Turgay SemercioÄŸlu
Turgay Semercioğlu ( born February 25, 1954 in Trabzon ) is a former Turkish football player and coach. He was also at times parallel to his football career as a basketball player active. Through his many years of service for Trabzonspor he is strongly associated with this club. Fan club page and he is regarded as one of the greatest players in the club's history. He was an important member of that team could be the first Anatolian team win the Turkish Cup and, together with Güngör Sahinkaya, Senol Güneş and Necati Özçağlayan to those four players who were also subsequently involved in all championship titles Trabzonspor. With 402 Erstligaeinsätzen for Trabzonspor he is. Mandıralı to Hami ( 468 inserts) the player with the second most Süper Lig inserts the club's history After his coaching career, he worked a few times as a football coach.
Playing career
Association
Semercioğlu began playing football in the street and then played in the school teams. He attended in his hometown of Trabzon, the Cumhuriyet İlkokulu primary school and then reached to the Trabzon Lisesi the high school and a high school. During this time he played in the school teams of these schools football and basketball. After high school he attended the Eğitim fakültesi to become a school teacher and began to play parallel studies in the regional amateur league for Trabzon Çimentospor. After graduating, he spent several weeks working as a teacher.
In the summer of 1973, it was an offer from the second division side Trabzonspor. This association has been six years earlier formed by the merger of several local clubs and had the intention with local talents to representieren the city Trabzonspor in the Süper Lig. Semercioğlu accepted the offer and thus ended his teaching career. Despite his young age, he was in the team a starting place. End of the season they reached the championship of the TFF 1 Lig and thus the long-awaited promotion to the Süper Lig
The first season in the top Turkish league was rather mixed for Semercioğlu and he completed 17 league games. On one hand, he made it into the Turkish national team, on the other hand he fell, in large part due to an injury, several games from. His team occupies the ninth place in the table. In the second Süper Lig season was achieved complete surprise the championship. Up to this season's big three Istanbul clubs Besiktas Istanbul, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray decided the championship of the Süper Lig among themselves. Although missed with Eskişehirspor another Anatolian club three times just the championship, but the ban remained. Only with Trabzonspor championship he has been solved. After this championship, you also dominated the next season the league and collected in addition to the championship and winning the Turkish Football Cup and the Turkish Super Cup all other trophies in the former Turkish football. Only in the season 1977/78 we awarded with one point difference in the championship Fenerbahçe, but could not get the other two cups. After this setback, we recovered relatively quickly and was again in the next three seasons Turkish soccer champions. Semercioğlu experienced in the summer of 1984 with the so far last championship Trabzonspor and was with 33 games one of the performers his team. After this season Trabzonspor was indeed always in the top third of the table, but you no longer managed to win the championship.
Semercioğlu ended his footballer career in the summer of 1988.
National
Semercioğlu played the first time for the Turkish national team in a qualifying European Football Championship in 1976 against the national team of the USSR. After this encounter, he was for several years a fixture in the national team. 26 of his 35 matches he graduated in succession away. After playing continuously until 1981, he was then no longer included six seasons with the nomination. It was not until March 1987 he was called as part of a friendly match against the Romanian national team in the squad and played in this encounter the last time for Turkey.
Coaching career
After ending his playing career Semercioğlu remained the football and Trabzonspor loyal and work from 1990 to 1997 as coach of the youth or reserve Mannschafte.
In the summer of 1998 he worked for the first man as head coach and took over the second division Şanlıurfaspor. After he was the expectations not just, he left the club.
For the summer of 2001 he again took over the reserve team Trabzonspor and coached them until the resignation of the head coach Samet Aybaba. Following the resignation Aybabas the vacant head coaching job Semercioğlu was offered this agreed and coached the team until February 2004., Where he declared after five games and three defeats in a row for his resignation. He was replaced by Ziya Doğan.
Since this last work, he is active as a talent scout and technical adviser for the Turkish Football Federation.
Achievements
- With Trabzonspor: Cup of TFF 1 Lig (1): 1973-1974
- Promotion to the Süper Lig (1): 1973-1974
- Turkish Master (6): 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984
- Turkish Cup winners ( 3): 1977, 1978, 1984
- Turkish Supercup (6): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983
- Başbakanlık Kupası (3): 1976, 1978, 1985