{"id":11117,"date":"2011-02-09T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=11117"},"modified":"2024-02-17T01:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T22:31:45","slug":"turkey-will-face-republic-of-korea-11117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-will-face-republic-of-korea-11117\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey will face Republic of Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turkey will play their first match of the new year with a home friendly against Republic of Korea at today in Trabzon.\/Sport News<\/h1>\n

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The match whose kick-off time will be at 20.00 with Turkish local time, will take place at H\u00fcseyin Avni Aker Stadium. The match will be officated byUkrainian match official Sergii Boiko. Oleg Pluzhnyk and Sergii Bekker will be the assistant referees, while Turkish H\u00fcseyin G\u00f6\u00e7ek has been appointed as the fourth official of the game.<\/p>\n

This friendly will be the 7th meeting between the two sides in their history. In the past four friendlies and two competitive matches, Turkey recorded four wins, one draw and one defeat out of their six past outings against their Asian rivals. One of the most memorable moments of the past meetings, were from\u00a0 the 2002 FIFA World Cup where the two sides made exceptional gestures of fair play. Turkey Head Coach Guus Hiddink was then in charge of the Korean team.<\/p>\n

Turkey last faced Republic of Korea in June 2004 when they played two friendly matches. Turkey had won the first game 1-0 before losing the second 2-1.<\/p>\n

Ranked 39th in the FIFA standings, Republic of Korea advanced into the Round of 16 at last summer’s 2010 FIFA World Cup, then were eliminated from the competition after a 2-1 defeat by Uruguay.<\/p>\n

Turkey squad consists of the players listed at the below:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Volkan Demirel, Fehmi Mert G\u00fcnok, G\u00f6khan G\u00f6n\u00fcl, Emre Bel\u00f6zo\u011flu (Fenerbah\u00e7e), Tolga Zengin, Serkan Balc\u0131, Sel\u00e7uk \u0130nan, Engin Baytar, Umut Bulut, Burak Y\u0131lmaz (Trabzonspor), Servet \u00c7etin, Hakan Kadir Balta, Sabri Sar\u0131o\u011flu, Yekta Kurtulu\u015f, Kaz\u0131m Kaz\u0131m (Galatasaray), \u0130smail K\u00f6yba\u015f\u0131 (Be\u015fikta\u015f), G\u00f6khan S\u00fczen (B\u00fcy\u00fck\u015fehir Belediyespor), Fehmi Emre G\u00fcng\u00f6r (Gaziantepspor), Yi\u011fit \u0130ncedemir (Manisaspor), Serdar Kesimal (Kayserispor), Mehmet Ekici (1.FC N\u00fcrnberg), Hamit Alt\u0131ntop (Bayern M\u00fcnih), Tunay Torun (Hamburg).<\/p>\n

Republic of Korea squad consists of the players listed at the below:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jung Sung-Ryong, Hwang Jae-Won, Lee Yong-Rae (Suwon Samsung), Kim Jin-Hyeon, Kim Bo-Kyung (Cerezo Osaka), Lee Jung-Soo (Al Sadd), Hong Jeong-Ho (Jeju United), Lee Sang-Duk (Daegu FC), Cha Du-Ri, Ki Sung-Yueng (Celtic), Hong Chul (Seongnam Ilhwa), Yun Suk-Young, Ji Dong-Won (Chunnam Dragons), Choi Hyo-Jin (Sangmu), Lee Chung-Yong (Bolton), Yoon Bitgaram (Gyeongnam FC), Choi Sung-Kuk (Sangju Sangmu), Koo Ja-Cheol (VfL Wolfsburg), Son Heung-Min (Hamburg SV), Park Chu-Young (AS Monaco), Nam Tae-Hee (Valenciennes FC), Kim Shin-Wook (Ulsan Hyundai).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkey will play their first match of the new year with a home friendly against Republic of Korea at today in Trabzon.\/Sport News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":11118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,80,127],"tags":[1700,15313,4505,14665,14670,14666,77182,14669,14667,2429],"class_list":["post-11117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-breaking-news","category-sport","tag-besiktas","tag-besiktas-jk","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-republic-of-korea","tag-republic-of-korea-squad","tag-trabzon","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-squad","tag-turkish-friendly-match","tag-turkish-national-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78652,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117\/revisions\/78652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}