Galatasaray 1905

GALATASARAY S.K. The name of our club! The name of the first ever Turkish football club!

Galatasaray was founded in 1905 by a group of football enthusiast students of Galatasaray Lycee. Their names include Ali Sami Yen, Asim Tevfik Sonumut, Reşat Şirvani, Cevdet Kalpakçıoğlu, Abidin Daver and Kamil among others. Ali Sami Yen was the first ever president of the club! The name of our old Stadium!

We have accomplished many victories along the road to 2011! Millions of fans worldwide that have experienced the joy, the happiness, the greatness that this club has brought us! For many it is love!

Which supporter can not remember those glorious years? The years of Fatih Terim, Hakan Sukur, Hagi, Taffarel and so on. The years where we have cried out of love, cried out of joy!

Now we are in 2011! We have experienced a season without the Galatasaray Spirit, a season that our board of directors have made destructive decisions and the season has come to an end!

The board has changed with the coming of ''president'' Unal Aysal whom promises us a season full of succes!
He brought back Fatih Terim which is the most logical, respected and smart decision considering how our team crumbled into little pieces! Any other coach would be to unfamiliar with the team and I can not imagine which way it would go from there.

Ofcourse does this mean that with the arrival of Fatih Terim the team will go back to its glorious years where we have won the UEFA Cup in 2000? Well it certainly has influenced a lot of great decision of great players such as Arda Turan to stay and Selcuk Inan to come, We should'nt be all to excited though! We know Fatih Terim has achieved amazing successes e.g. UEFA EURO 2008, but the team is in  a condition that it will take some time to heal!

I, as a Gatasaray Supporter will write this blog expressing my passion for our team's football and will share weekly updates about our matches for the upcoming season!

Lets bring back that 2000 Spirit!