Süleyman Seba
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Süleyman Seba 5 April 1926 Soğuksulu, Sakarya, Turkey |
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| Died | 13 August 2014 (aged 88) Istanbul, Turkey |
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| Resting place | Feriköy Cemetery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Footballer, sports executive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Association football career
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| Playing position | Winger | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1946–1953 | Beşiktaş J.K. | 87 | (22) |
| Total | 88 | (22) | |
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| 1952 | Turkey | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC) |
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Süleyman Seba (5 April 1926 – 13 August 2014) was a Turkish football player and was the longest presiding Chairman of the Istanbul based multisports club Beşiktaş J.K..
Süleyman Seba (Abkhaz name Tsyba) was born on 5 April 1926 in Soğuksulu, a village in the Sakarya Province of Turkey. Seba family moved to Akaretler district in Beşiktaş, Istanbul when Süleyman Seba was 5 or 6 years old. Although most resources state that Seba attended the prestigious Galatasaray High School in the Beyoğlu district for a while, some other resources state that this was just a plan. After finishing elementary school in Beşiktaş in 1938, Seba went to Kabataş High School on the Bosphorus, another prestigious historic Turkish high school, in the Beşiktaş district. He selected this school due to the proximity to the training fields of the local football club Beşiktaş J.K..
Seba later enrolled into Mimar Sinan University's Faculty of Literature to study French philology, but due to his football career he never graduated. He also tried to obtain a degree in geography but he couldn't attend the exams when Beşiktaş J.K. was invited to play some friendlies in the United States.
Seba started to play football in the Kabataş High School team. The promising player was soon discovered by the local football club Beşiktaş J.K. and admitted to its junior team. With his contribution, the junior team became the champions of that season, and Seba was promoted to the rank of team captain a short time later. In 1946, he was called to become a member of the A-team.
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