Sports in Turkey

Hey guys!

Today I'm going to show you which sports we do.

My friends and I love handball because of our school's handball team. Yaşar is our pivot (he made me write this). And Berkay, Berker, İlhan, Muratcan, Orhan, Özkan also play handball. AND Ahmet is best  football player in my classroom. The most important thing of all, Galtasaray SK won the league. So I'm writing this text today for the sake of Galatasaray.

  ( Mario plays baketball, too)   

Anyway, we made this video to teach you sports in Turkey (It is very funny :))

And after watching this video, if you want to learn more, please read encyclopedic information :

Football

  Turkey has risen to prominence in a number of sporting areas in recent decades. Football has seen a rapid transformation earning it third place in the coveted 2002 FIFA World Cup. Its domestic teams are dominated by Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray. Of these, Fenerbahçe's European triumph came in the now defunct 1967 Balkans Cup. Galatasaray has seen the most success, winning the 2000 UEFA Cup and European Super Cup, as well as fielding many of the players for the international team. In recent years, Turkey has exported many of its players into top foreign teams, including Internazionale, FC Barcelona, Parma, Milan, and Bayern Munich, among others. As well as sending players abroad, the Turkish league has also attracted players into Turkey. World class players such as Pierre van Hooijdonk, Mário Jardel, Nicolas Anelka, John Carew, Milan Baroš, Radomir Antić, Óscar Córdoba, Lincoln, Mateja Kežman, Kleberson, Roberto Carlos, Zoran Simović, Frank de Boer, Giovani dos Santos, Franck Ribéry, Harry Kewell, Dani Güiza, Guti, Quaresma, Gheorghe Hagi, Jô, Abdul Kader Keita, Shabani Nonda, Lucas Neill, Lorik Cana, Giga Popescu, Jérôme Rothen and many more have played at some point or continue to play in Turkey.

Basketball

   Basketball is also gaining popularity in Turkey. Turkey came second in European Basketball Championship in 2001 in Istanbul. Turkey also came ninth in the 2002 FIBA World Championship. Four Turkish nationals, Ersan İlyasova, Hedo Türkoğlu, Mehmet Okur, and Semih Erden, have achieved success in the prestigious National Basketball Association of North America, generally considered the world's top basketball league. Turkey's greatest success in international basketball came when it hosted the 2010 FIBA World Championship, finishing second to the USA. Türkoğlu captained the side and made the all-tournament team. Turkey also advanced to the quarter-finals in the 2006 FIBA World Championship, achieving a non-expected sixth place. Turkey_women's_national_basketball_team won silver medal in EuroBasket_Women in 2011. Galatasaray Medical Park (women's basketball) have won gold medal in FIBA EuroCup 2008-09 season and bronze medal in 2007-08 season also was runner up in 2009 FIBA European SuperCup Women .

Volleyball

Especially women's volleyball is a popular sport in Turkey. Recently Turkey national women's volleyball team secured 6th place in FIVB Women's World Championship at 2010 in Japan and won a bronze medal in FIVB Women's European Championship at 2011 in Serbia. Turkey's top women's volleyball team is Vakıfbank Türk Telekom which have won silver medal in FIVB Club World Championship at 2011 in Doha, gold medal in CEV Champions League in 2010-2011 season and gold medal in both Challenge Cup and Women's Top Volley International in 2007-2008 season. Another prominent Turkish women's volleyball club is Fenerbahçe which have won gold medal in FIVB Club World Championship in 2010, silver medal in CEV Champions League in 2009-2010 season and bronze medal in CEV Champions League 2010-2011 season.

Athletics

Athletics is another fast improving sport. Süreyya Ayhan set the 1500m world record in 2003 and Elvan Abeylegesse set a new 5000m record in 2004. In 2010 European Athletics Championships Alemitu Bekele and Elvan Abeylegesse won gold and silver medals respectively in Women's 5000 metres and Elvan Abeylegesse also won gold medal in Women's 10000 metres. Nevin Yanıt won first European Championship in a sprint race for Turkey by winning gold in Women's 100 metres hurdles. In 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships Kemal Koyuncu won silver in Men's 1500 metres and Halil Akkas won bronze in Men's 3000 metres.

Handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team with the most goals scored wins.

Modern handball is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball and Czech handball and beach handball.

The game is quite fast and includes body contact as the defenders try to stop the attackers from approaching the goal. Contact is only allowed when the defensive player is completely in front of the offensive player, i.e. between the offensive player and the goal.

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PREPARED BY SEE - Sinan Erdem Erdi