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Yılmaz Yücetürk

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Yılmaz Yücetürk
Personal information
Date of birth 12 March 1941[1]/1 July 1940[2]
Place of birth Gönen, Turkey[1]/Balikesir, Turkey[2]
Date of death 20 May 2005
Place of death Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Fenerbahce
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1957–1961 Fenerbahce
1961–1967 Türk Telekom GSK
1967–1969 MKE Ankaragücü
International career
1959 Turkey U-18 2 (0)
1964–1965 Turkey U-21
Managerial career
1987[3] Fenerbahce (technical director)
1987–1988[1] Kuşadasıspor
1990–1992[2] Zeytinburnuspor (coach and technical director)
1995 Erzurumspor
2000–2002[5] Eritrea[4]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yılmaz Yücetürk (died 20 May 2005 in Kadıköy, Istanbul) was a Turkish football coach who last managed the Eritrea national football team.

Career

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Rising through Fenerbahce's youth ranks, Yücetürk played for MKE Ankaragücü and PTT, the previous incarnation of Türk Telekom GSK, during his senior career.[6] One year succeeding his retirement, Yücetürk took over the family business and never thought about a return to football;[7] however, after going to Germany to watch the 1974 World Cup, the former player entered the Cologne Sport University as a superannuated student and got a PhD in football.[7] More than a decade later, Yücetürk was technical director of Fenerbahce.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] He also served as coach for Kuşadasıspor, Zeytinburnuspor, and Erzurumspor in his later career.[15] The former midfielder also assumed the role of president of the Turkish Football Federation's Research and Planning Department upon returning to Turkey.[6]

In the summer of 2000, Yücetürk took charge of the Eritrea national team upon request as part of a Meridian project for African football development, an idea incubated by FIFA.[16] There, he trained over 100 coaches and organized 5 coaching symposiums.[7] Besides heading the Eritrean men's team, he helped develop the Eritrea women's national football team as well[7] with the Turkish Football Federation covering half his salary.[7]

On May 20, 2005, Yücetürk died at the Acıbadem Kozyatağı Hospital in Istanbul.[6][17]

Personal life

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Yücetürk had a wife and two sons.[7]

Bibliography

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  • Yücetürk, A. Yilmaz. Antrenman, Kavrami, Prenslıperı, Plani.

References

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