"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness, the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. "

Khalil Gibran (How I Became a Madman)

Lübnan Marunîleri / Yasin Atlıoğlu

NEWS AND ARTICLES / HABERLER VE MAKALELER

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Victory of Friendship


SOURCE: Fenerbahce Football Club Web Site

Halep Olympic Stadium was opened with ceremonies and activities. Fenerbahce also attended to those organizations and played a friendly football match agains Al Ittihad in Syria. The Primeminister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Syria Basar el-Esad, the President of Fenerbahce Aziz Yildirim and lots of other politicians attended to the opening of the Halep Stadium.

The Primeminister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the President of Bessar Esad opened the stadium officially by playing with the symbolic balls. Later they greeted the tribunes together. The President of Fenerbahce Aziz Yildirim gave them Fenerbahce shirts with their names on it as a gift.

The tribunes were decorated with turkish and syrish flags and yellow navy coloured balloons. After the show our footballers came to the pitch and threw flowers to the fans.

There were 75000 fans in the stadium and 10000 more fans could not get into the stadium because of the fact that it had been already full.
Injured footballers Umit, Lugano, Appiah and Rüstü stayed in Istanbul to continue with their schedule.

AL İTTİHAD - FENERBAHÇE: 2-2

Al İttihad: Karker, Baghiri Tara, Muhammed Homsi, Mionel Neşet, Haydar Abdülcabbar, Anatoli, Mahmut, Yahya, Muhammed Ateş, Abdül Aga, Nassarin.

Fenerbahçe: Volkan, Önder Turacı, Can Arat, Edu, Uğur Boral, Mehmet Yozgatlı, Selçuk, Kemal, Tuncay, Deivid, Semih.

Goals: 8. Min Abdül Aga (Al İttihad), 12. Min Semih (Fenerbahçe), 86. Min Dumito (Al İttihad), 88. Min Deniz (Fenerbahçe)