Turkey

Turkey

Turkey

Team Name	Turkey
Nickname(s)	Ay Yıldızlılar (The Crescent-Stars)
Stadium	Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı İzmir Atatürk Stadyumu Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadyumu
Manager	Abdullah Avcı
Captain	Arda Turan
Confederation	UEFA
Five Star Ranking

Turkey are an average nation but do include quite a number of top quality players such as Arda Turan, Sabri Sarioglu, Nihat, Emre Belozoglu and Tuncay Sanli. In Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 they were licensed for the first time. Their good Euro 2008 performance resulted in stat increases for many of their key players. Unlike many other nations, most of the Turkish players are widely known by their first names rather than their surnames.

Turkey Squad during Euro 2008 qualification

[edit] PES 2010

The team squad has had a shake up but nothing too dramatic, the likes of Ayhan Akman, Nuri Sahin and Colin Kazim-Richards feature for the national team for the first time and the likes of Yildiray Basturk and Tumer Metin have been removed from the 23 man squad and all the players have preset faces. The nation also appear in the same home strip that was worn in PES 2009.

The squad still however features Rustu Recber who announced his retirement in the summer of 2008. He was called up for one World Cup qualifying game, but lost his place again, so much criticism has been called on this action.

Players that missed out on the squad list include, Fatih Tekke, Serkan Kirintili and Gokdeniz Karadeniz.

[edit] PES 2013 Squad

Pos.	No.	Name
	12	Sinan Bolat
	21	Omer Toprak
	16	Egemen Korkmaz
	7	Gokhan Gonul
	13	Ismail Koybasi
	15	Mehmet Topal
	20	Nuri Sahin
	6	Hamit Altintop
	14	Arda Turan
	10	Mehmet Ekici
	17	Burak Yilmaz
	1	Volkan Demirel
	2	Serdar Aziz
	4	Bekir Irtegun
	19	Semih Kaya
	3	Hasan Ali Kaldirim
	5	Emre Belozoglu
	8	Selcuk Inan
	23	Gokhan Tore
	18	Caner Erkin
	22	Olcan Adin
	11	Tunay Torun
	9	Umut Bulut