Turkey Football World Cup: Turkey looking for new legends to recover past glories

 

The big question in Turkish football this week is their national side set to return to the world stage after a 20-year absence? The early signs are surely promising after the Crescent Stars kicked off their qualifying campaign for the Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022 with two wins from two to lead the way in a violently modest Group G.­­

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Pitted against three-time World Cup runners-up the Netherlands in their opening game at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey threw down the gauntlet with a 4-2 win over a strong Oranje side. Three days later, Senol Gunes’ side underlined their Qatar Football World Cup 2022 credentials with a resounding 3-0 win away to Norway, another of the group’s fancied sides. That victory was especially significant as Turkey had never before won their opening two matches in a Football World Cup qualifying campaign. F

Ahead of the team’s third fixture at home to Latvia tomorrow (Tuesday 30 March), hopes of a third Football World Cup appearance and first in 20 years are reasonably high among the nation’s famously passionate football fans. For More to know about Qatar Football World Cup Tickets Click here.

At Korea/Japan 2002, with star turns from the likes of Hasan Sas, Hakan Sukur and Ilhan Mansiz, Turkey stunned everyone by reaching the semi-finals, where they lost to the eventual winner's Brazil. In the end, they took home the bronze medal with victory in the third-place game over co-hosts Korea Republic, memorable also for Sukur marking the fastest goal in Football World Cup history after 11 seconds.

Gunes, who was also in charge of the team back in 2002, is now trying to shape a new generation of heroes with a mix of home-based and overseas talent. Ahead of the Norway game, his captain Burak Yilmaz showed how confident.

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Key factors

Solidity: In their opening two matches, the Turkish rearguard had to contain the aggressive threat of players like Memphis Depay and Erling Haaland, two of the finest forwards in world football at present. Though, with English Premier League players Ozan Kabak of Liverpool and Caglar Soyuncu of Leicester City alongside Kaan Ayhan of US Sassuolo, the Crescent Stars were able to hold their distrustful line. For more to know about FIFA World Cup Tickets Click Here.

Ruthlessness: With seven goals in two matches from just eight shots on target, Turkey has been cruelly effective upfront. Gunes has plenty of top international players at his removal, among them AC Milan's Hakan Calhanoglu:

"Turkish players are highly skilled but of course we can still recover in terms of our play and tactics, said the coach. However, it says a lot that only two players Ozan Tufan and Ugurcan Cakir from our starting line-up play in the Turkish league."

Star quality: I badly want us to qualify for the Qatar Football World Cup 2022, captain Yilmaz said of their quest. The skipper believes in leading by example after clutching three of his side’s four goals against the Dutch. Then against Norway, it was the turn of Tufan to weigh in with two strikes of his own, repeating to everyone that Turkey has numerous players who can win the match with individual brilliance.

Turkey Football World Cup team could not have wished for a better start on the road to Qatar football world cup 2022 and have laid the foundations for a return to football’s flagship event. If Yilmaz can continue to stimulate and lead as he has been doing, then he and team-mates like Hakan Calhanoglu, Caglar Soyuncu and Tufan stand every chance of following in the paths of the heroes of 2002 and earning fabled status themselves.

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