Raşit Çetiner

Raşit Çetiner ( born September 10, 1956 in Istanbul ) is a former Turkish football player and coach. Although he had previously played for arch-rivals Fenerbahce, he is strongly associated with its activity for Galatasaray with this club. From fan - club page and he is regarded as one of the greatest players in the club's history. He was part of the team in the 1986/87 season again won the Turkish championship after fourteen years of waiting. The followers called him to Galatasaray player times due to his selfless play Aslan Yürekli ( Eng.: The one with the Lion Heart) or lovingly Baba Raşit (German: Father Raşit ). After his active playing career he worked as a head coach and was responsible among other things for many years the Turkish U-21 national team.

• 3.1 As a player
• 3.2 As a coach

Playing career

Association

Çetiner came in 1956 in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul to the world and began the tradition İstanbulspor club with club football. Here he fell to the Turkish national team coaches and he was nominated in 1974 for the Turkish U-18 national team. In the same year he was accepted as the age of eighteen in the senior squad and on first attempt to jump into the starting eleven of the then second division. At season's end several first division were aware of the shooting star of the second division. Benefiting from the İstanbulspors descent into the then third highest league, the club had interest in mind leave Çetiner profitably.

The former first division Göztepe Izmir reacted quickest hired the youngster. In Göztepe he did not make it into the starting eleven, he replaced sporadically. After just one season he left Göztepe and joined the then second division side Kocaelispor. This club is Çetiner prevailed at first and became a key player. Although he was a defensive player and was usually used either in defense or defensive midfield in it fell on its goalscoring. Unusual at this time in Turkish football, he often took part in the offensive play of his team and was always at set-pieces in the penalty box. He scored in the season 1977/78 17 league goals and was, together with Ali Çağlar Göztepe scorer in the second ligament

This power output at Kocaelispor became one of the shooting stars of the season and dropped the big Istanbul clubs on. Of Fenerbahce reacted quickest and committed Çetiner the summer of 1978. During his first season at Fenerbahçe he found under coach Necdet NIS immediately a place in the starting eleven and was with his five goals in 30 league games of the top performers of his team. The season was finished on the third place and won the Turkish Football Cup. Thus Çetiner also reached his first title victory. The next season he was able to increase under new coach Ziya Şengül its performance further and had 13 goals as a defender of the most prolific player of his team. For the 1980/81 season, the German coach Friedel Rausch took over as coach at Fenerbahçe. After a very disappointing season, the club management decided a revision in the team to perform and sorted according to the directives of noise for several players from the summer of 1981. A similar audit was also carried out at Premier League rivals Galatasaray. Çetiner, who was among the players sorted out, moved in exchange for Erdoğan and Güngör Arıca Tekin to the Red - Yellow.

At Galatasaray enjoyed Çetiner immediately trust the English coach Brian Birch. In his first season for his new club, he won with the team the Turkish Football Cup and the Turkish Super Cup. Çetiner played two seasons under Birch and subsequently Özkan Sümer and Tomislav Ivić. With all three coaches the hoped for ten years, Turkish championship did not succeed. Çetiner worked during this time up at a service provider.

For the 1984/85 season the former Germany coach Jupp Derwall took over as coach at Galatasaray. This coach the club's management was intended to make a radical change in the team and form a team that could win the championship over einene hoped for longer period. Since Çetiner was considered for exemplary professional, he was kept by, outfitted in the team and for him and other erfahrere players to form a new team. The first season under Derwall took you a disappointing fifth place, but was able to win the Turkish Football Cup. In the second season, outfitted with the careful construction team was effective. Thus, because of the goal difference played a long time at the Turkish championship and missed it until the last round in points, but, . Against city rivals Beşiktaş Istanbul Çetiner completed in all 34 league games this season and contributed nine goals at this. In the 1986/87 season could win the long hoped Turkish championship after vierzehnjärigem waiting. Çetiner played through the first 21 league matches this season. In the game of 21 game against Samsunspor on March 28, 1987 Çetiners career took a dramatic turn. In a battle against the infamous for his very physical style of play Muzaffer Badalıoğlu that has already been done before already responsible for the career end of some player, he broke his leg. So he dropped out to the end of the season, but supported on all remaining Matches his team with crutches from the spare bank. Galatasaray secured the Turkish championship until the final day at the home game against then- nemesis Eskişehirspor. Legendary are the images after Spielabpfiff went through the press. In these pictures you saw Çetiner with crutches on the pitch storm to celebrate the championship won.

In the 1987/88 to Çetiner did not recover from his injury. He was not ready, but sat as team captain always on the bench. The coach office had a former teammate and assistant coach, outfitted, Mustafa Denizli taken. This was achieved with Galatasaray coach to defend the title. Since Çetiner announced the end of season end of his career, he was taken from Denizli in the game on the final day against Boluspor in the starting lineup. Çetiner played the first 17 ​​minutes and then said goodbye to the football stage.

National

Çetiner played for the first time for Turkish national teams during his time at İstanbulspor for the Turkish U-18 national team on October 19, 1974 in friends encounter against the Bulgarian U-18 national team. From then on he was one of the often nominated players of the U- 18th With the Turkish U-18 he took in 1975 at the UEFA youth tournament, the precursor of the U-18 Football Championship, and was part of the tournament in fourth place. With this performance we achieved the best result to date, a Turkish national team in a major tournament.

Between his playing for the U-18, he was nominated in April 1975 by the then coach of the Turkish national football team, Coşkun Özarı, as part of a test match against the national team of the USSR into the team line-up, but the game was sitting on the bench.

The end of 1976, he played the subsequent time for the Turkish U-21 national team. In between, he was nominated in September 1978 by the coach Metin Türel Turkish national football team, but sat in the friendly against Italy again on the substitutes' bench. A month later he made ​​his international debut during a test match against the national team of the USSR. Subsequently, he played in November 1978 under the new coach Sabri Kiraz still an encounter for the national team. Otherwise he played until the summer of 1979 for the Turkish U -21 and the next four years was not nominated.

With his move to Galatasaray, he increased his performances in the league and so fell the heads of the national teams. So the coach Coşkun Özarı nominated him in March 1983 for a friendly match against the Romanian national team. From then on he was two and a half years, injury-related failures are not considered to the players regularly used. He took the national team still on the qualifications of the European Football Championship 1984 qualification soccer World Cup 1986 in part, but failed to qualify his team for any of the tournaments. In some of his last matches he wore the captain's armband.

He made his last international match on October 16, 1985 during a World Cup qualifying game against the German National Team. After they had lost this game 5-0, a radical cut in the national team was formed and from then young players preferred.

Coaching career

For the second half of the 1992/93 season took Çetiner the first division side Gaziantepspor and worked the first time in his career as a head coach. At season's end, he left this club and took over the league rivals Altay Izmir. This club, he oversaw the next two and a half seasons.

Nine games before the end of the 1995/96 season, he took over the heavily relegation-threatened club Kayserispor and missed with this end of the season just in the league. The 1996/97 season he took over Çanakkale Dardanelspor and trained these long 16 game days.

Go to the top of the season 1997/98 he was introduced to the second division club Denizlispor as head coach. With this team, he played the entire season long with the ascension. At season's end, one was third in the table and so missed the promotion to the top Turkish league.

In 1998 he was nominated by his former teammates Mustafa Denizli, who was now coach of Turkey, as national coach of the Turkish U-21 national team and got this position. The Turkish U -21, he led the U -21 Football Championship in 2000 and thus created the first qualification of a Turkish U -21 to a U-21 Football Championship. A year later, he took to the Olympic team in Turkey, he also served as U-21 coach, at the Mediterranean Games and part occupied with his team to fourth place. The Turkish U -21, he supervised until the summer of 2005 and then left this post.

For the season 2004 /05 he was the coach of second division side Bursaspor. At season's end, he celebrated with this team the championship of the TFF 1 Lig and thus the direct promotion to the Süper Lig After he managed the club in the Süper Lig, he left after eleven games the club. He then trained in sequence Antalyaspor, Konyaspor and Çaykur Rizespor.

For the spring of 2010 he took over the Turkish U- 21 team one more time. After the Turkish national football team failed to qualify for the 2012 European Football Championship, appeared Çetiner back as the entire coaching staff of the national teams, from his office.

In March 2013 he took over at second division Şanlıurfaspor and replaced the former coach Bahri Kaya. On September 19, 2013 Çetiner resigned as manager of Şanlıurfaspor.

Achievements

As a player

• With Fenerbahce Turkish Cup Winner ( 1): 1979
• Başbakanlık Kupası ( 1): 1980
• TSYD Kupası (2): 1978-1979, 1979-1980, 1980-1981

• With Galatasaray Turkish Master (2): 1986/87, 1987/88
• Turkish Cup winners (2): 1982, 1985
• Turkish Supercup ( 3): 1982, 1987, 1988
• Başbakanlık Kupası (1): 1986
• TSYD Kupası ( 1): 1982

• With the Turkish U-18 National Team Semi-finalist in the UEFA youth tournament: 1975

• Individually Scorer of the TFF 1 Lig: In the season 1977/78 with 17 goals together with Ali Çağlar Göztepe Izmir.

As a coach

• With Bursaspor Cup of TFF 1 Lig: 2005/ 06
• Promotion to the Süper Lig: 2005/ 06

• With the Turkish U- 21 team Participation in the U -21 Football Championship: 2000

• With the Olympic selection Turkey: Semifinalist at the Mediterranean Games: 2001

Trivia

• Galatasaray organized since the opening of the new stadium Türk Telekom Arena, under the auspices of the main sponsor Türk Telekom, before every home game a thanksgiving for its legendary former player. So a thank you plaque for his many years of service and accomplishments was presented on 1 February 2012 during the League match against Antalyaspor Çetiner.