The response of the club which withdrew its team after a goal by Mauro Icardi and sparked a scandal in Turkey

Sunday on Turkish Super Cup, yes, in quotes. The fact is that the final that brought together the two largest clubs in the country was interrupted: Fenerbahçe (Cup champion) presented an under-19 team and withdrew it one minute after the start of the match Galatasaray (Super League champion) scored 1-0 with the Argentine Mauro Icardi.

On April 2 they met 23 thousand members at a general meeting to see what measures to take in response to the rejection of the Turkish Football Federation. Furthermore, the team had requested a foreign referee to fight the “unfair context in Turkish football“.

Faced with this situation, the managers evaluated the possibility of not showing up and not playing with the youth teams, finally opting for the second option. Galatasaray He presented the best of his team and after 50 seconds icardi brings the result to 1 to 0. Immediately afterwards, the players of Fenerbahçe They left the field.

The match was suspended and awarded to the current leader of the Turkish championship. After the celebrations, the players reunited a duel against the substitutes and they played in front of the fans still in the stadium.

This Monday Fenerbahce published a statement on its official website explaining the reasons for his abandonment. He considered it in recent years ”has been damaged“. He also detailed them all one by one.”injustices“such as in the 2010-2011 season when “falsely accused of match-fixing“.

Between 2011 and 2021, Canaries They had a legal battle to prove that this was not the case and that they were innocent. From the club they say that these accusations come from”a terrorist organization infiltrated the StateThis accusation caused the club to lose many commercial contracts and the club’s value was devalued.

Turkish football banned him from participating in two editions of the championship Champions Leaguedecision he made”before the outcome of the trialAnother fact he denounces Fenerbahçe is the shooting on his bus in April 2015, after the defeat of the Rizespor by 5 to 1 and that those responsible have not yet been identified.

The last thing that happened to Fenerbahce was the invasion of Fenerbahce fans Trabzonspor on March 17. Security could not carry out its task and Thousands of fans took to the pitch hit players. Despite this the Turkish football did not intervene against Trabzonspor.

“Just as we have served Turkish sport throughout our 117-year history in every sport we compete in, with thousands of trophies demonstrating our hard work and dedication, we will continue to fight against injustice yesterday, today and we will continue to do so tomorrow”, concluded the Fenerbahçe statement.

However, the club tries to quickly put what happened locally behind them and think about the difficult situation they find themselves with Olympiakos from Greece for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Conference League, Europe’s third step.