A Team

The Squad for Macedonia

Turkey will play Macedonia Wed Jun 11th for the Euro2004 qualifiers.

23 players got the call:

Galatasaray: Bülent Korkmaz, Ergün Penbe, Volkan Arslan
Beşiktaş: Sergen Yalçın, İbrahim Üzülmez, Ahmet Yıldırım
Blackburn Rovers FC: Tugay Kerimoğlu, Hakan Şükür
Fenerbahçe: Rüştü Reçber, Fatih Akyel
Internazionale Milano FC: Okan Buruk, Emre Belözoğlu
Real Sociedad San Sebastian: Tayfun Korkut, Nihat Kahveci
Trabzonspor: Fatih Tekke, Gökdeniz Karadeniz
Adanaspor: Murat Şahin
Aston Villa FC Birmingham: Alpay Özalan
Bursaspor: Okan Yılmaz
Denizli: Servet Çetin
Gaziantepspor: Ömer Çatkıç
Gençlerbirliği: Deniz Barış
Roda JC Kerkrade: Fatih Sonkaya
TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen: Yıldıray Baştürk

Note: Sergen Yalçın and Fatih Tekke were taken off the squads because of injury problems. Okan Buruk and Yıldıray Baştürk can't play because of card penalties. Servet Çetin and Fatih Sonkaya played for U-21 teams yesterday.

Turkey 3-2 Macedonia

Jun 11, 2003 BJK İnönü Stadium, İstanbul - Roberto Rosetti (ITA)

Turkey: Rüştü Reçber, Fatih Akyel, Alpay Özalan, Bülent Korkmaz, İbrahim Üzülmez, Tayfun Korkut, Tugay Kerimoğlu, Emre Belözoğlu, Ergün Penbe, Hakan Şükür, Nihat Kahveci
Macedonia: Milosevski, Bozinovski, Sedloski, Mitresvki, Vasoski, Grozdanovski, Šumulikoski, Jancevski, Lazarevski, Stojkov, Šakiri

15 MAC - Šumulikoski
24 0-1 Grozdanovski (A: Lazarevski)
27 1-1 Nihat Kahveci (A: İbrahim Üzülmez)
28 1-2 Šakiri (A: Stojkov)
32 TUR - Emre Belözoğlu
32 MAC - Sedlovski
43 TUR - Emre Belözoğlu out-Gökdeniz Karadeniz in

46 TUR - Korkut out-Okan Yılmaz in
47 2-2 Gökdeniz Karadeniz (A: Hakan Şükür)
52 MAC - Grozdanovski out-Nuhiji in
53 MAC - Bozinovski
60 3-2 Hakan Şükür (A: Nihat Kahveci)
69 MAC - Jancevski
72 MAC - Jancevski out-Stankovski in
76 MAC - Bozinovski out-Poleski in
78 TUR - Hakan Şükür out-Volkan Arslan in
82 MAC - Vasoski

Note: I hope you were not following the Turkey-Macedonia at UEFA Live-Broadcasts. They substituted defense player Deniz Barış instead of league's top scorer Okan Yilmaz and Arif Erdem instead of Volkan Arslan. The funniest thing Arif Erdem did not get a call to the national team this time. :-)