Mehmet Büyükekşi, President of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF), visited Gençlerbirliği Club.
Büyükeşi met with Gençlerbirliği Club President Niyazi Akdaş and board members within the scope of the Academy Project.
Making a statement after the visit at Beştepe İlhan Cavcav Facilities, Büyükekşi stated that Gençlerbirliği is an important club that has competed in the Super League for years, and said, “Our President mentioned that there are approximately 2 thousand 500 players in the infrastructure and 200 players in the academy. This is exactly what we want, in fact. “Our work with Double Pass has now started in the Super League. Then we will do academy work with 1st league clubs.” he said.
Emphasizing that they will demand at least three field conditions for academies from the clubs, Büyükekşi said, “We want to make a new attack. We will make the facilities mandatory for our clubs. We will apply a certain curriculum with Double Pass. If we bring the same application to all our clubs, the quality of football will increase. Gençlerbirliği, in this business. It is a very good example since it started years ago. We will give our best support.” used the phrases.
Reminding that they first visited MKE Ankaragücü today, Büyükekşi added that after Gençlerbirliği, they will also visit Ankara Keçiörengücü and the capital’s clubs in the TFF 2nd League.
Gençlerbirliği Club President Niyazi Akdaş thanked Büyükekşi for his visit and said, “We made evaluations about today’s football and referees. We presented some issues to him. We will tour our infrastructure facilities and show how much importance Gençlerbirliği attaches to infrastructure.” expressed an opinion.