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Wednesday, January 25 2006 @ 12:25 AM Central Standard Time
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 The turmoil in Turkish football increased late Thursday when national coach Fatih Terim tended his resignation after just eight months in the job.
Terim’s resignation comes after the re-election of Football Federation president Haluk Ulusoy.
Terim announced he was quitting only hours after controversial Turkish Football Federation president Haluk Ulusoy was re-elected for another term in office.
“I am resigning to give the new administration, chosen because of the changes in the Turkish Football Federation’s management, freedom in its decisions,” Terim said. “I will unilaterally annul my contract although it is a five-year deal. Of course I respect whatever decision the new federation takes.”
Terim, who failed to lift the Turkish team’s flagging campaign to qualify for the World Cup finals in Germany this year, had previously coached the national team between 1993 and 1996, qualifying for the finals of Euro 1996 in England.
Terim’s resignation comes as the TFF is mired in controversy, with Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin, the minister responsible for sport, threatening to overturn the results of Thursday’s election of Ulusoy to Turkish football’s top job. Sahin has said he might call an extraordinary general assembly for the TFF in an effort to remove Ulusoy due to the fact that an investigation by a government agency alleged wide scale irregularities during his previous term in office. |
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