player-coach in the 1983/84 season . He then ended his playing career.

National team

During his time at Trabzonspor, Tok was appointed to the squad of the Turkish U-21 national team and made his U-21 international debut against the Romanian U-21 national team on March 18, 1975 . In the same year he played four more times for his country's U-21 team, scoring two goals.

In 1975 he moved into the focus of the coaching staff of the Turkish national team . He was part of a the scheduled April 30, 1975 EM 1976 - qualifying match against Switzerland by the then national coach Coşkun Özarı brought for the first time in the squad of the Turkish national team. In this game, Tok only sat on the bench. In the same year he received four other nominations for the senior national team. After he stopped again without bet in the first three nominations, he was in the EM-1976 - qualifying match against the national team of the USSR his international debut. By the early summer of 1977, Tok was on the selection line four more times.

His last international match was against Austria on April 17, 1977 . In total, he played four times for the Turkish national team.

Coaching career

In his last season as a player, he worked as a player- coach at Kartalspor . After he had looked after Kartalspor from 1991 to 1993 as assistant coach, he took over this club as head coach for the 1993/94 season. He then worked for two and a half years at Trabzonspor as an assistant coach and assisted his former team captain Şenol Güneş . In the summer of 2000 he took over Darıca Gençlerbirliği and worked here for two months.

successes

With Erzurumspor
With Trabzonspor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c tsfutbol.com: "Hüseyin Nuri TOK" (accessed on November 24, 2013)
  2. ↑ November 4, 1978, Milliyet, p. 16
  3. ^ Match report Trabzonspor-Liverpool FC on October 20, 1976 in mackolik.com.
  4. ↑ Match report FC Liverpool-Trabzonspor on November 3, 1976 in mackolik.com.
  5. ↑ November 7, 1978, Milliyet, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Tok, Huseyin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tok, Hüseyin Nuri (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Trabzon , Turkey