Onurcan Piri, goalkeeper of GZT Giresunspor, one of the Super League teams, made statements. Expressing that wearing the jersey of his hometown is very valuable, Onurcan Piri said that he wanted Giresunspor to be in the Super League for many years and to wear the green-white jersey.
Giresunspor completed its preparations for the new season at the High Altitude Camp Center at the foot of Palandöken Mountain, which is 3 thousand 176 meters above sea level. Onurcan Piri, the goalkeeper of the green-white team, wanted Turkish goalkeepers to be given a chance.
Piri said, “It doesn’t matter what the league is. It is always very valuable to wear the jersey of your hometown. Being in the top league also gives us happiness and pride. We experienced that feeling last year, I had tasted it in different teams before, but of course, it is more valuable when it comes to my hometown. That’s why I hope we will be in it while this team is fighting in the Super League for many years.”
Emphasizing that all goalkeepers in the Super League are good, Onurcan Piri said, “I don’t want to focus on one person and take what he does. Of course, there are many goalkeepers, such as Rüştü from the past. Especially local goalkeepers. I said it in another interview before. The important thing is to give this chance to the Turks, especially the local goalkeepers, and they all make good use of it, as all Turkey sees, and makes us all proud,” he said.
“GOALTENDERS ARE NOW IMPORTANT AS MODERN FOOTBALL IN TODAY’S FOOTBALL”
Onurcan Piri stated that he very much wanted to set up a game from behind and that he was working on this. “In today’s football, goalkeepers are very important as modern football. While we used to say a tactic before, for example, four four and two, now one four four two is said. This is also very important to us. There is a lot of responsibility. Yes, there was such a position in the last match. I actually pushed the ball away. While returning to the pen, I suddenly saw that the goalkeeper threw the ball into the corner. Of course, it was a good position for me,” he said.
“Hopefully, that chance will come to me at the level of a national team”
Speaking about the jersey competition in the A National Football Team, Onurcan Piri said, “The more local goalkeepers play, the more valuable they play, they all play well and I am very happy as a goalkeeper. He has a dream, I have a dream before, I have sweated the national jersey in the lower age groups, I hope that luck will come to me at the A National Team level. There are many more good goalkeepers such as Altay, Uğurcan, Sinan Bolat and Ersin, who can not be called to the national team right now that there are ten goalkeepers. I hope it will continue in this way, but as I said, in order for this to continue, I think that local goalkeepers should be given a chance in other positions, because we see, we all watch, we live and it makes us all happy. myself,” he said.
Onurcan Piri stated that the 25-day Erzurum camp went very well and said: “The camp was good because we have been here for three years. Erzurum is a place we have already become accustomed to. We are happy to be here, the hospitality field conditions and the facility conditions are at a very high level. Good luck to us too. “We became champions when we came in the first year. We went out with the goal of being permanent in the Super League in the second year, we became permanent. I hope this year, we will increase our goals and make everyone happy by fulfilling our responsibilities to our own emblem and our fans,” he said.