İbrahim Yazıcı

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İbrahim Yazıcı (born January 28, 1948 in Bursa , † May 7, 2013 in Bursa) was a Turkish businessman, politician and football official. He was the president of the Turkish sports club Bursaspor since October 16, 2007 and carried out this activity until his death. During this tenure, the club achieved the greatest success in the club's history as Turkish football champions in the 2009/10 season .

Live and act

Yazıcı obtained the general university entrance qualification in his home town of Bursa and then worked in the tourism industry. He later founded his own tourism company, Yazıcı Turizm Şirketler Grubu, and then owned several hotels.

In the 1990s, Yazıcı began to be politically active. He was elected as a member of parliament in his home province of Bursa in Turkey's 20th government . He participated in the elections as a member of the Anavatan Partisi . For the following term of office he was elected as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the province of Muğla . This time he was elected as a member of the Doğru Yol Partisi .

Football official

Yazıcı was elected president of the Turkish sports club Bursaspor for the first time in 1988 and remained in that office for four years. During this time, the football club always occupied the top third of the table. In addition, you could prevail against Fenerbahçe Istanbul in 1992 and won the Prime Minister's Cup .

In October 2007, Yazıcı became president of Bursaspor for the second time . In his second term of office, the club achieved the greatest successes in the club's history. So you ended the 2009/10 season as Turkish football champions . Up to this season, the three big Istanbul clubs Beşiktaş Istanbul , Fenerbahçe Istanbul and Galatasaray Istanbul decided the championship of the Süper Lig among themselves. Only in the 1970s and 1980s did Trabzonspor become the first Anatolian club to win the Turkish football championship and to break this ban. After Trabzonspor, Bursaspor succeeded as another Anatolian club to outdo the big three Istanbul teams and become Turkish football champions. Through this championship, Bursaspor took part in the UEFA Champions League of the 2010/11 season , becoming the fourth Turkish club to participate in this league. The 2010/11 season ended as third in the table of the Süper Lig and achieved the second-best placement in the club's history after the Turkish championship. In the 2011/12 season they finished the league in 8th place in the table, but reached the final in the Turkish Football Cup of the 2011/12 season . Here they lost 4-0 to Fenerbahçe Istanbul and thus missed the second cup win in the club's history.

death

Since 2012, Yazıcı has suffered several heart attacks . Most recently, he suffered a heart attack after the first division game Orduspor - Bursaspor on May 4, 2013 and was then in a coma for three days . He died on May 7, 2013 from the consequences of this last heart attack.

Private

Yazıcı was married until his death with two children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tbmm.gov.tr: "List of the members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey" (accessed on May 7, 2013)
  2. ↑ haberciniz.biz: "Bursaspor'u Tarihe Geçiren Başkan ..." (accessed on May 7, 2013)
  3. ↑ trtspor.com.tr: "Türk Futbolunun başı sağolsun" ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 7, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Yazıcı, İbrahim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish businessman, politician and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bursa , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2013
Place of death Bursa , Turkey