I must admit that the header is a bit slanted. BursaSpor is my favorite soccer team in the Turkish Premiere League, along with GalataSaray (Istanbul).
My friend Ugur Celikkol, who lives in the city of Bursa, heads a fan club for the team which returned to the first division last year after a two year absence.
BursaSpor (the Bursa Crocodiles) is currently eighth in the league. They face traditional powerhouse TrabzonSpor at Ataturk Stadium in Bursa this weekend. Trabzon is currently the fifth place team in the league after four weeks of play.
The top two teams in the league right now are and GalataSaray and GS rival Besiktas (Ist). The other Istanbul powerhouse Fenerbahce, the defending league champion, is in seventh place.
Last week, BursaSpor defeated Ankara Genclerbirligi 3-1 with goals from Mustafa Sarp (64th minute), Sinan Kaloglu (81st minute) and Ismail Gulduren (88th minute).
BursaSpor lost to GS during week 2 play by a 1-0 score. In week one play, BursaSpor tied ninth place Denizlispor 0-0.
My favorite American soccer team DC United plays FC Dallas on Sat., at 8:30 p.m./EST. Last week, the Washington, D.C. team defeated Toronto FC by a 1-0 count in Canada.
Of course, someone will ask which one I prefer, the Turkish soccer league or the MLS. While I definitely have an opinion on that, I will do what my late uncle Ilhan Gokbudak, a career diplomat, would have done_ which is to simply not go into that:)
Useful link:
http://www.anglefire.com/nj/sivritepe/index.html
http://dcunited.mls.com/103/index.jsp
BursaSpor links (in Turkish):
UPDATE: Well, everyone went home happy on this one. The BursaSpor-Trabzonspor game ended in a 1-1 tie.
DC United clobbered FC Dallas by a 4-0 count in Texas with two goals from Ben Olson.
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