Talk:Football in Turkey

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Popularity of Turkish teams was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 26 April 2012 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Football in Turkey. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Names[edit]

Can someone describe the name situation for Turkish footballers? Category:Turkish footballers is sorted by last name, while the templates in Category:Turkish football squad templates include only first names. Also, Arda Turan is listed before Nihat Kahveci on UEFA Euro 2008#Goalscorers, although their last names are included (unlike the players with Brazilian-style "stage names"). -- Jao (talk) 21:03, 18 June 2008 (UTC) Can we still have a List of Turkish Fottballers - why has it been redirected? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jujuju222 (talk • contribs) 18:50, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is very common and popular in Turkey to call the football players by their first names, although this habit is gradually changing. F.E. When two players with the same name existed -especially in the same team- we used to call the older one with the first name preceded by the word "büyük (older)" and the younger one "küçük (younger)". Nowadays we call each one of those same-name players with their respective surname: "Emre Așık passes the ball to Emre Belözoğlu" or "Mehmet Topal passes the ball to Mehmet Balta" etc. What we don't do, except for foreigners playing in Turkish teams, is to call a player with his/her family name --E4024 (talk) 23:04, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Photo[edit]

Why not add a photo of Lefter, our legendary player, who passed away recently. I will also tell fellow Turkish WP users to add a National Team photo. --E4024 (talk) 11:10, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]