20-year-old Arif Şimşir, who saved 2 penalties in Altınordu, who got 1 point with a 1-1 draw away with Batman Petrolspor, the leader of the 2nd League White Group, attracted all the attention. First, the young goalkeeper made his mark on the match by scoring İlyas Kubilay’s penalty in the 67th minute, and then by not allowing a goal in Okan’s penalty kick in the 90+3rd minute. Arif Şimşir, who scored a total of 4 penalties this season, became a source of pride for Altınordu, from whose infrastructure he was trained.
Arif Şimşir, who was trained in the Altınordu Equity System and has been playing for the red-dark blue jersey since the U12 age category, has become one of the important representatives of the club’s vision of training goalkeepers. This success of Şimşir, who has worn the national jersey 15 times so far, was seen as a reflection of the individual development model that Altınordu goalkeeper training has meticulously implemented for many years.
SENT TO SUPER LEAGUE AND EUROPE
Many goalkeepers showcased by Altınordu began to appear in the Super League, National Team and Europe. Altınordu, especially the national goalkeeper Berke Özer, who currently plays for France’s Lille team; He brought names such as Erce Kardeşler, Erhan Erentürk, Ali Emre Yanar, Ozan Can Oruç, Muhammet Taha Tepe, Serhat Öztaşdelen, Mert Furkan Bayram and Onuralp Çevikkan to Turkish football.
10 MILLION TL INVESTMENT IN YEŞİLYURT
Altınordu President Seyit Mehmet Özkan made an important investment move in the club. President Özkan, who is preparing to transfer the facilities in Torbalı to the Turkish Football Federation, renting the Selçuk Facilities to Söke 1970 and planning to dispose of the A team, invested 10 million TL in the club. President Seyit Mehmet Özkan made a significant investment for Altınordu’s facilities in Yeşilyurt. Sleeves were rolled up to install FIFA-approved artificial turf on a total of 5 fields, one of which is a large one, in Yesilyurt. It was announced that the cost of the investment in Altınordu Yeşilyurt Central Facilities is 10 million TL.
FIELD GROUNDS ARE BEING RENEWED
In the statement made, “We have started to change the grounds of the fields where a thousand of our children play sports in Yeşilyurt Central Football School. Nurteks FIFA approved 55 mm Iron Grass type synthetic grass products are used on the grounds of 1 large field and 4 small fields. The amount of the investment is 10 Million TL. With this work we started in order for our children and young people to be educated in better conditions, on fields that comply with modern football standards, 9,500 square meters. The grounds of our field will be renewed. With the new ground, a safer, more durable and higher quality playing field will be created for both our elite teams and football school students. After the completion of the work, our fields will be able to be used with high performance at all times of the year.