Today, I want to tell something about the match to be played
tomorrow(12.03.2013). It is a Champions League the last 16 match. The team
winning this match will have the right to join the quarter finals, and then
this match gains a great importance. What is the actual importance of this
match? Popularity? Fans? Money? Or all of them? All of these reasons are true
reasons. We can also add rivalry to these ones. But why the teams want these
things? All football teams have footballers to play football between each
other. We can say that they need to pay the footballers if they want to play
because the footballers want to eat, wear something, date with girls etc. they
are all human beings. If a team has to pay the salaries, it needs money. If it
needs money, it needs fans. If it needs fans to make money, it needs to be
popular. Here comes the question: how can they be popular? To be popular, they
should win football matches. They do not only need to win national matches but
also need to win world games like UEFA Champions
League and UEFA Europa League. The match I want to tell about is a UEFA
Champions League game, too. The game will be played between a German team ‘FC
Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e.V’ and a Turkish team ‘GALATASARAY SK.’ The first
game between two teams ended with a draw. But because the first match was in
Turkey, Galatasaray is handicapped now. If the second match ends with a 0:0
draw, the German team will join the quarters. But if there is again 1:1 draw,
the game will go on two 15 minutes. Now, let’s talk a little about chances of
two teams. Firstly, the German team beated a very successful German team Ballspiel-Verein Borussia 1909 e. V. Dortmund, shortly
BVB, last week as far as I remember. It seems that it gains its power again. On
the other hand, the Turkish team lost a very important game in its league. But it
has a trump card: Didier Yves Drogba Tébily and Wesley Sneijder.
These two new transfers will be the wonderwall of Galatasaray SK, two important
weapons of F. Terim. On the other hand, the German team has an injury on the center
forward position: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. This injury is a handicap of the German
team. But when thinking all of these things, we cannot know what will happen. As
Fatih Terim said ‘It’s the football, that’s the football, everything is
something happened.’
