Football in Turkey

So it sounds like an interesting rivalry outside of the big three.

So, yeah, that seems like a game worth getting to either at Fenerbahce or at

Trabzonspor.

I mean, there was a time where the Trabzonspor-Fenerbahce games in Trabzon wouldn't end because all the fans would attack players and Fenerbahce would win 3-0.

There was a three-year period where none of the away games we played at Trabzon

concluded.

There's a bit of a stereotype in England about Turkish football and Galatasaray and their welcome to hell banners.

when Manchester United played there.

So, yeah, it sounds like a very, very spicy, very, very deep kind of thing you'd see in Argentina.

OK, so are there any other clubs in Turkey that are of importance to the football culture there?

Yes, so there is Bursaspor who won the league in 2010 and then they were relegated to the fourth division of Turkish football.

Now they're in the second division and probably they're going to get promoted this year because they have the best squad in the second division.

so bursa sport is the only team that was the only team that won the league outside of the big three and sub zone scores in 2010 and obviously they won it against fenerbahce in a dramatic game um and there's also basakshir which is the sixth team to win the league That's basically the team representing the municipality of Istanbul.

Then they became an independent club.

They had a lot of investments and they had like very world-class players playing for them.

And they won the league in 2020, I believe.

I mean, I think there are the clubs worth noting.

There's also like I would like to mention Göztepe.

That's a club from Izmir, one of the big cities of Turkey.

The reason I want to mention them is they're also adopting a very good model.

I think they were bought by foreign investment and they're using this, you know, money ball principles with like stat driven transfers and signings.

I think they're doing very good business right now.

Like a lot of the players, they buy for cheap and then they can sell them to Europe.

I think their last huge signing was Romulo to Red Bull Leipzig.

And I think they're finding very good players.