An emotional presentation video for the new kit of Black Sea giants Trabzonspor received high praise from fans online. The two-minute video tells a story of a young Trabzonspor fan from a mountainous village in northern Turkey's Trabzon province. Saddened by the fact that unlike his friends he does not own a jersey of his favorite team, the boy takes a plain gray t-shirt and uses a marker to put number 10 and name "Abdülkadir" on it in reference to the club's 20-year-old winger Abdülkadir Ömür. Seeing this, his mother employs traditional handcraft to make a Tranzonspor kit for her son using a handloom, overjoying the boy. According to Trabzonspor, the new gray away kit was inspired by "keşan" — ornamented headscarves worn in the northern region. The video shared by the club on Twitter was watched more than 3.5 million times since Friday evening and received 20,000 retweets and 81,000 likes. Among others, the video was re-shared by Barcelona … [Read more...] about Fans applaud Trabzonspor’s emotional kit presentation video
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Pinot pips Alaphilippe to triumph on Tourmalet
Defending champion Geraint Thomas lost 35 seconds after being dropped at the death, while his Ineos co-captain Egan Bernal finished a few seconds behind the winner at the first of seven summit finishes over 2,000 metres. Thomas is now over two minutes behind Alaphilippe in the general classification. As the 117-km stage 14 climbed above the tree-line and above the mist where the oxygen levels were lower and fans at fever pitch lent a hint of insanity to proceedings, contenders for the overall victory gradually fell by the wayside. Adam Yates, Dan Martin, Rigoberto Uran, Nairo Quintana and Jakob Fuglsang, all suddenly wilted one after the other as the FDJ pair kept up the pace. Few expected the yellow jersey Alaphilippe to thrive on Friday's time-trial, which he won and fewer still here on the Tourmalet. Macron climbs Tourmalet for 100 years of yellow jersey Alaphilippe powers past prophets of doom to clinch Tour time-trial But Alaphilippe dug deep and when he climbed out of … [Read more...] about Pinot pips Alaphilippe to triumph on Tourmalet
Hundreds of Senegalese watch AFCON final in wedding hall
ISTANBUL- Anadolu Agency Hundreds of Senegalese citizens living in Istanbul gathered on July 19 in a wedding hall to watch the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations final between Algeria and Senegal. The match was played in Egypt at the International Cairo stadium. Football fanatics watched the match on a rented giant screen organized by the Senegalese association in the Fatih district. Meanwhile, many Africans also watched the match in different neighborhoods of Istanbul. Algeria won their first Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title in 29 years, beating Senegal 1-0 during the match. With Senegal unable to score to draw the game, Algeria became AFCON champions for the second time in the tournament’s history. Senegal, who were runners-up in the 2002 AFCON, missed their chance to win the cup for the first time. Algeria were awarded $4.5 million in prize money while Senegal received $2.5 million. Three Turkish Super Lig players made appearances. Midfielder Sofiane Feghouli from … [Read more...] about Hundreds of Senegalese watch AFCON final in wedding hall
Turkish keyboarders score top prizes in tournament
ITALY- Anadolu Agency A Turkish group on July 19 won top awards at an international keyboarding championship in Italy. Celal Aşkın broke his own record in the text production category for seniors and won a gold medal by typing 156 words a minute. Organized by Intersteno, the International Federation for Information and Communication Processing, the championships were held on July 13-19 in Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, Italy. İlyas Pamukçu won second place in the text production category for juniors by typing 117 words a minute, while Mehmet Kurt won third place with 113 words. Hakan Kurt won world championship award in the shorthand and Speech Capturing category for seniors with 321 words a minute, while Celal Aşkın got second-place honors with 320 words. Onur Demirbaş also won the world championship in the real-time transcription category for pupils, while Celal Askin won second place for seniors and Hakan Kurt got third place, and … [Read more...] about Turkish keyboarders score top prizes in tournament
Algeria beat Senegal to claim Africa Cup of Nations
The north Africans took the lead with their first attack after 79 seconds. Ismael Bennacer fed the ball to Baghdad Boundejah and he bustled upfield. Without many options, he let fly. The shot took a huge deflection off Salif Sane, flew up into the air and dipped down over the befuddled Senegal goalkeeper Alfred Gomis into the net. Senegal gradually recovered their poise and started to drive at the Algeria defenders. But they could not create any clear chances. Algeria coach Djamel Belmadi had packed his midfield to frustrate. Senegal appeared clueless in front of a ruggedly canny block and were unable to muster any fluidity. Harness Promising attacks were foiled with cynical fouls and Senegal’s imprecision from the ensuing free-kicks failed to punish the frequent offences. Senegal’s best effort of the first-half was M’Baye Niang’s snapshot on the turn. His drive whistled inches over Rais M’Bohli’s crossbar. The niggliness of the opening period … [Read more...] about Algeria beat Senegal to claim Africa Cup of Nations