Şenol Çorlu

Senol Çorlu ( born December 3, 1961 in Ankara ) is a former Turkish football player and coach. Through his many years of service for Fenerbahce he is very strongly associated with this clubs. From fan - club sides and he is regarded as one of the greatest players in the club's history. With 207 Erstligaeinsätzen for Fenerbahçe he is the player with the fourteenth most common Süper Lig inserts the club's history. Furthermore, he is with his 51 Erstligatoren zwölfterfolgreichste the scorer of the club.

After the summer of 1988 moved from Trabzonspor Senol Ustaömer to Fenerbahçe, Çorlu was henceforth as Büyük Senol ( Engl.: The big Senol ) refers. At that time it was in Turkish football customary to name the footballer only by their first names. The older the player was referred to as the Great and the younger than the little one. In order to distinguish Çorlu of Ustaömer, the younger Ustaömer as Senol Kucuk was ( Engl.: The little Senol ).

Playing career

Clubs

Çorlu began with the club football in the youth department of the capital club Petrol Ofisi SK, the sports team of the state oil production company. Here he was promoted to the senior squad in the second half of the 1970s. After the club in the summer of 1979, missed the league in 3 Türkiye Futbol Ligi and had to descend into the regional amateur league, Çorlu left the club towards Erstligist Orduspor. Even with the new environment and his young age, where he quickly captured a permanent place alongside and climbed on to the U-21 national team. After Orduspor the summer of 1981, surprisingly missed the league and were relegated to the second league, Çorlu also left this club and hired the Erstliganeuling Sakaryaspor. This association had managed with some seasoned players like Coşkun Demirbakan, Turgay İnal, Zafer Göncüler and many young players in the summer of 1981 to ascend it for the first time in his career in the first Lig. In the teams at that time were young and then unknown players like Nezihi Tosuncuk, Oğuz Çetin Kaya Bahri, Aykut Yiğit together that should be all too important later figures in Turkish football. In this environment, the team finished the game season 1981/82 on the 5th place in the table and became the surprise team of the season. Thus, the team reached the best Erstligaplatzierung their history. Çorlu formed with Bahri Kaya, Aykut Yiğit and Tuna Güneysu the Sturmabteilung his team and went with his performances on the A-National player. In the next two seasons he established himself more and more to the service providers, so that he became the most sought after youngsters in the league.

In the summer of 1984 Çorlu joined the Istanbul giants Fenerbahce SK. Here he established himself at first -team regular and made his Strumpartnern Ilyas Tüfekçi, Selçuk Yula and Dušan Pešić a successful assault team. At the end of the season the team finished tied for Beşiktaş Istanbul the season on goal difference as champion. It was also won this season of the Presidents Cup and the Navy Cup. The following season was a disappointing one for Fenerbahçe. The only bright spot, the team was able to record in the European Cup of Champions. Here they met the reigning French champions Girondins Bordeaux. At this time, the relationship between Turkey and France was very tense because of the attacks of the terrorist organization Asala. Furthermore, the Turkish teams eliminated without exception in the European club cup competitions in the first round. Under these circumstances, Bordeaux was touted as a big favorite. In the first game, which was played in Bordeaux, Fenerbahçe won in a thrilling game entirely surprising 3-2. Çorlu was one of the best players in the game and scored the crucial 2-1 scorer for his team, which was the 50th goal Fenerbahçe in the European club cup competitions. The return game in which a goal Çorlus was not recognized, ended in a 0-0 draw. As a result, Fenerbahçe sat in this explosive encounter surprising against Bordeaux by and was so enthusiastically received in the home. Because before this season, the striker Srebrenko Repčić left the club, Yula turned out due to injury and Tüfekçi plagued form weaknesses, Çorlu was used as a center forward. In this role, he scored 14 goals in the league and was by far the top scorer of his team. The next two seasons missed Çorlus team the championship.

For the new season the master trainers for the season 1984/85 was committed with Todor Veselinović. In addition, the club engaged with the German goalkeeper Tony Schumacher an international star. Furthermore, the club's management continued to invest in the team and committed with Senol Ustaömer, Oğuz Çetin, Aykut Kocaman, Turhan Sofuoglu, vizier Hasan, Hakan Tecimer and Orhan Kapucu Stars or important youngsters of that time. With this team Fenerbahçe played a great season. The season ended with ten points ahead of second-placed Galatasaray. In addition, the team scored 103 goals throughout the season, and thus earned a new scoring record Süper Lig This team emerged as champion team with 103 goals in the club annals. Çorlu lost relatively quickly his place at the three strikers Ridvan Dilmen, Kocaman and vizier, and came to the end of the season to only 17 league bets. After the next season vizier was changed surprisingly to arch-rivals Galatasaray and Dilmen failed long injury, Çorlu got back to first-team regular. He trained with Kocaman and Erdi Demir the storm sines association. With 18 goals in 32 league games, he was the top scorer of his and experienced the highest-scoring season of his career. His team was behind the archrival Beşiktaş runner-up. The next game OPENING HOURS it failed to repeat his last year's performance Çorlu. Although he remained over extended ranges and regular players, but had to give way to the fit-again Dilmen in some games. After two unsuccessful years, the club undertook the summer from arch-rivals Galatasaray striker Star Tanju Çolak and loving the Brazilian Gérson Caçapa from. The new coach Jozef Vengloš decided by storm for the players Kocaman, Çolak, Vokrri and Caçapa. So Çorlu came to only two mandatory bets until the winter break.

During the winter break of the season 1991/92 finally Çorlu was loaned to second division side Antalyaspor. In March 1992, he was then brought back even within the same season. With a farewell game in which Fenerbahçe and Trabzonspor came together, he finally ended his playing career in the summer of 1992.

National

Çorlu National team career began in his time at Petrol Ofisi SK. Here he was the person in charge of the Turkish U-18 National Team on the nominated him in the squad for an upcoming test match. So was Çorlu against the U-18 Poland his general international debut. After this debut Çorlu played two more times for the Turkish U-18 selection.

In April 1981, he was then nominated for the first time in the squad of the Turkish U-21 national team and played in the game against the Czechoslovak U- 21 team for the first time for the U -21 in his country. By the year 1984, he graduated from nine other U-21 inserts. In most of these games, however Çorlu was over 21 years old.

In 1981 he was appointed by the acting coach Fethi Demircan in the squad of the Turkish national team and was in the EM1982 - qualifying match against the national team of the USSR his senior international debut. By the spring of 1986 Birant came to 14 additional international duty.

Coaching career

One year after the end of his career started Çorlu his coaching career by starting to work at Fenerbahce as youth coach. After about two years he took in November 1995 at Karagümrük SK the post of assistant coach at. Two months later, he inherited the head coach and assisted in this function the club until the end of the season. In October of the same year he took over Beylerbeyi SK. This association, however, he was responsible for only two weeks. After a brief co-trainer activities in Canakkale Dardanelspor he coached the series, the clubs Edirnespor, Aydinspor and Malatyaspor as head coach.

In the season 1999/2000 he took over Fenerbahce the co- coaching job and assisted his former teammates Ridvan Dilmen. This had to this time, no coaching license, which is why Çorlu was formally led as head coach. After Dilmen already end of September 1999 resigned from his post, even Çorlu left the club in October.

Çorlu trained by the club Fenerbahçe SK and Konya SRs Endüstri Sapanca Gençlikspor as head coach. In 2006 he began working as a youth coach again at Fenerbahçe. Later he was promoted to coordinator of the entire youth department.

Achievements

• Table fifth in the Süper Lig: 1981/82

• Turkish Cup: 1984/85, 1988/89
• Presidents Cup players: 1984/85, 1989/90
• Prime Minister Cup Winners: 1988/89
• Marine Cup Winners: 1984/85
• TSYD - Istanbul Cup Winners: 1985/86, 1986/87