The veteran footballer and coach Riza Calimbaythe legend of Turkish football in the 1980s and 1990s, has left his position as coach of Besiktas After just six weeks, the club announced this Friday Istanbul.
“As a result of the meeting held after the match Alanyasporour board of directors decided to separate us from our coach, Riza Calimbay“said a statement on the club’s website.
He Besiktas lost yesterday 1-3 at home Alanyaspora relatively modest team, which spent several weeks in the last three places in Super League turkish
Calimbay60 years old, is a midfielder for Besiktas for 16 years, from 1980 to 1996, was part of the national team and became one of the most admired players of Turkish fans, nicknamed “the atomic ant”.
After a brief coaching stint at the club in 2005, Calimbay took office on November 10, replaced the youth Burak Yilmaz, who had only been in the position for a month, replaced the veteran Senol Güneswhich lasted a year.
He then admitted that the team was “not in good shape”, and managed to move it from fifth to third place in Super Leaguebut two weeks ago it fell back to fifth, 17 points behind its two historic rivals, the Fenerbahçe and the Galatasaray.
Calimbay He has worked since 2001 as a coach for 13 different Turkish clubs, almost all of them from Super League.
He Besiktaswhich is considered the third most successful club in the country, has changed coaches five times in the past two years, and went from winning the 2020-2021 Super League to finishing sixth last year.
Source: La Verdad
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