Suleyman Oktay

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Suleyman Oktay
Personnel
Surname İsmail Süleyman Oktay
birthday January 1, 1959
place of birth Istanbul ,  Turkey
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
until 1977 Beşiktaş Istanbul
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1984 Beşiktaş Istanbul 89 (5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1979 Turkey U-21 2 (0)
1981 Turkey 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2000-2002 Beşiktaş Istanbul (youth coach)
1 Only league games are given.

İsmail Süleyman Oktay (born January 1, 1959 in Istanbul ) is a former Turkish football player and coach. As a native and long-standing player, he is associated with Beşiktaş Istanbul . With this club he also played his entire career. Due to his position and his hydrogen-blonde hair, he was retrospectively linked to the Dutch defensive star Ronald Koeman . Like Koeman, Oktay was feared because of his strong shots, with which he scored several long-range hits. Because of his blonde hair, he was called Sarı Süleyman (German: Blonder Süleyman ) during the playing days .

Player career

society

Oktay began with the club football in the youth of the traditional Istanbul club Beşiktaş . Here he was included in the professional squad with a professional contract for the 1977/78 season on the instructions of the then head coach Milovan Ćirić . He made his debut for the professional team at the TSYD tournament encounter on August 12, 1977 against arch rivals Fenerbahçe Istanbul . Ćirić left the club after this preseasonal tournament and was replaced by a player legend of the club, Recep Adanır . This preferred more experienced players so that Oktay either sat on the bench for the rest of the season or was active for the reserve team. Adanır was replaced by Miloš Milutinović during the season . Under this coach, Oktay then played his first first division encounter towards the end of the season.

In his second season, the 1978/79 season , he received two short appearances at the beginning of the season under the new coach Doğan Andaç and then sat on the bench until the start of the second half of the season . On the first day of the second half of the season, he was in the starting line-up and played the full length of the game. With this game he achieved his breakthrough, so that from then on he had a regular place. At the end of the season, Andaç was replaced by Serpil Hamdi Tüzün . Even under Tüzün, Oktay kept his regular place and continued to develop into a service provider. 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 season 1981/82 Đorđe Milić was hired as the new head coach. Oktay was also initially set under this and even made it to the national team in October 1981. During the winter break he then lost his regular place and from then on no longer played regularly. At the end of the season, the team reached the Turkish championship they had been hoping for for fifteen years .

The next two seasons Oktay was no longer preferred by the coaches and came as a supplementary player to some missions. In the summer of 1984 then ended his active professional football player career.

National team

Oktay ran twice for the Turkish U-21 national team in 1979 . During a World Cup 1982 qualifier against the national team of the USSR Oktay was nominated by the then national coach Fethi Demircan in the team of the Turkish national team . In this game of October 7, 1981, he played his first and only international match.

Coaching career

Oktay worked from the summer of 2000 for two years as a junior coach at Beşiktaş Istanbul .

successes

As a player

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Turkey - USSR October 12th, 7th 1981 in tff.org.
personal data
SURNAME Oktay, Suleyman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oktay, İsmail Süleyman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey