Ozyakup anticipating for another European highway trip

• Oguzhan Ozyakup prepared for extreme Group we run-in
• Hopes new manager Mircea Lucescu will yield additional corner opposite Ukraine
• Currently operative underneath mythological 2002 manager Senol Gunes during Besiktas

Fleeting glances from a behind chair of his family automobile were a initial tastes Oguzhan Ozyakup got of where he now calls home. Since relocating to a land of his relatives 6 years ago, Istanbul has been good to him, bringing back-to-back titles with Besiktas, though European highway trips gave a Amsterdam-native his introduction.

“Before we came here we had never unequivocally come to Istanbul, we usually gathering past it a few times as we went on holiday any summer to see family,” Ozyakup explained to FIFA.com in an disdainful interview. “My family are from Trabzon and Ankara, so when entrance by automobile we didn’t unequivocally have time to spend here.

“When we were tiny we had a large family, so it was partial of a holiday, pushing by a few countries to get to Turkey and afterwards staying for 6 weeks,” he reminisced, recalling a cross-continental trips as a child with uncles and cousins widespread opposite a tiny swift of cars. “It took about two-and-a-half days to get to Turkey, though it was a good experience, it was different.”

A rekindled Turkish journey
That was also when Ay-Yıldızlılar (The Crescent Stars) enjoyed their final outing to a FIFA World Cup™, overwhelming a creation to finish third during Korea/Japan 2002. Memories of removing a few hours off propagandize to watch a likes of Hakan Sukur gleam have come to a front of late as, for a final dual years during bar level, he has worked underneath a male who masterminded that journey: Senol Gunes.

“I was unequivocally immature when we watched him as a manager and as a child we always dreamed of being a footballer, so it’s uncanny to afterwards work with him and turn a two-time champion.”

Ozyakup has seen Besiktas go by a mutation given fasten 5 years ago, cultivating a immature side who Gunes has incited into winners given holding charge, fostering a parsimonious unit. “He’s a unequivocally large coach, with a clubs he has had before and of march what he did for a nation in a World Cup. He unequivocally likes to assistance immature players and that’s what was unequivocally good for us.

“We have a organisation where a players adore any other and we trust that loyalty in a team, of march with a peculiarity on a pitch, unequivocally helps.”

The inhabitant organisation has prospered of late too, reaching UEFA EURO 2016 after narrowly clinching involuntary gift as a best third-place team. “Turkish football has unequivocally finished stairs over a final few years,” Ozyakup reflected on his initial vital tournament. “We became a organisation when we competent for a European Championship.”

Now he is anticipating for a highway outing to Russia, as a business finish of 2018 World Cup gift heaves into view, where it is a close-run thing in Group I. Just dual points apart leaders Croatia and Iceland from Turkey and Ukraine.

#WCQ | Group we (EUROPE)
Finland 1-2 Ukraine
Iceland 1-0 Croatia
Kosovo 1-4 Turkey
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Qualifying questions?
A change of crew during a tip has combined a covering of amour to a equation, however. Mircea Lucescu’s attainment as manager brings with it some questions forward of Turkey’s subsequent strife with Ukraine: Will his 12 years during Shakhtar Donetsk give Turkey a corner over them? Will a reorganization interrupt their new good form? Who will make his initial squad?

Unfortunately for Ozyakup, a answer to a final doubt was not one he wanted to hear, so he will be examination a movement in Kharkiv from Istanbul as Lucescu leads them for a initial time. One thing is certain, though: 4 wins from their final games means they are Russia-bound.

“It’s humorous that we are personification Ukraine divided in his initial game. It’s going to be unequivocally engaging for him. Everybody knows what he has finished for Shakhtar, so we wish it will assistance us,” he pronounced of a manager with scarcely 40 years’ experience. “We have to aim for a win since we don’t have another choice.

“When we competent for [UEFA EURO 2016] we didn’t have all in the hands, now it’s within the control. We have a clever team, clever organisation and we unequivocally have a chance.”

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2017/m=8/news=ozyakup-hoping-for-another-european-road-trip-2905493.html