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Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Until last Saturday, the coach of Besiktas, the third most successful club in Turkey, published a farewell message on Tuesday in which he regrets not having had more time to form “a team with enormous potential.”
“Although I am sad and disappointed to leave so soon after becoming coach of Besiktas, I believe that It is important to recognize the many positive aspects that I have experienced working in Türkiye,” Van Bronckhorst wrote on Instagram.
It arrived in June
The Dutchman, a Barcelona player between 2003 and 2007, He signed as coach of Besiktas in June this year, but last Saturday in a brief statement the club reported the termination of the contract “by mutual agreement.”
The team is in low hours after six wins, four draws and three losses in the first 13 games of the Turkish Super League, which has relegated it to fifth place13 points behind the leader, Galatasaray, and 10 behind the second, Fenerbahçe, their great rivals.
The Super Cup won with Galatasaray’s hand
In his message, Van Bronckhorst recalls “the feeling after winning the Turkish Super Cup” (against Galatasaray with a 5-0) as one of his “most appreciated successes” in football.
“I have to recognize the hard work of my players and assistants. If they had allowed me more time, I think I could have developed and strengthened a team with enormous potential. Please keep working, you are a fantastic group,” the coach wrote.
He admitted that “football is a business in which results count” and that “winning is everything”, but he stressed that “The future course of a club is not determined by a single person on the bench.”
The crisis reaches the presidency
The Besiktas crisis led on Wednesday of last week to the resignation of its president, Hasan Arat, temporarily replaced by his deputy, Hüseyin Yücel, amid tension caused by resignations of senior officials the previous day.
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This Wednesday, the club announced an extraordinary meeting for December 22 in which a new president will be elected, with a second round of voting on the 29th of this month if in the first there is no absolute majority for any candidate.
