Vitaly Pasichny talks about the rival of Dynamo Kiev.
If someone in the heat of passion (at the same time, however, there is less and less of this) calls Ukraine a football land, I will guess the Turkish league again. If in the country, where the economy is dealt with worse, it is worse in the warring Ukraine, and because of the conflict, it is often richer, to find the strength and time to fill the majestic stadiums, to encourage.
Galatasaray is more than just a football club. This is the culture, religion, and sense of life of millions of Turks. You yourself remember this horde of fans who can and bring to their lovers I can help you in any Internet voting, and spam the social media of the gravel, who, in your opinion, would like to find the best jerel, to quote. Galatasaray, like Fenerbahce and Besiktas, is a special value in Turkish culture, but, for all things before other “whales”, the largest.
Galatasaray ranks 19th in the new world ranking of football clubs for the number of fans. 45 million followers collect “Levy” in total from four social networks “Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Tiktok”. The price is 8 million more, lower than Romi's from 20 million; The Ukrainian club must not be included in the top 100. It’s not surprising: Shakhtar and Dynamo on Instagram have not reached one million followers, it’s funny to talk about others.
Now try to equalize the results of Galatasaray in the rest of the years, either with Roma, or with Shakhtar, or with Dynamo. The Turks have been in trouble for a long time in the international arena: no one else has ever heard a stink. Great history? It was easy to be a big guy for the beat, the lower Turks until the 1980s - then it was the absolute norm for him to outperform his first opponent. The championship is weak, inflation is high - why should the Turks go to the stadiums of grandees like a mosque: this is the obligatory program.
The home stadium of Galatasaray is called “Hell” for the encouragement of fans and, therefore, such a nuclear audience cannot help but create more, less comfortable minds for life. The current title sponsor of Galatasaray pays the club 100 million euros for five years of contract. The TV contract, due to economic problems, has become significantly cheaper - and now Turkish clubs will earn more than 127.88 million euros on the river. And how much money is spent on tickets, merchandise, and matches. A different world - unfortunately, for all our managers, who decided to compare themselves with the top leagues, and not with Galatasaray.
The end of the eighties and the beginning of the nineties became a breakthrough for the Turks, when the top players and coaches of the top leagues became increasingly willing to go beyond the border. The people who lifted the curtain for all the coming days were Tomislav Ivic and Jupp Derval. The first one is a remarkable trainer-mandrel, who changed leagues throughout his career and then became the champion of Yugoslavia, Portugal, Turkey, France, Belgium and the Netherlands (and still won the Cup in Spain. The other is just a meter, which collected Germany leading to victory in the Euro, and before Turkey arrived immediately after the Bundestim.
Such recognitions formed the picture that we have been studying so far. First of all, bright coaches go to Turkey: in one era Derval, in another del Bosque, and in the third Mourinho. In other words, the dawn gravers are coming - and now the stinks began to go not to the mirror trainers, but simply. The same Galatasaray has already signed a whole European champion (Didier Six, having moved from the warehouse of France); in another generation, Taffarel and Hadji played; the third has Drogba and Sneijder, and at the same time the warehouse is not without knowledge.
Already eighty Galatasaray could pull off such a feat as to reach the semifinals of the Champions Cup, knocking out Monaco in the process. Draw up, before speaking, not from behind the scenes, but from Mustafa Denizli - the only coach who has coached all three Turkish grandees. In the 1990s, with coach Rainer Hollmann, “Levy” scored three goals at Old Trafford and left Manchester United without a group in the Champions League - let the rest of the place in the group, but for us no less. Well, then a person appeared, like Galatasaray, having earned peace from eternity.
Turkish Emperor One of the eternal nourishments that Dynamo suffers: what would happen if Valery Lobanovsky did not fail his health at 63 years? Who could have created another command-darkness - who, however, began to show again the inconsistency of the new clock? What would happen if the person who was born all this time before for Jozsef Szabo would live until this day
The life of Fatiha Terima can show an approximate guideline for what you can invest in. An absolutely iconic figure within the framework of the club, and all over the world, he has come to the club many times in his life, he has taken a break, he has left the collection, he has added two plantings - and, perhaps, in the villio of the career he will not give. They smell, Terim and Lobanovsky, have a lot in common: they have lost a lot as footballers, they have gained too much as coaches, even authoritarian ones and, at that, geniuses as motivators. True, this immediately destroys the other nutrition: as if Valery Vasilyovich showed himself in these very Fiorentina and Milan? Ale about this other time.
Khocha Terim is the son of the modest Adan Demirspor, Galatasaray has played 11 seasons and won. just a couple of Cups. The infection seems impossible, but right now the “Lefts” allowed themselves to go on a 14-game streak without victories – and the reliable defender Terim, who returned to the national team (51 matches) without reaching the championship.
Well, I happened to become a coach, practice with another Turkish division - and fulfill the request. No, not from Galatasaray, but from the Turkish “youth”. Then she became a national team, and with her qualified for the first great tournament in 40 years (it was Euro 1996, and let’s face it, everyone lost there, the very fact that up to 16 of the smallest teams in Europe was lost for this Turechchina was blamed. Rashta - history.
A little more “yakbi”. Tsikavo, as if the history of football had been formed (whether Milan would not have had another UEFA Cup in the trophy museum, and Wenger would not have had a full-fledged, valid European Cup? ) yakbi Graeme Sunes was considered deprived of the title after TsIOGO?
The Liverpool legend turned out to be a weak coach. Vaughn and the great Liverpool of the 80s dropped to the bottom, and Newcastle, as a great team, finished off, and with Galatasaray in the nineties, taking third or fourth place. Ale in Istanbul Sunes on the table adopted the local culture, so that after winning the Turkish Cup, he took the title from the symbolism of the club and in front of the fans (half of whom were for Fenerbahce) built him in the center of the field. The Turkish epic includes a legend about the warrior Ustubatli, who was the first to build a Turkish ensign on the walls of Constantinople - and Sunes loved and priced at the club for a long time. Having come to announce the holy day of the 2023 championship, fate - and, of course, the ensign.
Then make such a gesture without throwing Sunes out of prison, and save the team from Terim. Several seasons have brought several championships. Galatasaray did not take them in a parade march at all - they won from the bitter struggle, but that has a lot to do with the fact that it became more and more insecure even in Europe.
Season 96/97 – “just” defeating PSG 4:2 in the Cup Winners' Cup; The team with Rai, Loko, Leonardo, and Anelka still won 4:0.. Season 97/98 – qualified for the Champions League, scored 4 points, but became the rest. Season 98/99 – we reached the group again, settled in another place with Juventus, Athletic, Rosenborg... And that’s all. The same rules apply: for six groups, the playoffs began in the quarterfinals, from the other groups only two teams reached the place, and the “lefts” didn’t have much left.
Fortunately for Terim, the rules for the new season were changed, and finally the third place made it possible to continue the European season: the UEFA Cup. Galatasaray was not spared in terms of the foal: Chelsea, Milan and Hertha, who were even more desperate at that time, fell, but Terim was able to bypass the “Rosoneri” (maybe that’s what they asked for) and simply by tearing the KUEFA folding net.
After Bologna, which fell to the Turks in 1/16 (also not a gift), they had Borussia Dortmund, Mallorca, Leeds and Arsenal. The strongest teams that showed themselves both in the top leagues and on the international level - for example, Mallorca, the “Lefts” simply defeated, 6:2 in total matches. With Dortmund, everyone was dominated by the shocking goals of Hadji and Shukur in the Westphalen (who, who, and the Turks certainly should not be afraid of loud stadiums), with Leeds they scored on the road, and at home they managed to win 2:0 - well, in the finals.
Terim not only brought the European Cup - he showed the whole country that it does not have to be afraid of introducing the strongest teams to the world. Among other things, only a few foreigners entered the final against Arsenal at the starting warehouse of the “Levits”: Taffarel, Hadji (who took away the red card), Popescu and Capone. In just two years, many of these graves will help Turechchyna win bronze medals at the world championship - to achieve something about which the country, which may not have shown its lovers at tournaments, is unlikely to. And in 2000, the team, without Terim and with Mircea Lucescu, beat Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup.
Having tried Terim from Serie A - not far away. Three more times turned and three times more. It happened differently, but even though the “Emperor” brought the championship; in European Cups, reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League, 2013. The contagion is working in the Saudi Arabian Al-Shababi, the uprising was taking place in Galatasaray for just three reasons – and, singly, we are not in a hurry to put a dot on these.
What at once?
Moreover, Terim is a participant in the biggest season in the history of “Lefts”. Season 21/22 Galatasaray finished 13th (! ) places in the table: finished, for the sake of justice, Guardioli’s rich assistant Torrent, who also became the “Emperor” himself. Ale club reacted at this point, turning immediately to the throne - and in whose place the man whose career he had dismissed. Evgen Seleznyov.
The Ukrainian himself helped win the Turkish Cup to Okan Buruk with his goals. This is one of the winners of that same UEFA Cup and bronze medalists of the Emergency Situations, who, however, began to work on the periphery. U 2013-18 rr. Buruk, having coached five different teams throughout the season, and who knows how much more he would have worked with outsiders and middle peasants, he could not win the Cup with Akhisar Belediyespor. Seleznyov alone Fenerbahce scored three goals, his role in this victory is simply great – and the axis of the Turkish Super Cup helped to win Akhisar without Buruk.
Okana goes first to Rizespor, then to Istanbul, and then to Galatasaray. With Istanbul, we won the only championship in the history of the club, with the “Lefts” - two titles in two seasons, and now we are clearly going for a third. Galatasaray may not lose a point to Fenerbahce, who are following them, having already accumulated a six-point lead.
For what kind of fantasies should Buruk not be offered: he can be credited with adapting the colors that make everything brighter. Torreira arrived in 2022, Icardi arrived in 2023 (more precisely, they bought out the contract), and Osimhen himself arrived. It’s all about the “middle class” of Davinson Sanchez, Hakim Ziyesh, Dries Mertens, Batshuayi – and, of course, the wonderful Turkish graves. Ziyesh, for example, doesn’t play, because Yunus Akgun has already scored five (! ) balls from Liza Europe, and from Superliza by dialing “6+7” for the “goal plus pass” system.
Seeing this, the stars of Galatasaray will make the grandfathers look younger. Okrim Musleri, who, apparently, has been here forever and ever, Mertens and one reserve goalkeeper in the club does not have a hot football player, a senior for 31 years. Ikardi made his debut for Galatasaray at 29 – with the assurance that the current stars play for a long time and the level of the championship could be insured for 8-9 seasons of Mauro in Istanbul. Davinson Sanchez was lured away from Tottenham from 27 players, Torreira from 26, and the club’s veterans are moving forward.
Competitors may have realized that the transfer of Osimhen to Ikardi will upset the balance of the club. Problems similar to Mbappe’s problems in Real Madrid could have been effectively avoided at any time (the home match with Kasimpasa ended with both goals scored, but with a 3:3 tie), but Icardi’s injury ruined that loan. Osimhena has 14 goals in 18 matches this season, he absolutely does not allow his partners to criticize him – and the team now looks ready for European Cup achievements.
To start the season, Muslera was given a red card, having taken away the Young Boys forward for hitting him, who so powerfully hit his goal. Of course, of course, the Uruguayan clearly wanted to play in the Champions League group again. Well, then now Galatasaray is one of the kings of the European League. The results again for Lobanovsky’s “visual model”: at home - only victories (not only PAOK and Elfsborg won, but also Tottenham), on the road - nothing (and here points were shared not only by Malmo and AZ, but.
Doctors, if the Turks finish the group stage in Amsterdam, then they need to get to the top 8 and direct entry to the 1/8 finals, try to collect stink points today. I wonder what Dynamo can do against these plans.
Author: Vitaly Pasichny.