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Super LeagueThe excitement of the new season begins slowly in . While the teams continue their transfer work, they also make an effort to enter the new season in the best way with camps and friendly matches.
DOMESTIC DOMINATION IN TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ELECTIONS
The Super League, which was played with 20 teams last season, will be played with 19 teams this season. 15 of these 19 teams preferred the local coach in the new season. Fenerbahçe (Jorge Jesus), Alanyaspor (Francesco Farioli), Fatih Karagümrük (Andrea Pirlo), Adana Demirspor (Vincenzo Montella) are the teams that will start the new season with a foreign coach.
to last season Fatih Terim Galatasaray, which started with Domenec Torrent and ended the season with Domenec Torrent, returned to the locals again by bringing one of the legendary football players Okan Buruk to the team. Fenerbahce, which started the season with Vitor Pereira and then successfully completed the season with İsmail Kartal, signed an agreement with world-famous coach Jorge Jesus.
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Fatih Karagümrük, who parted ways with Volkan Demirel at the end of the season, made a name for himself by putting Andrea Pirlo in charge of the team.
FIRST SEASON WITHOUT THE “BIG SIX”
A remarkable detail emerged after the teams completed their coaching choices and started their preparations for the new season. Fatih Terim, the important coaches of Turkish football history, Senol Gunes, Mustafa Denizli, Ersun Lateral, Aykut Kocaman ve Sergen Yalcin As of the beginning of the season, the team will not be coaching.
This will be the first time since the 1987/88 season, when Mustafa Denizli and Fatih Terim became coaches. Mustafa Denizli started to work as a coach in Galatasaray that season, while Fatih Terim took over Ankaragücü in the 4th week of the season. In the same season, Şenol Güneş started to work as an assistant coach at Trabzonspor.
That year, Ersun Yanal, Aykut Kocaman and Sergen Yalçın were continuing their football careers.
While the 6 names in question were coaching at the same time, at least one of them entered the new season at the head of a team. The 2022/23 season will be the first season where at least one of these 6 names does not coach a team.
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WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
Mustafa Denizli
Mustafa Denizli, who entered the last season at the beginning of Altay, did not coach a team after leaving the team he is a legend. At the end of the season, although his name was changed to the presidency of Altay, there was no development in this regard. Such a project has not been announced yet for Denizli, who was a commentator on television channels before.
Fatih Terim
Fatih Terim, who left Galatasaray in December, became silent after that date. Terim, who was invited to speak many times during the election period by former president Burak Elmas, neither voted nor made a statement in the presidential election. He responded to Burak Elmas’s statements through journalists. On Exxen screens Champions League Commenting on the final, Terim posed with his former football players at the wedding of Oğulcan Çağlayan.
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Senol Gunes
After the failure of EURO 2020 National teamŞenol Güneş, who was dismissed from his position in , has not coached a team since that day. Güneş, whose name was mentioned for Trabzonspor before Abdullah Avcı, occasionally makes statements about the Turkish football agenda.
Ersun Lateral
Ersun Yanal, who entered the last season as the head of Antalyaspor, left his job in October 2021. The second term of Yanal, who had previously had successful seasons in Denizlispor and Gençlerbirliği and won a historical championship in Fenerbahçe, did not go as he wanted and the roads were separated. Yanal, who could not find success with Antalyaspor, enters the season without a club. The experienced technical man has been sharing his views on social media, which he thinks will be a breakthrough in Turkish football.
Aykut Kocaman
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Aykut Kocaman, who was the head of Başakşehir last season, left the team in October 2021 and Emre Belözoğlu took over. Aykut Kocaman has not coached any team since that day. Denying the news that he would be a commentator for the broadcasting organization, Kocaman was seen at the dinner events organized by Aziz Yıldırım, the ex-president of Fenerbahçe.
Sergen Yalcin
Besiktas Sergen Yalçın, who had a historical championship with the team, but left the team after bad results in both the league and the Champions League last season, is another name who will not coach the team in the new season. There were news that Sergen Yalçın would be the coach of Hull City, which Acun Ilıcalı bought, but Ilıcalı entrusted the team to Şota Arveladze. Finally, it has been announced that Sergen Yalçın will be one of the 8 guests in the series ‘Unforgettable’ to be broadcast on Kafa TV.
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TOTAL 16 CHAMPIONSHIPS
66 seasons have passed in our league, which started in 1959 with the name of the Turkish 1st League and later renamed the Süper Lig. Since the 1987/88 season, when at least one of these 6 players coached the team, 36 seasons have been played. Fatih Terim (8), Mustafa Denizli(3), Şenol Güneş(2), Aykut Kocaman(1), Ersun Yanal(1) and Sergen Yalçın(1) became champions for a total of 16 times.
TEAMS LOOK AT YOUNG TEACHERS
In this period, when the biggest coaches of Turkish football are clubless, it is seen that the Super League clubs turn to young coaches.
Emre Belözoğlu(41) in Başakşehir, Farioli(33) in Alanyaspor, Nuri Şahin(33) in Antalyaspor, Serkan Özbalta(43) in Hatayspor, Andrea Pirlo(43) in Fatih Karagümrük, Çağdaş Atan in Kayserispor Young coaches such as (42), Sami Uğurlu (44) in Kasımpaşa, Osman Zeki Korkmaz (40) in Ankaragücü and İlhan Palut (45) in Konyaspor are on duty.
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