Mehmet Ekşi

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Mehmet Ekşi
Personnel
birthday April 1, 1953
place of birth Elazığ ,  Turkey
position Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years station
Elazığspor
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1977 Elazığspor
1977-1979 Trabzonspor 49 (9)
1979-1984 Beşiktaş Istanbul 118 (9)
1983-1984 →  Karagümrük SK  (loan) 23 (4)
1984-1985 Antalyaspor 38 (4)
1985-1986 Konyaspor 14 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1978 Turkey U-21 1 (0)
1978-1981 Turkey 6 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1989-1990 Ferikoy SK
1991-1992 Elazığspor
1994-1995 Nişantaşıspor
1998 MKE Kırıkkalespor
1999-2000 Ferikoy SK
2000 Çaykur Rizespor (assistant coach)
2000-2001 Kocaelispor (assistant coach)
2001-2002 Maltepespor
2002-2005 Beşiktaş Istanbul (Offspring)
2005 Beşiktaş Istanbul (interim)
2007-2009 Beşiktaş Istanbul (Offspring)
2009 Sarıyer SK
1 Only league games are given.

Mehmet Ekşi (born April 1, 1953 in Elazığ ) is a former Turkish football player and coach. Through his many years of work for Beşiktaş Istanbul and as team captain, he is associated with this club and is regarded as one of the most important personalities in the club's history. So he was part of the Beşiktaş 'team that won the Turkish championship again in the 1981/82 season after 15 years without a title . Before that, he played for Trabzonspor for two seasons and during this time was an important and consistent player in the club's team that was the first Anatolian team to win the Turkish championship. He was part of the big team of this club for two seasons, which dominated Turkish football for a decade from 1975 under the nickname Karadeniz Fırtınası .

Player career

society

The beginnings of Ekşi's football career are undocumented. So he played until the mid-1970s in the youth department of the Elazığspor club , the club in his hometown Elazığ. He started professional football with this club, which was then active in the 2nd Turkish league .

For the 1974-75 season, succeeded Trabzonspor as the first club in the northern Turkish port city of Trabzon in the 1. Lig ascend. This club had been founded seven years earlier through the merger of several local clubs and had the intention to represent the city of Trabzon in the 1st Lig. The first season in the top Turkish league ended the Trabzonspor team in ninth place in the table and also reached the Turkish Cup final for the first time in the club's history . In the second first division season, the club surprisingly won the Turkish championship. Up to this season, the three big Istanbul clubs Beşiktaş Istanbul , Fenerbahçe Istanbul and Galatasaray Istanbul decided the championship of the 1st Lig among themselves. The team also won the President's Cup and the Prime Minister's Cup this season . In the 1976/77 season , the club succeeded in defending its title in the Turkish championship and its first title in the Turkish Cup. With this, the club achieved the first Turkish double victory in club history. After these very successful two seasons After these very successful two seasons, the club strengthened with other young players, including Ekşi. At his new club he gradually rose to become a regular player. Despite these reinforcements, his club awarded the championship to Fenerbahçe in the 1977/78 season with a point difference, but was able to get the two remaining cups. Trabzonspor also ran into major financial difficulties in 1978 and saw the solution in selling some stars. In addition, they wanted to carry out a revision in the team squad. Favored by the departure of a service provider, Ekşi finally conquered a regular place. At the end of the season, his team again won the Turkish Championship and the President's Cup , an earlier version of the later Turkish Supercup . Ekşi completed 34 competitive games this season and was with his teammate Turgay Semercioğlu one of two games with the most competitive appearances of his club. This season Ekşi was also a Turkish national team player.

Ekşi fell on the club officials of the traditional Istanbul club Beşiktaş Istanbul during the 1977/78 season . They got in touch with Ekşi in March 1979 and agreed to change at the end of the season. At the end of the season he finally left Trabzonspor and moved to Beşiktaş. Here he was immediately used as a regular by head coach Serpil Hamdi Tüzün . With his club he experienced an unexpectedly difficult season and only reached relegation on the last day of the match. In the season 1980/81 his team occupied after two unsuccessful years with the fifth place in the table again a place in the table in the upper half of the table. For the 1981/82 season was Đorđe Milić set as the new head coach. Under this Ekşi also remained a regular player and was the player with the second most competitive appearances for his club. At the end of the season, the team reached the Turkish championship they had been hoping for for fifteen years . Ekşi's team fought head-to-head for the Turkish championship this season with the Anatolian club Trabzonspor , which then dominated Turkish football . In the end, Beşiktaş prevailed and became Turkish football champions again after fifteen years. In the 1982/83 season Ekşi was a captain for some time. During this season, Ekşi was also involved in a fatal mistake by his club. Since the yellow-suspended Ekşi was used in the cup quarter-final game of May 4, 1983 against arch rivals Fenerbahçe, the game was rated with a 0-3 defeat for Fenerbahçe.

In the summer of 1983, his club extended the expired contract with Ekşi. Despite this contract extension, he and his teammates Bora Öztürk and Serdar Bali were suspended from the team in August 1983 and put on the sales list. After Ekşi was reassigned to the squad in mid-September 1983 and was used in the league game against Adanaspor , he was suspended again in late September 1983. Finally, in November 1983, he was loaned to the league and city rivals Karagümrük SK together with Serdar Bali . At the end of the season he returned to Beşiktaş and was sold to league rivals Antalyaspor in the 1984 summer transfer period . At this club, he immediately established himself as a regular player and headed the defense as a libero in all 24 league games. But since he missed relegation with his team, he went with this in the 2nd Turkish league. For this he only played the second half of the 1985/86 season and switched to league rivals Konyaspor during the corresponding winter break . After he had worked for the Central Anatolians for half a season, he ended his career in the summer of 1988.

National team

Ekşi began his national team career in 1978 with a use for the Turkish U-21 national team .

Ekşi was nominated for the first time for the squad of the Turkish national team in November 1978 by national coach Sabri Kiraz as part of a qualifying match for the 1988 European Championship against the Welsh national team and made his international debut in this match. By April 1981 he completed five more A-internationals, his last on April 15, 1981 in the qualifying game of the 1982 World Cup against the Czechoslovak national team .

Coaching career

Ekşi began his coaching career in 1989 with the Istanbul third division club Feriköy SK as head coach. Then he took over in 1991 with Elazığspor the club of his hometown. This activity was followed by positions at Nişantaşıspor , MKE Kırıkkalespor and most recently for the second time at Feriköy SK.

From March 2000 he started as assistant coach to Rasim Kara , his former teammate from his Beşiktaş time, and accompanied him to his coaching stations Çaykur Rizespor and Kocaelispor .

After he had worked as head coach for Istanbul third division club Maltepespor in the 2001/12 season , he began working as a youth coach at Beşiktaş Istanbul in the summer of 2002 . In October 2005 he took over the professional team Beşiktaş Istanbul on an interim basis. Here he replaced the resigned Rıza Çalımbay and handed over his post to the new head coach Jean Tigana a month later . Between 2007 and 2009 he worked at Beşiktaş one more time as a junior coach. For the 2009 season he was introduced to the Istanbul third division team Sarıyer SK as head coach and stayed in this position until November 2009.

successes

As a player

With Trabzonspor
With Beşiktaş Istanbul

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ March 20, 1979, Milliyet, p. 16
  2. ↑ April 15, 1983, Milliyet, p. 14: "Beşiktaş'lı Bora iş hayatina atıldı"
  3. ↑ May 7, 1983, Milliyet, p. 1: "Beşiktaş, F.Bahçe'ye yenik sayıldı"
  4. ↑ June 9, 1983, Milliyet, p. 14
  5. ↑ August 31, 1983, Milliyet, p. 14: "Bora'ya 300 bin lira ceza verildi"
  6. ↑ September 24, 1983, Milliyet, p. 15: "Adem ve Mehmet Ekşi Beşiktaş'ın kamp kadrosuna alınmadılar"
  7. ↑ November 1, 1983, Milliyet, p. 10: "Beşiktaş Mehmet Ekşi ve Serdar'ı 15 milyon liraya Karagümrük'e kiraladı"
  8. ↑ August 1, 1984, Milliyet, p. 11: "Futbol alişverişi sona erdi"
personal data
SURNAME Ekşi, Mehmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Elazığ , Turkey