At the ceremony held at Hasan Doğan’s national team camp and training facilities in Riva, prizes were presented to the winners in 5 categories.
TFF President Mehmet Büyükekşi, TFF Board Members, National Head Coach Stefan Kuntz, Trabzonspor Club President Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Sivasspor Club President Mecnun Otyakmaz, Konyaspor Club President Fatih Özgökçen, Ümraniyespor president Tarık Aksar, Trabzonspor coach Abdullah Avcı, Sivasspor coach Rıza Çalımbay and Kayserispor coach Playmaker Çağdaş Atan and National A players attended.
Speaking at the awards ceremony, Mehmet Büyükekşi began his speech by expressing his condolences to those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack on Beyoğlu Istiklal Street yesterday and wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.
Stressing the importance of fair play in football, Büyükekşi said, “The duty of the amateur to the professional, the presidents of all football clubs, coaches, coaches, footballers and even fans is to follow the rules of the game within the framework of fair play, which is the universal concept that beautifies the sport for one’s own teams, as in all areas of life, and act towards the opposing team.
In football, which has become one of the biggest industries in the world, managers, coaches and players must not forget that they are role models for millions of people, especially children and young people. Above all our children need to have strong values that they will grow up with. Football, as a team sport, allows them to understand how necessary discipline, respect, team spirit and fair play are in the game and in life. In this regard, it is very important that all football stakeholders display behaviors and speeches that will set an example for our children and young people both on and off the pitch.
“To create a contemporary football culture, we must accept tolerance, peace and brotherhood as the most important values in football.” Mehmet Büyükekşi, who used his own words, said, “As a federation that thinks fair-play has a very important place in both developing and beautifying our football and increasing the brand value of our football, we have aimed to reward the names in our league who act in accordance with these principles and to present them as role models for football fans. As a federation, we want to set the right role models for the public, the football family, especially our children and youth, setting an example and praising the good.” he said.
Stating that the Fair Play and Social Responsibility Board has started to determine the names worthy of the Spor Toto Super League Fair Play/Fair Game award in 5 categories according to important criteria at regular intervals, Büyükekşi said, “Following the evaluation of the first 8 weeks of our championship, the first Fair Play/Fair Game of the season. As a federation, we want to encourage football players, coaches, clubs, club presidents and fans of the football family to play fair by rewarding the prize winners both morally that financially.
I hope the quality and brand value of our football will increase by developing the fair play spirit of competition on the pitch. In the coming weeks of the season, it is my great wish that the number of names exhibiting the behaviors that will be nominated for the Fair Play/Fair Game award will increase and that our Fair Play and Social Responsibility Committee will have difficulty choosing which name to assign due of the large number of candidates.”
The TFF president added that from now on the referees will shake hands with both coaches and wish success before matches.
The winners of the TFF Fair Play awards are as follows:
Fair Play/Fair Play Team Award: Demir Grup Sivasspor
Fair Play/Fair Play Coach Award: Contemporary Ratan (Yukatel Kayserispor)
Fair Play/Fair Play Player Award: Ugurcan Cakir (Trabzonspor)
Fair Play/Fair Play President/Coach Award: Fatih Ozgokcen (Arabam with Konyaspor)
Fan Fair Play/Fair Play Award: Medipol Basaksehir
EXPLANATIONS FROM UĞURCAN ÇAKIR
Trabzonspor captain Uğurcan Çakır, who received the award from TFF president Mehmet Büyükekşi, said, “We have been playing to win since our childhood, but we must be aware of the values that make us who we are. Our loyalty and respect for each other is very important to me. I am happy and proud of this award. It will be the most important award I can leave to my son.” he said.
Ahmet Ağaoğlu, the president of the Bordeaux club, who took the stage with Uğurcan Çakır and Trabzonspor technical director Abdullah Avcı, said:
“There is something I always want to underline. Respect for the opponent, the pitch, the player and the fans. Above all, if an athlete respects himself, he becomes watchable on any pitch. You can be a world star, but you need more to be an athlete Mustafa As Kemal Atatürk said, ‘Athlete, intelligent, agile and moral.’ Actually, we all come here. I congratulate Uğurcan. We grew up together. He Was the 3rd goalkeeper when I arrived. He Was an exemplary athlete. I thank the president of TFF for organizing this significant awards ceremony.”
Cagdas Atan, who received the TFF Fair Play/Fair Game Coach Award from TFF President Mehmet Büyükekşi and A national team coach Stefan Kuntz, said, “It’s very good to be here, it’s very special. Football is a game very nice, I also love football.” As coaches, we are part of this game. Our responsibility is to improve the game and the players we work with. I also work hard for this purpose. We will be happy if we contribute a little to Turkish football in this direction. From now on, we will continue to think and work on football for this cause.” This award also created awareness. I’m not a coach who talks about referees, I only spoke after the Trabzonspor match, I think we won’t talk about it again” . he used the phrases
Stefan Kuntz, on the other hand, said he was very upset by the terrorist attacks that took place yesterday and said: “I’m not 100% Turkish, I speak a little German. At first we received many calls from our environment about yesterday’s events and they expressed their condolences. I want to say this on behalf of my country. Turkish” I was wondering the meaning of the name Çağdaş. It is very good that modern movements are made by Çağdaş Bey”. Our Çağdaş teacher’s behavior and actions are like those of the highest level of football in contemporary nations. Most of the teachers are now evaluated with these attitudes and behaviors “His receipt of this award is Turkish football and Turkish football. It is an important issue for our league.” made the assessment of him.
Mecnun Otyakmaz, who took the stage on behalf of Demir Grup Sivasspor, who received the team award, said, “We want to shout that we condemn terrorism on behalf of Sivasspor. Condolences to our nation. Sivas is a beautiful city for football. We show hospitality to everyone who comes to Sivas. It made us very happy that this was appreciated.” he said.
Award-winning Konyaspor President Fatih Özgökçen said, “Yesterday we had a sad event. I want to convey our sorrows. We are trying to do the job better with such awards. We are making an effort to improve this work. We just need to reflect the beauty of football on the pitch. Thank you all.” he used the phrases
Sivasspor head coach Rıza Çalımbay made the following comments:
“Congratulations to all of us. It was a bad day. I congratulate our federation president. We, as coaches, do our job going through many difficulties. Sometimes we get good reactions, sometimes we get negative reactions. Everyone in football needs to respect each other. Sometimes things happen that we don’t want, but we have to finish well. We must not lose respect. We are a modest team. We went to Europe for three years in a row. We completed the group as leaders, we will make a better finish, we play our matches as if we were playing a national match in Europe.”
