Features news coverage of Turkey and its players, including match reports and general football news.
German coach Joachim Low is grinning. He will face Turkey in the semi-final of the Euro’s, not Croatia. Turkey pounced on a strong Croatia team to steal victory in miraculous fashion. Croatia thought they had won, but the last play …
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Croatia (Klasnic 119) 1-1 Turkey (Senturk 120) Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna Quarterfinals, Euro 2008 Friday 20 June 2008 Kickoff: 20:45 CET, 14:45 EST It was, to contradict the old cliché, a game of three halves. A match which started brightly, …
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16 matches gone, 15 more to go. After the agonisingly long qualification process, the tournament itself feels brutally short – then again, that’s probably what makes up most of the excitement at this level, the fact that every match is …
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Portugal (Pepe 61, Raul Meireles 90) 2-0 Turkey Stade de Geneve, Geneva 7 June 2008 Kick-off: 20:45 CET A goal from defender Pepe lifted Portugal to a deserved 2-0 victory over Turkey in their Euro 2008 Group A opener on …
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Euro 2008 warm-ups are wrapping up, as the countdown to the start of the competition is inside the six-day mark. No one wants to enter the tournament on the wrong foot, but a few teams didn’t make positive impressions in …
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With a week to go before Euro 2008 starts, the 16 participants are busy with their final tune-ups before next weekend. Some teams look to be on firmer ground than others as they go through their final warm-up matches and …
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Four years ago, Dan Leo told me about a new ranking system. At least, it was new to me. Like most of us, I had grown accustomed to the monthly FIFA rankings. Those rankings were quoted by the media and …
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Euro 2008 features 16 teams with each consisting of a squad of 23 players (with 3 goalkeepers). The final squads were submitted on 28 May 2008 and the teams will kick off Euro 2008 on 7 June 08. Here’s a …
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Turkey qualified for Euro 2008 thanks to a 1-0 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the last qualifying match in November 2007. With 24 points, Turkey scraped past Norway — a single point behind them — to get the second Group C …
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