Turkish football club to donate UEFA Conference League ticket revenue to quake victims

Turkish football club to donate UEFA Conference League ticket revenue to quake victims

Published February 13,2023


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Defending Turkish Super Lig champions Trabzonspor will donate their UEFA Europa Conference League ticket earnings to earthquake victims within the nation, the membership introduced on Monday.

In a press release, Trabzonspor stated tickets for the primary leg of the play-off vary price between 100 and 750 Turkish liras ($5-40).

Thursday’s Trabzonspor vs. Basel conflict shall be held at 1745 GMT on the Senol Gunes Sports Complex.

Cevad Prekazi, a legendary Kosovo-born veteran in Galatasaray, put an autographed jersey up for public sale, with the 210,000 liras it bought for to go to victims of the 2 huge earthquakes in southern Türkiye that left over 31,600 folks lifeless.

Atalanta defender Merih Demiral additionally auctioned off the autographed shirts and gloves of superstars to the good thing about Turkish support group Ahbap.

Demiral, 24, stated on Twitter that complete donations to the earthquake zone had reached 7.5 million Turkish liras, or nearly $400,000.

– SPORTS WORLD MOURNS LOSSES

The earthquakes additionally took the lives of a number of Turkish and worldwide gamers who had been within the area on the time of the tremors.

TFF First League membership Yeni Malatyaspor’s goalkeeper Ahmet Eyup Turkaslan and Women’s Basketball Super League’s Cankaya University participant Nilay Aydogan died after the 7.7 and seven.6 magnitude quakes.

In addition, second-tier Kahramanmaras Istiklal Spor footballers Burhanettin Sever, Taner Kahriman, Hakan Dogan, and Saruhan Bolat additionally died.

Rescuers additionally discovered the lifeless our bodies of volleyball gamers underneath the rubble.

Married couple Betul Coban Cakir and Bedrettin Cakir, in addition to their fellow volleyball gamers Mehmet Can Agirbas, Murat Cilogullari, Umitcan Dogan, Azat Jumayev, and Sevgi Cihangir, died because of the earthquakes.

Rowing athletes Mir Berke Mutlu and Halil Ibrahim Elvermez, tennis coach Tuba Pidecioglu, and Iranian amputee gamers Mehdi Seyyidavi, Muhammed Riza Mirahmedi, and Hamid Matrudi additionally misplaced their lives within the wake of the devastating earthquakes.

Turkish Super Lig Atakas Hatayspor’s Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu and sporting director Taner Savut’s whereabouts are nonetheless unknown. Both had been in Hatay when the catastrophe struck.

The earthquakes, centered in Kahramanmaras province, additionally hit 9 different provinces-Hatay, Gaziantep, Adiyaman, Malatya, Adana, Diyarbakir, Kilis, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa.

Source: www.anews.com.tr

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