Lefter Küçükandonyadis

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Lefter Küçükandonyadis
Lefter Küçükandonyadis.jpg
Lefter Küçükandonyadis (2009)
Personnel
birthday December 22, 1925
place of birth Büyükada ( Istanbul ),  Turkey
date of death January 13, 2012
Place of death Şişli (Istanbul), Turkey
size 168 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1938-1941 Taksim SK
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1941-1943 Taksim SK
1947-1951 Fenerbahçe Istanbul
1951-1952 AC Florence 30 00(4)
1952-1953 OGC Nice 12 00(2)
1953-1964 Fenerbahçe Istanbul at least 231 (135)
1964 AEK Athens 5 00(2)
1967-1968 Boluspor 12 00(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1948-1963 Turkey 46 (21)
1950-1951 Turkey U21 3 0(1)
1950 Turkey-B 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1965 Egaleo AO Athens
1965-1966 Supersport United
1966-1967 Ferikoy SK
1967 Mersin İdman Yurdu
1967-1968 Boluspor ( player-coach )
1970 Samsunspor
1970-1971 Sivasspor
1971-1972 Samsunspor
1972 Orduspor
1 Only league games are given.

Lefter Küçükandonyadis ( Greek Λευτέρης Αντωνιάδης Lefteris Antoniadis ; born December 22, 1925 in Büyükada , Istanbul ; † January 13, 2012 in Şişli , Istanbul) was a Greek-born Turkish football player . Due to his many years of successful and sporting achievements for Fenerbahçe Istanbul , he is considered a Fenerbahçe sports legend, also in Turkish football history. He is one of five players who will be named in the official Fenerbahçe March .

Career

His nickname was Ordinaryüs because of his meticulous goal scoring . Lefter was always true to his nickname, he scored 832 goals in his running career.

Lefter Küçükandonyadis (1958)

society

Küçükandonyadis began his football career at Taksim SK and played for them until 1943. He then did four years of military service and in 1947 moved to Fenerbahçe Istanbul . The striker played for them for fifteen years between 1947 and 1964, with a two-year break, where he scored 423 goals in 615 games. With Fenerbahçe he won two Istanbul professional championships and was four times Turkish national champion . In the 1951/52 season Küçükandonyadis was active in the Italian Serie A at Fiorentina , where he completed 30 games and scored four goals. He spent the 1952/53 season at OGC Nice in the French Division 1 . Küçükandonyadis had a brief engagement at AEK Athens in the 1964/65 season before temporarily ending his active career. Between 1967 and 1968 he was active again at the age of 40 as the player-coach of the then Turkish second division team Boluspor and played over ten competitive games, after which Küçükandonyadis finally ended his active football career.

National team

He was a total of 50 national players . He was the team captain in eight games . With his final 21 goals for the Turkish national soccer team , he was the record scorer for four decades and was only replaced by Hakan Şükür in 1997 .

The Greek-born striker made his game and goal debut on April 23, 1948 in the Panathinaikos Stadium in a 3-1 win over Greece .

Later in the summer of 1948 Küçükandonyadis took part with the national team at the 14th Summer Olympics in London . In the Olympic soccer tournament they reached the quarter-finals and were eliminated from the later silver medal winners of the Yugoslav Olympic soccer selection. The quarter-finals of the Turkish national team was one of the greatest international successes in the history of the Turkish football association's national team .

With Lefter, Turkey took part in the finals of a soccer world championship for the first time in 1954 . In that tournament he scored two goals in three games, and Küçükandonyadis ran for the first time for the Turkish national team as a team captain. He was the first player to receive the Football Association's Gold Medal of Honor for his achievements .

On February 19, 1956, Küçükandonyadis sealed the end of the era of the legendary Golden Elf Hungary with his two goals in a 3-1 win at Mithatpaşa Stadı in a friendly international match.

Life after the football player career

Life-size statue by Lefter Küçükandonyadis in Kadıköy (2014)

After retiring from active football, Küçükandonyadis was club manager in Greece and Johannesburg in South Africa . In addition, he managed several clubs in Turkey, such as: Feriköy SK , Mersin Idmanyurdu , Boluspor , Samsunspor and Orduspor . Furthermore, he took over the second division side Sivasspor in November 1970 and replaced the resigned coach Naci Özkaya . He looked after this club until the end of the season and then left the city without prior notice, including the club.

Küçükandonyadis later worked as a columnist . On May 3, 2009, Lefter Küçükandonyadis was dedicated a life-size statue in Kuşdili Park in Istanbul's Kadıköy district for his extraordinary achievements and successes for Fenerbahçe, which he inaugurated himself.

He died of natural causes on January 13, 2012. A funeral service in honor of Lefter Küçükandonyadis was held in the football stadium of Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadı in Fenerbahçe, which was attended by current Fenerbahçe players, club president Aziz Yıldırım and then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . The Greek-born Küçükandonyadis was buried in his birthplace on the Istanbul island of Büyükada in the Greek Orthodox cemetery.

Achievements and Awards

Personal honors

Lefter Küçükandonyadis in the jersey of the Turkish national team (1948)

Records

Web links

Commons : Lefter Küçükandonyadis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b fenerbahce.org: "CAMİAMIZIN ACI KAYBI" (accessed November 30, 2014)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k UEFA .com: Fenerbahçe legend Lefter died on January 14, 2012 . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ fenerbahce.org: "Fenerbahçe Songs" (accessed November 25, 2014)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Lefter Küçükandonyadis in the database of EU-Football.info (English). Retrieved February 24, 2019.
  5. ↑ Hakan Şükür in the database of EU-Football.info (English). Retrieved February 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ Zeki Rıza Sporel in the EU-Football.info database. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
  7. ↑ November 17, 1970, Milliyet, p. 10.
  8. ↑ June 8, 1971, Milliyet, p. 8.
  9. ↑ Turks say goodbye to Küçükandonyadis ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2016 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. , euronews January 16, 2012, accessed on February 28, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.euronews.com
  10. ↑ Fenerbahce.org: Lefter was buried in Büyükada (Turkish) on January 15, 2012
  11. ↑ a b Turkey - List of Istanbul League Topscorers in the RSSSF database . Retrieved January 8, 2020.
  12. ↑ a b Turkey - List of Topscorers in the RSSSF database . Retrieved January 8, 2020.
  13. ^ February 26, 1986, Milliyet, p. 15.
  14. ↑ April 25, 1965, Milliyet, p. 12: "42 yılın en iyi onbiri"
  15. ↑ Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu : Most successful goalscorer of the Turkish national team (Turkish) - (accessed on February 24, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Küçükandonyadis, Lefter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antoniadis, Lefteris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2012
Place of death Istanbul