Thursday, June 4, 2009

Australians in Turkey and the Harry Kewell Prize!



In recent years, Turkish Superleague teams have signed numerous players from Australia. Especially, Genclerbirligi (located in the country's capital Ankara) has signed threes Australian youngsters, who have been doing quite well in the league: Bruce Djite (from Adelaide United, James Troisi (Newcastle United), and Mile Jedinak (Central Coast Mariners). Djite and Troisi, I think, will draw the attention of bigger Istanbul teams in the future. Genclerbirligi president Ilhan Cavcav is known for his excellent vision to find young talents all over the world and sell them with good transfer figures. I think he hit the jackpot again.

In addition to this, of course, there is Harry Kewell of Galatasaray. The Genclerbirligi website states that all the three above-mentioned players have been shortlisted to win the award which will be announced June 11.

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