Fatih Terim
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Fatih Terim | ||
| Date of birth | 4 September 1953 | ||
| Place of birth | Adana, Turkey | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Turkey (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1963–1969 | Adana Demirspor | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1969–1974 | Adana Demirspor | 125 | (25) |
| 1974–1985 | Galatasaray | 327 | (16) |
| Total | 452 | (41) | |
| National team | |||
| 1971 | Turkey U19 | 7 | (0) |
| 1973–1975 | Turkey U21 | 10 | (0) |
| 1975–1985 | Turkey | 51 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1987–1989 | Ankaragücü | ||
| 1989–1990 | Göztepe | ||
| 1990–1993 | Turkey U21 | ||
| 1993–1996 | Turkey | ||
| 1996–2000 | Galatasaray | ||
| 2000–2001 | Fiorentina | ||
| 2001 | Milan | ||
| 2002–2004 | Galatasaray | ||
| 2005–2009 | Turkey | ||
| 2011–2013 | Galatasaray | ||
| 2013– | Turkey | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Fatih Terim, Commendatore OSSI, T.C, (born 4 September 1953) is a Turkish association football manager and former player who is manager of the Turkish national football team. His Turkish nickname is İmparator, and his Italian nickname is Imperatore. Both names mean "emperor".
Terim has managed several clubs in Italy and Turkey, as well as the Turkish national team. In a survey conducted by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) in 80 countries, he was placed among the best eight managers in the world, receiving his award at a ceremony held in Rothenburg, Germany, on 8 January 2001. Terim received a nomination for UEFA manager of the year 2008, and Eurosport named him the best coach at UEFA Euro 2008. In December 2008, he was ranked the seventh-best football manager in the world by World Soccer Magazine in 2008. Terim resigned as manager of Turkey in October 2009 after their failure to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals. His last post as a club manager was at Galatasaray from 2011 to 2013 (his third term there).
In 1969, Terim began his professional football career with Adana Demirspor. Because of his financial difficulties, he was the only player in the team who was being paid secretly by the club at the time. He became the team captain three years later. Terim played for Adana Demirspor until 1974, when he joined Galatasaray as a sweeper. As the team captain, he had to fill in for injured defenders and eventually he ended up playing regularly as a sweeper/defender. Terim played 11 years for the Istanbul club. During that time, the club never won the Turkish league championship trophy. He played for the Turkish national team 51 times between 1974 and 1985 and was the national team captain for 35 international games, setting the national record in both categories at that time. He ended his playing career at Galatasaray in 1985. Abdullah Gegiç, a famous football coach with Partizan Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia and Eskişehirspor in Turkey, knew Terim from his days as a central defender and described him as an intelligent defender with Beckenbauer-like qualities. Gegiç attributed Terim's successes as a coach to the unique understanding of the game that he developed while playing as a central defender.
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