Sabih Arca
| Sabih Arca | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | 1901 | |
| place of birth | Istanbul , Ottoman Empire | |
| date of death | April 24, 1979 | |
| Place of death | Istanbul, Turkey | |
| position | Sturm , midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| until 1917 | Fenerbahçe Istanbul | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1917-1929 | Fenerbahçe Istanbul | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1923-1926 | Turkey | 9 (3) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Sabih Arca (* 1901 in Istanbul ; † April 24, 1979 ibid) was a Turkish football player and official. Through his long work for Fenerbahçe Istanbul and as a home-grown man, he is very strongly associated with this club. He has been involved in several important successes in Fenerbahçe in particular and Turkish football in general. In 1923 he was part of the Fenerbahçes starting eleven in General Harington Kupası and was in the starting line-up in the first international match for the Turkish national team . In the 1950s he worked for a few years as an official of the Turkish Football Association and in the 1960s and 1970s as an official of Fenerbahçes.
Player career
Front row - Ragıp Mağden , Sekip Kulaksizoglu , Alaattin Baydar .
societies
Arca learned to play football in the youth department of Fenerbahçe Istanbul . After the entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War on August 2, 1914, all football players from Fenerbahçe's first team and from the other Istanbul teams were gradually drafted into military service. So inevitably younger players moved up to the first men's team. Young Arca was one of those players. For the first team Fenerbahçes Arca began from the 1917/18 season in the İstanbul Cuma Ligi (German: Istanbul Friday League), the most prestigious league in the country at the time. This league was the only one that continued to play between 1915 and 1918. With his team Arca was in the Cuma League season 1917/18 behind Altınordu İdman Yurdu second in the league.
But since the Ottoman Empire was one of the losers, at the end of the First World War, its capital, Istanbul, was occupied by military troops of the British , French and Italians . As a result of the war situation and the subsequent occupation of Istanbul , the Cuma Ligi was no longer continued after the summer of 1918. The English groups organized their own clubs and a league. Due to this occupation, almost all local clubs, with the exception of Fenerbahçe, restricted their activities for about two years.
During the occupation, the English and French occupation forces founded their own clubs and also organized several league systems. Except for Fenerbahçe, all other Turkish clubs refused to play in a league with the occupying teams. Fenerbahçe participated very successfully in these leagues and tournaments and won 60 of the 68 games against the occupying teams, drew four times and lost only four games. As a result, the popularity of Fenerbahçe among the local population increased significantly and the games became a reflection of the tense situation within the city. In this environment, Arca and Fenerbahçe took part in the reintroduced Friday League from the summer of 1920. Already in his first season after the resumption of the league operation, the season 1920/21, Arca won the championship of the Friday league with Fenerbahçe. After the championship of the 1921/22 season was awarded to arch rivals Galatasaray, Arca won the championship of the 1922/23 season with Fenerbahçe. This championship, in which Fenerbahçe played twelve games, reached the team unbeaten and clean.
Before the end of the occupation of Istanbul, the commander of all occupying forces of Istanbul, General Charles Harington Harington , organized a cup game named after him, General Harington Kupası . For this game, which Harington attached great importance to winning, he personally organized a selection tournament within the occupying teams, in which the Irish Guards, Grenadiers Guards and Coldstream Guards participated. After the tournament games, he selected the players he considered suitable from these three teams. In addition, he had four professional football players from the British troops stationed in Egypt and Gibraltar brought to Istanbul especially for this game . From all these football players he had a team set up, which he named Coldstream Guards . He then had an advertisement printed in a daily newspaper that the Coldstream Guards were challenging the Turkish team and that they could compete against them in General Harington Kupası in any combination. Fenerbahçe responded to this newspaper ad by saying that they would only accept the challenge with their own squad. Both teams competed against each other on June 29, 1923 in the Taksim Stadium . Arca was one of his team's starting XI in this historic game. Fenerbahçe won the prestigious game 2-1 and caused great joy among the local population.
With the end of the occupation of Istanbul and the establishment of modern Turkey, football was also reformed in Istanbul. After several Istanbul leagues such as the Friday League and Sunday League existed in parallel in some seasons and competed with one another, the Istanbul Futbol Ligi (German Istanbul Football League ) was introduced in the summer . This league replaced or united all previous leagues and ensured that all known Istanbul clubs played in the same league. Arca took part with his team in this league from then on and played for Fenerbahçe in this league until the summer of 1929, without being able to win the championship of this league once. Only in the season 1924/25 he did not take part with his club in the competition of this league. In the summer Arca took part with the national team in the 1928 Summer Olympics and then ended his active football career.
National team
Arca made his first international appearance in the first game of the Turkish national team . In the game against the Romanian national team , he was in the starting line-up and played for the full season. He made a total of nine international matches and scored three goals.
Functionary career
Arca worked as an official for the Turkish Football Association in the 1950s . In March 1967 he was elected to the cabinet of the new club president Faruk Ilgaz at Fenerbahçe Istanbul . In August 1967 he resigned from this office.
Arca was also on the board of Fenerbahçes (Turkish: Divan Kurulu ) and remained a member of the board until his death.
successes
- With Fenerbahçe Istanbul
- Master of Istanbul Cuma Ligi : 1920/21, 1922/23
- General Harington Kupası : 1923
- Winner in Makriköy Gençlerbirliği Turnuvası
Web links
- Sabih Arca in the database of weltfussball.de
- Sabih Arca in the database of the Turkish Football Federation (English)
- Sabih Arca in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)
- Sabih Arca in the database of EU-Football.info (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ kimkimdir.gen.tr: "Sabih Arca ( 1901-1981 )"
- ↑ mujdatyetkiner.com: "Sabih Arca Fenerbahçeli efsane futbolcu" (accessed on November 24, 2014)
- ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi 1917/18 sezonu" ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 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. (accessed on November 24, 2014)
- ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi tüm sezonu" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. (accessed on November 24, 2014)
- ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "Cuma Ligi 1922/23 sezonu" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 25, 2013)
- ^ April 11, 1964, Milliyet, p. 8
- ↑ June 17, 1980, Milliyet, p.11
- ↑ ntvmsnbc.com: "General Harington Kupası" (accessed September 26, 2013)
- ↑ fenerbahce.org: "General Harington Kupası" (accessed on September 26, 2013)
- ↑ turkfutbolu.net: "İstanbul Futbol Ligi 1924/25 sezonu" ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 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. (accessed on September 25, 2013)
- ^ Dec. 26, 1978, Milliyet, p. 16
- ↑ October 13, 1955, Milliyet, p. 8
- ↑ March 21, 1967, Milliyet, p. 10: "Fenerbahçe'nin yeni yöneticileri"
- ↑ September 1, 1967, Milliyet, p. 8
- ↑ April 25, 1979, Milliyet, p. 16: "Millî takımın eski futbolcularından Sabih Arca vefat etti"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arca, Sabih |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish soccer player and official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul , Turkey |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1979 |
| Place of death | Istanbul , Turkey |