Zeki Rıza Sporel
| Zeki Rıza Sporel | ||
 Zeki Rıza Sporel (1928)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | February 28, 1898 | |
| place of birth | Istanbul , Turkey | |
| date of death | 4th November 1969 | |
| Place of death | Istanbul , Turkey | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1912-1915 | Fenerbahçe Istanbul | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1915-1934 | Fenerbahçe Istanbul | 332 (470) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1923-1934 | Turkey | 16 (15) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Zeki Rıza Sporel (* 28. February 1898 in Istanbul ; † 4. November 1969 ) was a Turkish football player and one of the most successful goal scorers of Turkish football .
Player career
Front row: Ragıp Mağden , Sekip Kulaksizoglu , Alaattin Baydar
societies
Zeki started his career in the youth teams of Fenerbahçe Istanbul . In 1915 he made the leap into the senior team as a striker . In the next 18 years at Fenerbahçe he scored 470 goals in 332 games, an average of 1.42 goals per game. With his 470 goals for Fenerbahçe, he is still the most successful goalscorer in the club's history. In the seasons 1920/21, 1922/23, 1929/30 and 1932/33 he won the Istanbul championship with Fenerbahçe, a national league did not exist at that time. With his goals for Fenerbahçe, he made a significant contribution to the fact that the club achieved 66 wins, 2 draws and not a single defeat in the middle of the First World War or from 1914 to 1921 of the 68 games against the selection teams of the military occupiers of Istanbul from England and France.
National team
Zeki went down in Turkish football history because he scored the first goal for the newly founded Turkish republic in the first game of the newly founded Turkish national team - a friendly against Romania on October 26, 1923 in Istanbul's Taksim Stadium . In the 4-2 win against Finland on June 17, 1924 - the first victory of the Turkish national team - Zeki Rıza Sporel met four times and scored all of Turkey's goals. In total, he played 16 times for the Turkish national team and scored 15 goals. He wore the national team's armband ten times. For a long time he was the national team's record scorer until he was overtaken by Lefter Küçükandonyadis . In 1934, in his farewell game for Fenerbahçe, Zeki scored against FC Wien with a free kick from 35 meters. Then he ended his football career. From 1955 to 1957 he was President of Fenerbahçe Istanbul.
successes
As a player
- With Fenerbahçe Istanbul
- İstanbul Futbol Ligi : 1920/21, 1922/23, 1929/30, 1932/33
- İstanbul Cuma Ligi : 1920/21, 1922/23
- İstanbul Şildi : 1930
- General Harington Kupası : 1923
- With the Turkish national team
- Participation in the Summer Olympics : 1924
Trivia
- In 1965, in a competition organized by the daily Cumhuriyet , he was voted into the best team of the past 42 years, ie since the Turkish Football Association was founded .
Web links
- Zeki Rıza Sporel in the database of weltfussball.de
- Zeki Rıza Sporel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Zeki Rıza Sporel in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
- Zeki Rıza Sporel in the mackolik.com database (Turkish)
- Zeki Rıza Sporel in the database of footballdatabase.eu (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ October 14, 1982, Milliyet, p. 12: "Zeki Rıza Sporel"
- ↑ April 25, 1965, Milliyet, p. 12: "42 yılın en iyi onbiri"
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sporel, Zeki Rıza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish soccer player and official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 1969 |
| Place of death | Istanbul |