Kadri Aytaç

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Kadri Aytaç
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Kadri Aytaç (1958)
Personnel
birthday August 6, 1931
place of birth IstanbulTurkey
date of death March 28, 2003
Place of death IstanbulTurkey
size 175 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Ankara Demirspor
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1949-1953 Beyoğluspor
1953-1958 Galatasaray Istanbul 87 (45)
1958-1960 Karagümrük SK 64 (25)
1960–1962 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 53 (10)
1962-1966 Galatasaray Istanbul 93 (19)
1966-1969 Mersin İdman Yurdu 83 (12)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Turkish army 38 0(?)
1953-1962 Turkey 26 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1968-1969 Mersin İdman Yurdu (Assistant Trainer)
1969 Mersin İdman Yurdu (Manager)
1969-1971 Denizlispor
1971-1972 Boluspor
1972-1973 Tirespor
1973-1975 Orduspor
1975-1977 Mersin İdman Yurdu
1977-1988 Rizespor
1978 Samsunspor (Sports Director)
1978-1979 MKE Ankaragücü
1979-1980 Goztepe Izmir
1980-1981 Aydınspor
1981-1982 Kayserispor
1982-1983 Gençlerbirliği Ankara
1983 İskenderunspor
1983-1985 Karşıyaka SK
1985-1986 Konyaspor
1986-1987 Orduspor
1988 Gençlerbirliği Ankara
1990 Karşıyaka SK
1990-1991 Mersin İdman Yurdu
1992 Zeytinburnuspor
1992-1993 Mersin İdman Yurdu
1994-1995 İstanbulspor
1996 Kartalspor
1997 Nişantaşıspor
1 Only league games are given.

Kadri Aytaç (born August 6, 1931 in Istanbul , † March 28, 2003 ibid) was a Turkish football player , coach and official. Although he was also active for arch rivals Fenerbahçe Istanbul , he is mainly associated with this club through his work for Galatasaray Istanbul . On fan and club pages he is described as one of the most important players in club history. He was an important part of the team that had a strong influence on Turkish football in the 1950s and 1960s with players like Metin Oktay , Suat Mamat , İsfendiyar Açıksöz , Ali Beratlıgil and Turgay Şeren . With his move from Galatasaray to city rivals Karagümrük SK , he also became the main player in the first major transfer coup in Turkish football. This change is still fondly remembered today in major transfers in Turkish football. With the Turkish national team he took part in the 1954 World Cup. After his career as a player, he began a successful coaching career and in this role he achieved several records in Turkish football.

Player career

Childhood and youth

Kadri Aytaç was born in 1931 in Istanbul's Kasımpaşa district ( Beyoğlu district ) and grew up here in modest circumstances. His father was a tailor who specialized in the manufacture of bedding for the local area, his mother a housewife. In order to give their children a better future, the parents moved from the Black Sea region of Turkey to Istanbul, where they settled in the Kasımpaşa district. The population of what was then Kasımpaşa was made up of a large number of different groups: on the one hand there was the long-established Christian minority, consisting of the Istanbul Greeks and Armenians , and on the other hand there were long-established Turkish Istanbul people. In addition to the Roma , people who immigrated from different areas of Anatolia made up the image of the district. Those two groups belonged to the social lower class and lived on the edge of the subsistence level. Aytaç's family belonged to the latter group. In this environment, Aytaç learned to play football on the street. Here he and his friends regularly played football as a neighborhood team on an unused area opposite the famous Elhamra Pasajı (German: Alhambra-Passage ), which they had set up as a makeshift football field . Other often visited places of his youth were the Aynalıçeşme (German: Spiegelbrunnen ) and the İtalyan Yokuşu (German: The Italian slope ). Some of his friends would later become well-known figures in Turkey, such as Gazanfer Özcan (theater and film actor), Orhan Günşiray (film actor), Feridun Karakaya , also known as Cilalı İbo (comedian and film actor), Fikret Hakan (film actor) and Adnan Şenses (Musicians and actors). While his friends gradually lost interest in football, Aytaç became more and more involved in this hobby. Although his father had forbidden him to play football and beat him several times for it, he did not stop playing football. He even sewed his own soccer balls from his father's materials. After Aytaç's football talent had been praised several times in the tea house, which his father often visited, Aytaç's endeavors also won his father's goodwill.

society

Beyoğluspor

Encouraged by this family support, he tried to develop further in football. At that time, his home district had two major football clubs: Kasımpaşa Istanbul and Beyoğluspor . The latter was more popular at the time and represented rather that part of the district in which Aytaç grew up. Beyoğluspor, formerly also known as Pera SK , was actually the team of the Istanbul Greeks. Nevertheless, the association represented the entire district. In addition to the predominantly Greek-born players, the team also always included a few Turkish players. The same was true for the following.

As part of the Easter celebrations , the Christian population groups organized a football tournament in which some leaders and players from Beyoğluspor also took part. Aytaç saw this as an opportunity to attract attention. As a teenager, he went to the venue in full football gear hours before the start of the tournament. During an encounter, he approached the coaching staff of the Greek team and made audible derogatory and cheeky remarks about the team's performance, such as "Should you win the game with these players ...". Annoyed by his remarks, the coach replaced Aytaç. The young Aytaç promptly succeeded in convincing everyone present of his talent with impressive moves. After this performance, word of Aytaç's talent got around within the district's football community. So Beyoğluspor made the first offer and hired the then eighteen-year-old talent for a sum of 1000 Turkish Lira . Aytaç first played for a short time for the youth team Beyoğluspors. For a friendly against Fenerbahçe Istanbul he was included in the squad of professionals and played in this encounter from the beginning. He succeeded against the then undisputed best Turkish goalkeeper Cihat Arman a handsome goal from a distance, with Aytaç exploiting a mistake by Arman. This performance made the young talent even better known and ensured that he stayed in the professional squad. Beyoğluspor played in the İstanbul İkinci Küme (German: Second Istanbul League ), in which u. a. clubs such as Eyüpspor , Adalet Istanbul , İstanbulspor , Kasımpaşa Istanbul , Topkapı Istanbul , Rami SK and Taksim SK were also found. Aytaç became one of the league's shooting stars. So the three big clubs Fenerbahçe Istanbul, Beşiktaş Istanbul and Galatasaray Istanbul became aware of Aytaç and tried to sign him.

For the 1952/53 season, Beyoğluspor rose to what was then the most prestigious league in Turkey, the İstanbul Profesyonel Ligi (German: Istanbul Professional League ) and from then on played against Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş and Galatasaray. Aytaç was also one of the most noticeable players in this league with eight goals in 18 games.

Galatasaray Istanbul

In the summer of 1953, Beşiktaş reacted fastest through the then coach and manager Sadri Usuoğlu and reached an agreement with the player and club. The move to Beşiktaş was facilitated by the fact that Beyoğluspor completed his training in the Şeref Stadium , which was then owned by Beşiktaş. Aytaç took part with Beşiktaş in the pre-season camp in Adana Province and was used in preparatory games against Milli Mensucat SK and a selection team Adanas. When the team returned to Istanbul, the players were given a few days' leave.

Informed about the arrival of Aytaç, the then legendary player from Galatasaray Istanbul , Gündüz Kılıç (also known as Baba Gündüz), got in touch with Aytaç. Kılıç had just finished his active career and started working as an assistant coach to Galatasaray. He managed to convince Aytaç over a su muhallebisi , a type of Turkish pudding, that it would be better for his career to play for the red-yellows. Since no contracts were signed in Turkish football at the time, Aytaç could go to Galatasaray without any problems. He agreed to play for Galatasaray for 1,500 lira. From the then Hungarian coach László Székely from Galatasaray he was used in the regular team on the first day of the season and knew how to convince. On the third match day, on October 30, 1953, he scored his first league goal for his new club in the 6-0 victory of his team against Emniyet SK . By the end of the year he had played all of his team's games, scoring five goals and becoming one of the stars of the league.

The then coach of the Turkish national team , the Italian Sandro Puppo , became aware of the youngster and nominated him for the Mediterranean Cup encounter against the second selection of the Italian national team , then also known as Italy B , on December 11, 1953. In this encounter made Aytaç, who played from the start, his international debut.

His club coach Székely left the club after the 10th game day and was replaced by the previous assistant coach Gündüz Kılıç. With this coach, Galatasaray reached the runner-up title behind Beşiktaş at the end of the season, to which Aytaç, with his eleven goals in 16 league games, as the most accurate player of his team, played a decisive role. As a young and previously unknown player, he surprisingly came third in the season’s goalscorer list, behind the then stars Lefter Küçükandonyadis and Garbis İstanbulluoğlu . Due to these successes he was nominated by the national coach Puppo in the squad of Turkey for the football World Cup in 1954 , but was not used during the tournament.

In the second season at Galatasaray they won - for the first time in this only four seasons old league - the championship due to the better goal difference before Beşiktaş. Aytaç was instrumental in the success with his ten league goals and was behind Ali Beratlıgil , who scored 14 goals, the second top scorer of his club. In the following season, Metin Oktay, a then unknown young striker who was later to become one of the most important players in Turkish football, joined the team. With Metin Oktay, Suat Mamat , İsfendiyar Açıksöz , Ali Beratlıgil and Güngör Okay , Aytaç was to form an offensive team in the following years that would be legendary for both Galatasaray and Turkish football. With Oktay the title defense succeeded in the season 1955/56. Aytaç was the second top scorer with seven goals behind Oktay, who became the league's top scorer with 19 goals. This season, the effective interaction of the five offensive players in Galatasarays and especially that between Aytaç and Oktay was highlighted by the trade press. Aytaç was considered a great template for Oktay.

In the 1956/57 season Galatasaray missed the title defense and was runner-up behind arch-rivals Fenerbahçe due to the poorer goal difference. Aytaç had a rather disappointing season and lagged behind his usual performances. The missed championship caused dissatisfaction between the club's management and the previous successful coach Gündüz Kılıç . Kılıç, who was very much appreciated by the players, split up in the dispute from the club and was replaced a little later by Musa Sezer . With that coach and from December 1957 with the British George Dick Galatasaray won the championship in 1957/58. Aytaç was one of the outstanding players of the season. With 14 goals he experienced his career record and was second in the league's scorers list behind Oktay, who was again top scorer.

Karagumruk Istanbul

In the summer of 1958, after his contract with Galatasaray expired, there were transfer rumors about Aytaç in the media. It was mentioned that Galatasaray was planning to sell it for the transfer fee of 22,000 Turkish lira. When asked about this, Aytaç said that he knew nothing about it and that it offended him to learn about it from the media. Italian clubs collected information about some Turkish players, including Aytaç, through Italian coaches like Leandro Remondini , who were then active in Turkey . Italian clubs had already expressed interest in Aytaç two years earlier. Now the AS Roma were particularly interested in him. A little later, Galatasaray announced that they wanted to extend the contract with Aytaç by two seasons if the move to Italy should not take place, and Aytaç was satisfied with the proposed amount.

Then the newcomer Karamgümrük SK announced that they had agreed on a change with Aytaç and that the player would pay the astronomical sum of 57,500 lira for two seasons. To prevent Galatasaray Aytaç from changing his mind again, Aytaç was taken to an unknown location until the end of the transfer time. The move became the central topic of sports news for that season. It was the highest transfer fee to date. Galatasaray stated that the transfer was illegal and that they only wanted to let Aytaç go for a certain transfer fee. If no out-of-court agreement is reached, one will go to the sports court. After no agreement was reached within two days, Galatasaray challenged the legality of the transfer with the Turkish Football Association . The main argument put forward was that Aytaç did his military service from 1953 to 1955 parallel to his work for Galatasaray and was therefore often absent from team training. Therefore, according to the Red-Yellows, the contract, which expired in the summer of 1958, would have to be extended by the time Aytaç had spent in the military. The Galatasaray secretary responsible for legal matters, Necdet Çobanlı , announced on July 12, 1958 that Galatasaray had unilaterally extended the contract with Aytaç by one year until the summer of 1959 after reviewing the legal situation. Karamgümrük's secretary, Fahri Somer, argued to the Football Association's Committee of Inquiry that Galatasaray had signed a two-year contract with Aytaç from 1953 to 1955, i.e. precisely for the period of military service, and that after the end of this contract that matter had already been clarified . The football association rejected Galatasaray's arguments and announced in late July 1958 that the transfer to Karagümrük was legal. Thus, Karagümrük was able to introduce Aytaç as a new addition at the season opening on July 30, 1958. The departure of the most important template for the striker Metin Oktay was seen by the trade press as a great loss for Galatasaray and went down as one of the most spectacular transfers in the history of Turkish football.

At Karamgümrük, Aytaç was immediately given the captain's armband and he quickly became the star of the team. Karamgümrük had other national players such as Fahrettin Cansever , Tarık Kutver and Aydın Yelken . Thanks to this well-positioned troop, the promoted team managed to establish himself in the top third of the table and played for the championship for a long time. After a good start to the season, Aytaç dropped out in October 1958 for about ten days due to injury. For the league match against Beşiktaş Istanbul , he returned to the team. Karagümrük decided the game with a brilliant performance by Aytaç, who scored the 1-0 and was also involved in the second goal, 2-0 for himself and took over the top of the table. After 8 match days, before the home game against Galatasaray, the club rose to the top of the table. Aytaç described the top game against Galatasaray in a newspaper column before the game as the most important game of his career so far. Galatasaray won 3-2, with Aytaç missing several good scoring opportunities. He had been covered by Ahmet Karlıklı and Suat Mamat and so had hardly been able to call up his other performance. After the encounter, Karamgümrük's allegations were raised in the fan block that Aytaç had deliberately missed the goal chances against his former team. Aytaç stood up to the fans' leaders, especially Gardrop Fuat, who spread these rumors, and discussed the issue with them. They lost the second leg against Galatasaray 4-0. Aytaç fell far short of expectations in this game too, and Galatasaray became the only team that Karagümrük failed to score against that season.

From the spring of 1959, Aytaç and Karamgümrük took part in the newly founded and nationwide Millî Lig (today's Süper Lig). Up to this point in time there was no national league in Turkey, only regional leagues in the larger metropolitan areas, of which İstanbul Profesyonel Ligi (German: Istanbul Professional League) was the most renowned. The first season of the Millî Lig was played from February 1959 to June 1959 and ended with a win for Fenerbahçe Istanbul . Karagümrük was far behind in the middle of the table. Aytaç fell short of expectations. In the second season Karagümrük finished eighth in the table, with Aytaç playing a successful season. With 13 goals in 32 league games, he was the most successful goalscorer of his team. Aytaç announced that they want to leave the club with the permission of Karagümruk's management. His former club Galatasaray showed interest, but a change failed due to the excessively high transfer fee. In the summer of 1960, his contract with Karagümrük ran out, which Aytaç had the opportunity to change. Towards the end of the season he was associated with several teams. Karagümrük signaled at the end of the season that he only wanted to give up Aytaç for a high transfer fee, which was why a move to the Greek league to AEK Athens failed. In mid-June 1960, Fenerbahçe came to an agreement with the players and club management and signed a preliminary contract with Aytaç. Aytaç would receive 40,000 lira for two seasons, while Karagümrük would receive four players in return. However, Karagümrük later announced that they did not want to give up Aytaç. Above all Fahri Somer, who had brought Aytaç to Karagümrük in 1958, refused a transfer. After several voices in the club's management had pleaded for a sale Aytaçs, Somer resigned from his office. The club declared its willingness to sell Aytaç for a transfer fee of 60,000 lira.

Fenerbahçe Istanbul

After almost two months of negotiations with Karagümrük, Aytaç moved to Fenerbahçe in July 1960, which paid him 60,000 lira in salary. The total cost of the transfer was 96,000 lira. At Fenerbahçe he played with stars like Lefter Küçükandonyadis , Hilmi Kiremitçi , Can Bartu , Basri Dirimlili , Naci Erdem and İsmail Kurt and won the championship of the highest Turkish league . Aytaç contributed to this success with six goals in 30 games.

The second season was mixed for Aytaç. He completed only 23 of 38 league encounters and scored four times. Towards the end of the season he was on the bench. The championship of the 1961/62 season was won by Galatasaray Istanbul. At the beginning of the season, Gündüz Kılıç , who had previously been one of Aytaç's supporters, took over as coach again. At Fenerbahçe, changes in the team squad were decided. Since Aytaç was accused of refusing to play at the end of the season, he was one of the first players to be sold. Years later, he said about his time at Fenerbahçe that it was a very tense and problematic time for him.

Galatasaray Istanbul

After Fenerbahçe had officially announced that they wanted to give up Aytaç for a fixed transfer fee, their old club Karagümrük SK , Beşiktaş Istanbul and the first division side Yeşildirek SK signaled interest. The latter club got in touch with Aytaç through its coach Cihat Arman . The club management of Galatasaray began to seek a commitment from Aytaç and got in touch with him. But the Galatasaray coach Gündüz Kılıç initially showed a negative attitude towards a commitment Aytaçs. Then other clubs like AEK Athens and Izmirspor tried to get Aytaç. Izmirspor even announced that they had reached an agreement with Aytaç. A few days later, after a conversation with the club's board and a clarifying discussion with Aytaç, Kılıç also gave his consent to a change of his former player. On July 14, 1962, Aytaç signed a contract with Galatasaray in front of the press together with Erdoğan Gökçen , who was brought in from Beşiktaş Istanbul .

Already at the end of the past season, a return campaign was looming for the star striker Metin Oktay , who had switched to US Palermo . After they had not been able to agree on the transfer fee for a long time, the idea was to swap Oktay for Suat Mamat . After months of negotiations, Oktay's transfer was completed in late July 1962. This gave coach Kılıç back part of the legendary offensive team that had won the championship of the Istanbul professional league twice in a row six years earlier. The team won the Turkish championship title in the 1962/63 season . In addition, she won the newly introduced Turkish Football Cup and thus achieved the first double in Turkish football. In addition, in the summer of 1963 she won the newly introduced TSYD Kupası (German: Cup of the Turkish Sports Journalists' Association ) and thus collected all the trophies that existed in Turkish football. Aytaç contributed significantly to these successes with his assists for Metin Oktay, who was once again top scorer with 38 goals , and with the goals he scored himself. In addition, they reached the quarter-finals in the European Cup of National Champions of the season 1962/63 and were eliminated here against the Italian champions AC Milan . This was the best result ever achieved by a Turkish team in European football competitions.

For the new season, an important player, Suat Mamat , left the team. In the season 1963/64 failed to defend the title in the championship and they finished far behind champions Fenerbahçe in third place in the table. The title was defended in the Turkish Football Cup. The club did not play a significant role in the championship in the subsequent seasons either, but won the Turkish Football Cup two more times. There was a tense atmosphere in the team, and Aytaç was also involved in creating it. So he was suspended from the squad in autumn 1965 because he had repeatedly criticized the coach Kılıç. Aytaç was no longer considered in the team planning until the end of the season. He was disappointed with Kılıç's attitude and said that he had even agreed for Kılıç to play in an important game against arch-rivals Fenerbahçe after the anniversary of his father's death. For the last game day of the 1965/66 season , Kılıç put him in the starting line-up and thus enabled Aytaç to complete one last game for his club. With the start of the summer transfer period in 1966, he was put by Galatasaray on the list of players to be surrendered. The required transfer fee was 50,000 Turkish lira.

Mersin İdman Yurdu

After Galatasaray put it up for sale, it was associated with many clubs such as Ankara Demirspor , Bursaspor and Çukurova İdman Yurdu (renamed Mersin İdman Yurdu before the start of the 1966/67 season ). At Mersin İY, the local patron of the city of Mersin , Mehmet Emin Karamehmet , was elected club president in the early 1960s and was planning to make his club one of the top clubs in Turkish football.

So he paid the required transfer fee of 50,000 TL to Galatasaray and outperformed the other two interested parties with his financial strength. As the team's most experienced player, Aytaç was immediately named team captain. At the end of January 1967, Aytaç's former teammate from his time at Fenerbahçe, Lefter Küçükandonyadis , was introduced as the new coach at Mersin İY . At the end of the season you reached the second division championship with Mersin İY and thus the first promotion in the club's history to the first league . Aytaç was one of the top performers of the success with his nine goals in 30 games. As a second division champion you played against Izmir Denizgücü for the Prime Minister's Cup in June 1967 and won this trophy with a 2-0 victory. After the promotion achieved, Aytaç also participated in building the team for the coming season. So he flew to Italy and tried to get Sandro Puppo to work as a coach at Mersin İY for the upcoming season.

The new season started with the coach Cihat Arman and finished 10th in the table in the first season of the first division. Aytaç was already preparing for a coaching career during the 1967/68 season parallel to his playing activities and took language and training courses. Before the 1968/69 season, Aytaç completed a coaching course with Turgay Şeren , his new head coach and old teammate from his time at Galatasaray, and with other former stars such as Suat Mamat, and received a coaching license. Aytaç still played in the 1968/69 season and announced that he would end his active football career in the summer of 1969. In his last season he acted unofficially as an assistant coach in addition to his playing activities and assisted Şeren. Aytaç officially ended his footballing career with a scheduled farewell game on June 8, 1969, to which the stars of Fenerbahçe Istanbul and Beşiktaş Istanbul came in addition to the entire team from Galatasaray Istanbul. Aytaç said goodbye to the football stage with an impressive farewell game.

National team

Aytaç played his first international match for the Turkish national team at the age of twenty-two while at Galatasaray Istanbul. Moved to Galatasaray, he performed well and was one of the most noticeable players in the league. National coach Sandro Puppo nominated him for the Mediterranean Cup meeting held on December 11, 1953 against the second selection of the Italian national team .

As the next national match nomination, he was appointed to the squad of Turkey for the 1954 World Cup . At the end of the group stage, the Turkish national team took second place in the table, tied with the German team . Despite the better goal difference, according to the rules at the time, the group runners-up had to be played in a play-off between the two teams. Germany won this encounter 7-2. Due to the great competition at the time on the offensively oriented game positions, Aytaç did not play a game during the tournament.

After the 1954 World Cup , Aytaç, along with players like Metin Oktay, replaced the generation in the national team that had qualified for the World Cup. With this rejuvenated team, Turkey did not qualify for another major tournament, but it provided several surprise successes against the strongest teams in world football at the time, including 3-1 against Portugal on December 18, 1955 in Istanbul . Aytaç has been a key player in most of these successes.

On February 19, 1956, the Turkish national team played a friendly against the Hungarian national team in front of their home crowd . Turkey managed a 3-1 victory against what was then known as the " Golden Elf " and made up of players like Ferenc Puskás , Gyula Grosics , József Bozsik , Sándor Kocsis and Nándor Hidegkuti . Aytaç played through and was named by the trade press as one of the key players in this success.

In the same year, Turkey completed a friendly against the Czechoslovak national team on November 25, 1956. The Czechoslovak team had caused a stir at this point with clear victories against Brazil and Argentina and were considered the clear favorites before the match. The Turkish team surprisingly controlled the game through Aytaç's performance and narrowly missed a possible victory with a 1-1 draw.

In another test match, the Turkish team won on May 4, 1958 against the Dutch national soccer team .

Aytaç played his last international game on December 2, 1962 during a European Championship 1964 qualifier against the Italian national team .

Coaching career

Aytaç also worked as an assistant coach at Mersin İdman Yurdu in his last season as a player . After the end of his career, he also started working here as a manager. After only two months in this office, he announced his resignation.

For the 1969/70 season he took over the second division Denizlispor as head coach and thus worked for the first time in this activity. Despite attempts to recruit from Galatasaray Istanbul , Aytaç looked after the western Turkish club for about two seasons. In mid-April 1970, his contract was terminated by mutual agreement with the club's management, thus ending the two-year collaboration.

For the next season he reached an agreement with the first division team Boluspor and was introduced here as the new head coach. He trained this club for a season and then resigned from his position.

In the new season, Aytaç took over the second division Adana Demirspor and looked after them for a few months before he took over the third division Tirespor for the second half of the 1972/73 season . With Tirespor he led the table confidently over the entire time, reached the championship of the 3rd Lig at the end of the season and rose to the second highest Turkish division, the 2nd Lig. Promoted to the 2nd Lig, he trained another season Tirespor. With this provincial team he played the entire season for promotion and missed this with only two points difference to the master Zonguldakspor in 3rd place in the table.

After Aytaç had separated from Tirespor in the summer of 1974, he took over the coaching position for the second division club Orduspor in the 1974/75 season . He led this team confidently to the championship of the 2nd Lig and thus to the first promotion in the club's history. As champion of the 2nd league, Aytaç looked after the team after the end of the season in the Cup of the Youth and Sports Ministry and won this cup.

Despite the success achieved with Orduspor, the trade press announced that Aytaç would leave the promoted team and take over his old club Mersin İdman Yurdu , which is now back in the 2nd league . A few days after this news, Aytaç's departure was confirmed. Aytaç justified his departure from Orduspor with the fact that he always wants to win a championship as a coach and that this is less likely with Orduspor in the 1st Lig than with Mersin İY in the 2nd Lig . Bülent Eken took over his position at Orduspor . Before the start of the 1975/76 season, Aytaç was offered the post of head coach by his old club Galatasaray Istanbul . Since Aytaç sat in England at Arsenal under Bertie Mee for further training as a coach and was already contractually bound with Mersin İY, this change did not take place. At Mersin IY he created a powerful team over the season, which began to play for the championship lead, especially in the second half of the season. In an away game against MKE Kırıkkalespor on May 9, 1976, which was decisive for the championship , Aytaç's team led 0-1. After this hit there was massive fanfare, in which in addition to the police, the military had to be deployed. Aytaç, his wife Akgül and his daughter Gündör could only be safely removed from the stadium with the help of the police. After this broken match was rated 3-0 by the Turkish Football Association in favor of Mersin İY, Aytaç's team was given the opportunity to win the championship early on the penultimate match day. In this game, they beat Antalyaspor 5-2 at home and won the championship prematurely. Aytaç thus reached the second division championship for the second time in a row, a novelty in Turkish football and received great recognition from the specialist press. With Mersin İY promoted to the 1st Lig, Aytaç hesitated both to extend his contract and to leave the club. In line with his resolution to always want to train a team that has a real chance of winning the championship, regardless of the league affiliation, he asked the financially strong Mersin İY board to invest in the team and made his contract extension dependent on the fulfillment of this requirement. The club management rejected his demands, however, and stated that they would continue to work with another coach under these circumstances. Both sides later reached a compromise so Aytaç continued to coach. Aytaç and his team got off to a disappointing start to the new season and scored three points from the first six games. By the winter break, they improved, so that Aytaç was praised by the trade press as one of the best five coaches. In the second half of the season his team showed a further improvement and ended the season in 7th place in the table. Aytaç then received offers from several larger clubs for the head coach position, but he preferred to stay with Mersin İY and continue to work on his team. At the end of the season, Aytaç submitted a transfer list of his dream players to the club's management. In the season 1977/78 Aytaç started with a 0-0 in front of a home crowd against the reigning champions Trabzonspor .

On the second day of the match they lost 5-2 against Fenerbahçe Istanbul . Although they won the next two games confidently, there was a disagreement between Aytaç and the club's management. The club management criticized Aytaç, who in turn did not feel his achievements appreciated. After this tension had intensified during the next game days, Aytaç resigned from his position and a few days after his resignation to the second division side Rizespor . Mersin İY officials did not accept this termination and went to court because they claimed they had paid Aytaç's wages for the entire season in advance. In response to these developments, the Turkish Football Coach Association investigated the case, saw Aytaç as wrong and canceled his membership for a year. Aytaç meanwhile began his work at Rizespor and formed a powerful team that fought for the championship lead with Göztepe Izmir throughout the season . In the meantime, they took over the lead in the table towards the end of the season. On the next match day after taking over the championship lead, they drew 0-0 away against the other title contenders Ankara Şekerspor and thus handed the championship lead back to Göztepe despite the tie in points but the worse goal difference. Although they won the last three games confidently, they finished the league level on points with Göztepe as runner-up and thus missed promotion to the 1st Lig . At Göztepe Doğan Küçükduru formed a very successful storm trio on the left winger position , İrfan Ertürk ( right winger ) and Sadullah Acele ( center forward ). They were supported by playmaker Ali Çağlar . The team set a new league record with 67 league goals as the team that scored the most goals in one season. Most of these hits were scored by the aforementioned team of four. Ali Çağlar was even the top scorer in the league with 17 goals together with Raşit Çetiner from Kocaelispor . Under these extraordinary circumstances, Aytaç's team ended the season unhappy in second place.

Meanwhile, the Turkish Football Association initiated disciplinary proceedings against him in July 1978 due to Aytaç's breach of contract with Mersin İdman Yurdu . Aytaç agreed for the 1978/79 season with the first division team Samsunspor on a collaboration as sporting director. In this position Aytaç worked until the winter break and moved to the second half of the season in the role of head coach for the second division MKE Ankaragücü . Here he formed a powerful squad from a mediocre team, finished the season directly behind his old club Rizespor in 2nd place in the table and thus missed direct promotion to the 1st Lig . With the runner-up one got the opportunity for the 1978/79 season to determine the third and last climber in a play-off match against the second runner-up. This encounter against the second runner-up Kayserispor was then clearly lost with 0: 3 and also missed promotion in this instance.

For the 1979/80 season it was only announced that he would extend his contract with Ankaragücü. A contract extension did not come about later. Instead, Aytaç took over the first division club Göztepe Izmir . In addition to such notable successes as the 3-1 away win against Galatasaray Istanbul at the start of the season, they also experienced unnecessary point losses such as the 1: 3 home defeat against Gaziantepspor . After the 2: 3 defeat on the 21st match day against the direct relegation competitor Kayserispor had slipped to the last non- relegation place , Aytaç resigned from his office. Göztepe then hired his legendary player Nevzat Güzelırmak as head coach. Under this coach Göztepe slipped to the relegation places and missed relegation at the end of the season.

Aytaç coached the second division Aydınspor in the 1980/81 season . After his salary had not been paid for several months, he resigned from this position. For the season 1981/82 Aytaç took over the second division side Kayserispor . With this club he was runner-up in the 2nd Lig at the end of the season and missed promotion to the 1st Lig with two points difference, but a significantly better goal difference compared to the master Mersin İdman Yurdu .

For the new season Aytaç changed his employer again and hired the second division Gençlerbirliği Ankara . With this club he took first place in the table right at the start of the season and kept this sovereign until the end of the season. So they became second division champions several weeks before the end of the season and thus rose again to the top Turkish league after fourteen years of abstinence from the first division.

Despite the sovereign second division championship and promotion, Aytaç did not continue his work at Gençlerbirliği and switched to the second division İskenderunspor for the new season . Aytaç parted ways with his new club at the beginning of the season and instead took over the league rivals Karşıyaka SK . He also quickly made a name for himself with Karşıyaka. In the league they delivered a head-to-head race for the championship of the 2nd league with Eskişehirspor . In addition, they caused a sensation as a second division team in the Turkish Football Cup . So they prevailed against first division clubs like Gençlerbirliği Ankara and Galatasaray Istanbul and met Trabzonspor, which dominated Turkish football at the time, in the semifinals . The first game they lost away in a hard-fought game with 0: 1. In the second leg they reached a 0-0 draw and were just eliminated from the eventual Turkish double winner of the season. In the league, the club only missed the second division championship and, as a result, promotion on the last day of the game and was second in the table with one point behind champions Eskişehirspor. After this successful but unfortunate season at the end of the season, Aytaç agreed with the club's management on a continuation of the employment relationship. Also in the new season they showed surprising performances in the Turkish Football Cup, eliminated the first division clubs Bursaspor and Kocaelispor and met Beşiktaş Istanbul in the quarter-finals . Here they lost their first game in front of a home crowd with 0: 2 and fought for a 1: 1 away win in the second leg. In the league this time they only reached the runner-up behind Samsunspor and missed promotion to the 1st league for the second time in a row.

After two years he left Karşıyaka SK in the summer of 1985 and remained without activity until about the middle of the first half of the 1985/86 season. He then took over the second division Konyaspor . He looked after this club until the end of the season and left it after the promotion was missed.

For the season 1986/87 he took over his former club, the second division club Orduspor . Aytaç experienced a rather disappointing season with Orduspor and finished the table in 8th place. After Aytaç had spent the first half of the 1987/88 season without activity, he took over his old club, the first division club Gençlerbirliği Ankara , which was on a relegation zone. After the hoped-for improvement did not occur with Aytaç and Gençlerbirliği was still in a relegation zone, Aytaç was relieved of his position in early March.

After this resignation, Aytaç stayed away from the coaching business until April 1990 and took over his relegation-threatened former club, the first division club Karşıyaka SK , on matchday 28 . With five wins and one draw in the remaining seven games, he finished eighth with his team.

Despite the sure relegation with Karşıyaka Aytaç left the club and took over the second division Mersin İdman Yurdu for the third time . With this team he quickly formed a competitive team and fought head-to-head with Adana Demirspor over the entire season . Only on the penultimate day of the match was the decision made during the league encounters between these two teams. Before this game, Adana Demirspor was in first place due to the better goal difference. In a hard-fought game, Adana Demirspor won 3-2 and extended his lead with two points. Mersin İY and his team only got one point in the two remaining games and ended the season in 3rd place in the table. At the end of the season, Aytaç left Mersin.

In the spring of 1992 Aytaç began to train the first division relegated Zeytinburnuspor and reached the runner-up with this at the end of the season.

For the 1992/93 season he took over Mersin İdman Yurdu again . With this club he played for promotion throughout the season, lost with his team towards the end of the season the connection to the promotion places and thus missed promotion at the end of the season.

After Aytaç had remained unemployed for the 1993/94 season, he took over the second division club İstanbulspor for the 1994/95 season . At the beginning of the 1990s, the businessman Cem Uzan bought his way into the club as a patron and was elected president of the club. Through the acquisition of seasoned first division professionals, they rose again to the second division after nine years in the 1991/92 season . After promotion to the 2nd Lig Uzan invested all the more in the team, but could not achieve anything for two seasons. For the 1994/95 season, Aytaç, the most successful coach in the history of the second division, was hired. In addition, current stars were signed in the past few years with Altan Aksoy , Fuat Buruk and Hamdi Demirtaş . Aytaç quickly formed a competitive squad, with which they immediately settled in the upper third of the table and were almost consistently on a promotion spot. The season ended behind Karşıyaka SK as runner-up and rose again to the 1st Lig after a 24-year absence . With this promotion, Aytaç achieved the fourth promotion to the 1st Lig, which made him a record holder in Turkish football in this regard. After this success, Aytaç left Istanbulspor and was replaced by the well-known Dutch coach Leo Beenhakker .

Aytaç remained without activity for the next half year before he took over the Istanbul second division club Kartalspor for the second half of the season . He also put this club on the road to success straight away. So you ended the relegation round of the 1996/97 season as leaders and secured the opportunity to achieve promotion to the 1st Lig via the play-offs of the season . In the play-off phase they eliminated Mersin İdman Yurdu in the quarter-finals with a 2-0 victory . In the semifinals they met Adanaspor . They lost this game 7-8 on penalties. For Kartalspor, this achievement was the greatest success in the club's history to date. At the end of the season, Aytaç left this club.

In March, Aytaç took over the Istanbul second division side Nişantaşıspor , who were threatened with relegation , but missed relegation at the end of the season. Since Aytaç was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1998 , he ended his coaching career.

death

After Aytaç was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1998, he retired entirely from the football business. He lived with this disease for another five years and died on March 28, 2003 of its consequences. Two days after his death, after the funeral prayer, he was buried in the Şişli mosque in the Feriköy cemetery . He left his wife Akgül and daughter Güngör.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Awards

Trivia

  • Aytaç entered on February 25, 1959 during the game of the 2nd matchday of the 1st season of the Süper Lig , then called Millî Lig , the first penalty in Turkish first division history. At that time at Karagümrük SK , the goalkeeper of the opposing team, Baskın Soysal , was able to save the shot. This made Aytaç the first player in first division history to miss a penalty. The first converted penalty in first division history achieved Lefter Küçükandonyadis on March 15, 1959 on the 4th match day against Beykozspor .
  • Aytaç's military service lasted five years. His activities for the Turkish national military team were decisive for this long duration. Because those responsible did not want to do without Aytaç, they repeatedly extended his military service.
  • After his official departure from active football, he switched to the teams that he had coached on some occasions or when necessary. At these games he performed well with his graying head and astonished the trade press and the public again and again with his fitness. Aytaç's missions were repeatedly mentioned in the specialist press.

Web links

Individual evidence

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