Ali Sami Yen

Ali Sami Yen
Personal information

Full name	Ali Sami Yen
Date of birth	20 May 1886
Place of birth	Üsküdar, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Date of death	29 July 1951(1951-07-29) (aged 65)
Place of death	Istanbul, Turkey
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1905–1910	Galatasaray SK
Teams managed
1916-1917	Galatasaray SK
1923	Turkey
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Ali Sami Yen (20 May 1886 – 29 July 1951) was an Albanian-Turkish sports official best known as the founder of the Galatasaray Sports Club. His birth name was Ali Sami Frashëri, the son of Sami Frashëri, one of the most famous Albanian writers, philosophers and playwrights. After the enactment of law on family names in 1934, he took the surname Yen, which literally means “win” in the Turkish language.

Life

Sami Yen was born in Kandilli, Üsküdar.^[1]

Istanbul Football League champions, Galatasaray, 1909.
On foot: Adnan, Milo Bakić, Ali Sami (founder), Ahmet Robenson, Asım Tevfik, Emin Bülent, Hamit, Fuat.

Ali Sami Yen wax sculpture in Galatasaray Museum.

He was a student at the prestigious Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. In October 1905, he decided with some of his fellow students to create a football club. At the beginning, the stated goal was “To play together like Englishmen, to have a color and a name, and to beat the other non Turkish teams” according to him.

Ali Sami Yen founded the colours of Galatasaray, stating, "We were imagining brightness of yellow-red fire over our team and thinking that it would carry us from one victory to another."

In 1905, during the era of the Ottoman Empire, there were no laws for associations so the club could not be registered officially, but, after the 1912 Law of Association, the club registered legally.

Yen was the club's first president for 13 years, between 1905 and 1918, and again for a brief spell in 1925. Besides founding Galatasaray SK, he made numerous other contributions to Turkish sports. He was president of the Turkish Olympic Committee between 1926 and 1931. He coached the Turkish national team in its first international match, in 1923 against Romania.

Ali Sami Yen died in 1951. He was laid to rest at the Feriköy Cemetery in Istanbul.

As founder and first president of Galatasaray SK, Ali Sami Yen's name was given to the Galatasaray's long time Ali Sami Yen Stadium which was built in 1964 and situated in the center of Istanbul in Mecidiyeköy. However in January 2011, the club moved to its new home in the Türk Telekom Arena in the Seyrantepe district while the old stadium was demolished to make way for the construction of a new commercial development.

Honours

As player

Galatasaray SK

Istanbul Football League: 1908–1909, 1909–1910, 1910–1911

Personal life

He was married to Fahriye Yen (born November 1900 and died 6 October 2002).

References

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↑ İbrahim Aksu, The story of Turkish surnames: an onomastic study of Turkish family names, their origins, and related matters, Vol: 1, Olay Gazete Press, 2005, ISBN 978-9944-5163-0-3, p. 128.

Sporting positions
Preceded by First	President of Galatasaray SK 1905 – 15 May 1919	Succeeded by Refik Cevdet Kalpakçıoğlu
Preceded by Yusuf Ziya Öniş	President of Galatasaray SK 23 Apr 1925 – 17 Jul 1925	Succeeded by Ahmet Robenson

Galatasaray S.K. – managers

Nikolov (1905–06)
Serdaroğlu (1907)
Armitage (1908–11)
Serdaroğlu (1911–14)
Sadi Bey (1915)
Sami Yen (1916–17)
Şahin (1919–21)
Giray (1922–23)
Kabalski (1923–24)
Hunter (1924–28)
Limbeck (1930–31)
Pagnam (1931–32)
Puddefoot (1933–36)
Baar (1937)
Szabó (1938)
Tandler (1938–39)
Hayman (1939)
Zaharczuk (1939–40)
Begget (1940–45)
Dimitriyadis (1945–46)
Swenk (1947)
Molloy (1947–49)
Lochhead (1950–52)
Kılıç (1952–53)
Székely (1953–54)
Kılıç (1954–57)
Dick (1957–58)
Remondini (1959–61)
Kılıç (1961–63)
Özarı (1963–64)
Kılıç (1964–67)
Aykaç (1967–68)
Kaloperović (1968–70)
Oktay (1970)
Özarı (1970–71)
Birch (1971–74)
Mansell (1974–75)
Howe (1975–76)
Allison (1976–77)
Demircan (1977–78)
Özarı (1978–79)
Şeren (1979–80)
Birch (1980–82)
Sümer (1982–83)
Ivić (1983–84)
Derwall (1984–87)
Denizli (1987–89)
Held (1989–90)
Denizli (1990–92)
Feldkamp (1992–93)
Hollmann (1993–94)
Saftig (1994–95)
Erkasap (1995)
Souness (1995–96)
Terim (1996–2000)
Lucescu (2000–02)
Terim (2002–04)
Hagi (2004–05)
Gerets (2005–07)
Feldkamp (2007–08)
Güler (a.i.) (2008)
Skibbe (2008–09)
Korkmaz (2009)
Rijkaard (2009–10)
Hagi (2010–11)
Ünder (2011)
Terim (2011–13)
Davala (a.i.) (2013)
Mancini (2013–14)
Prandelli (2014)
Taffarel (a.i.) (2014)
Hamzaoğlu (2014–15)
Taffarel (a.i.) (2015)
Denizli (2015–16)
Atik (a.i.) (2016)
Olde Riekerink (2016–)

Galatasaray S.K. presidents

Ali Sami Yen (1905–19)
Refik Cevdet Kalpakçıoğlu (1919–22)
Yusuf Ziya Öniş (1922–25)
Ali Sami Yen (1925)
Ahmet Robenson (1925)
Ali Haydar Şekip (1925–26)
Adnan İbrahim Pirioğlu (1926–28)
Necmettin Sadık Sadak (1928–29)
Abidin Daver (1929–30)
Ahmet Kara (1930–31)
Tahir Kevkep (1931–32)
Ali Haydar Barşal (1932)
Ahmet Kara (1932)
Fethi İsfendiyaroğlu (1932–33)
Ali Haydar Barşal (1933–34)
Refik Cevdet Kalpakçıoğlu (1934)
Ethem Menemencioğlu (1934–36)
Saim Gogen (1936–37)
Sedat Ziya Kantoğlu (1937–39)
Nizan Nuri (1939)
Adnan Akıska (1939)
Sedat Ziya Kantoğlu (1939–40)
Tevfik Ali Çınar (1940–42)
Osman Dardağan (1942–44)
Sedat Ziya Kantoğlu (1944)
Muslihittin Peykoğlu (1944–46)
Suphi Batur (1946–50)
Yusuf Ziya Öniş (1950–53)
Ulvi Yenal (1953–54)
Refik Selimoğlu (1954–57)
Sadık Giz (1957–60)
Refik Selimoğlu (1960–62)
Ulvi Yenal (1962–65)
Suphi Batur (1965–69)
Selahattin Beyazıt (1969–73)
Mustafa Pekin (1973–75)
Selahattin Beyazıt (1975–79)
Ali Uras (1979–86)
Ali Tanrıyar (1986–90)
Alp Yalman (1990–96)
Faruk Süren (1996–2001)
Mehmet Cansun (2001–02)
Özhan Canaydın (2002–08)
Adnan Polat (2008–11)
Ünal Aysal (2011–14)
Duygun Yarsuvat (2014–15)
Dursun Özbek (2015–)

Presidents of the National Olympic Committee of Turkey

Ahmet İhsan Tokgöz (1908-1921)
Hasip Bayındırlıoğlu (1921-1923)
Selim Sırrı Tarcan (1923-1927)
Ali Sami Yen (1927-1930)
Kemalettin Sami Paşa (1930-1933)
Reşit Saffet Atabinen (1933-1936)
Halil Bayrak (1936-1937)
Adnan Menderes (1937-1938)
Cemil Cahit Taner (1938-1943)
Vildan Aşir Savaşır (1943-1950)
Danyal Akbel (1950-1952)
Cemal Alpman (1952-1954)
Faik Binal (1954-1956)
Nizamettin Kırşan (1956-1958)
Şinasi Ataman (1958-1959)
Mehmet Arkan (1959-1960)
Hüsamettin Güreli (1960)
Bekir Silahçılar (1960-1962)
Burhan Felek (1962-1982)
Raşit Serdengeçti (1982)
Turgut Atakol (1982-1988)
Jerfi Fıratlı (1988-1989)
Sinan Erdem (1989-2003)
Togay Bayatlı (2003-2011)
Uğur Erdener (2011- )

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