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very gently worn and washed, rare grassroots football shirt that asks the question, what if the Ottoman Empire had a national football association and a national team. fun fact: there were club teams in the Ottoman Empire -> some interesting reading material on the subject from the Galatasaray website: “Two Englishmen living in İstanbul, James Lafontaine and Horace Armitage founded Kadıköy Football Club on 1901 but on 1903 because of a dispute between English players on the team, Kadıköy FC divided and gave birth to another club: Moda Club. On 1904, these clubs came together with other teams like Imogen, Elpis, Strugglers and founded İstanbul Football Union. They were playing regular games in “Union Club-İttihat Spor” field in İstanbul where Şükrü Saraçoğlu Stadium is on today. As it can be inferred, all these teams were non-Turkish or founded by minorities in İstanbul. Galatasaray High School students were interested and saddened by the games played between these non-Turkish teams. Now, their goal was to found their own clubs like English, learn the rules of this game end to end and compete with non-Turkish teams. Beating non-Turkish teams The founder of Galatasaray Spor Kulübü, Ali Sami Yen tells the story of the club’s formation with these words in his book “Ellinci Yıl”: “We determined to found a football club in Galatasaray on 1 Teşrin 1905 according to Julian calendar during the literature class of our deceased tutor Mehmet Ata Bey. We were a few like-minded friends. First friends who were enthusiastic to play and compete were Asım Tevfik Sonumut, Reşat Şirvani, Cevdet Kalpakçıoğlu, Abidin Daver, Kamil… Our Bulgarian and Serbian schoolmates also joined us. Asım was the accountant, Cevdet was the vice chairman and I was the chairman. Asım was the accountant because he was good at collecting a penny for the club every week from the members. I was the chairman because I knew how to oil and inflate the ball. I was caring for the ball as it was my own blood. After all, all we had was a ball. I bought lard every morning on my road to the school. I would oil and inflate the ball with it. I made a patch to the ball by cutting a piece from my new shoe. The friends who saw what I did showed deference to me more than anyone else in the club. At that time, for being chairman or being elected to any other duty, you needed to gather deference by being the most hardworking person in the room. Similarly, Cevdet was the vice chairman because he was washing our jerseys.” “Our goal is to play in a collective way like English, to signify a certain color and a name and to beat non-Turkish teams.” Although there were ideas to name the club as Gloria or Audace, finally the name was decided to be Galatasaray. According to researcher Cem Atabeyoğlu, the name Galatasaray was derived from the fans saying “These are the gentlemen of Galata Palace” while the team beat a Greek squad 2-0 in their first game ever. Founders adopted this name and preferred club’s name to be Galatasaray which translates to Galata Palace in English.”
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