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The milestones of Turkish football 1950-1960 were as follows: the professional football leagues in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir formed, the number of clubs in other cities has increased rapidly, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe scored Göztepe successful results in European cups and foreign players started to Turkish clubs to play. In 1962, says UEFA’s full membership of Turkey.
The Turkish Football Federation starts to “Turkish Cup” in the season 1962-1963 to arrange for the Turkish clubs to qualify for the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup. In addition, in 1967 the 20thEuropean U-21 football was from Turkey. The 1970s brought a number of important changes in Turkey and the world alike. One of the most striking of these changes was that an increasing number of Turkish clubs started to employ foreign coaches. Brian Birch of England and Didi of Brazil performed successfully with the teams they coached in the Turkish first division. In the same period, the Turkish national team to cut bad while Turkish clubs were never satifactory in the European cups.
During this period, many Yugoslavian players in our leagues until the 1990s played. The 1970s witnessed an “Anatolian Revolution” in Turkish football. Trabzonspor reached the championship in their second year in the Turkish league, which they were promoted in 1974. Trabzonspor scored a total of six league championships in a short time and played a leading role in the spread of football throughout Anatolia.
In the 1980s, although the concept does for club management, we have no substantial change in the level of football played witness, except a few successful results. But with the arrival of Jupp Derwall, the Galatasaray play in a football team with a particular system is transformed, in Turkey was one of the indicators that show that something was about to change. The first of these indicators was that Galatasaray, which then by Mustafa Denizli, who served as assistant coach Derwall during the period was played in the semifinals of the European Champions Cup in the late 1980s trained. At the same time? Enes Erzik was president of the Turkish Football Federation with the support of Turgut Özal, the then appointed Prime Minister of Turkey, in 1989 and? Enes Erzik was a milestone in Turkish football history have been. During his presidency insfrastructural priority and more systematic training programs were given conditions have been created. Turkish soccer has made a number of initiatives and decisions in the revolutionary 1990s. In 1990 was elected by the UEFA Congress on Erzik, UEFA’s Executive Committee as the first Turkish delegate, and later as Vice-Chairman of two important committees appointed.All the infrastructural investments in 1992 and paid our U-19 national team achieved their first European title. The successful results achieved in 1994 and 2005 European Championships as will demonstrated in the following years, that was the first European title is not achieved by chance.
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