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El Tabei Confuses Minds

Date: 8-5-2006
Wrote: EP's reporter in Turkey Ali Avci

Egyptian centre back Beshir El Tabei was the talk of the Turkish press which criticized the Egyptian after his controversial reaction when his side scored the equalizer versus Denizlispor.



Beshir puts hands on head after his team scored!

Turkish football league came to the end, however, there is still a super title challenge between teams in the top and bottom places. Fenerbahce and Galatasaray are racing for the Championship as Ahmed Hassan’s Besiktas won the Turkish Cup.

Table as of 7-5-2006:

1.F.Bahçe 33 25 5 3 89 33 80
2.G.Saray 33 25 5 3 79 34 80
3.Trabzon 33 15 7 11 50 40 52
4.Be?ikta? 33 14 9 10 50 38 51
5.Kayserispor 33 15 6 12 59 39 51
6.G.Birli?i 33 14 9 10 46 36 51
7.Konya 33 12 9 12 39 43 45
8.Sivasspor 33 9 13 11 31 43 40
9.Erciyes 33 9 13 11 36 46 40
10.V.Manisa 33 11 6 16 52 61 39
11.A.Gücü 33 10 9 14 42 45 39
12.Ç.Rize 33 9 11 13 32 43 38
13.G.Antep 33 9 10 14 33 50 37
14.Denizli 33 9 9 15 40 49 36
15.B.?. Ankara 33 8 12 13 43 51 36
16.Malatya 33 9 9 15 34 49 36
17.Samsun 33 8 9 16 44 62 33
18.D.Bak?r 33 8 5 20 31 68 29


In the last week, five teams are living the relegation danger as Rize, Gaziantep, Denizli, Ankaraspor and Malatya. Samsun and Diyarbakir are certainly relegated to the second division and the third team will be determined in this weekend.


Ankaragucu (Belal) was also in the danger zone but they escaped relegation with the goal of Ahmed Belal. El Saka’s Konya are in good position in the middle of the table while Ayman’s Gencler are still challenging for the UEFA Cup place against Trabzonspor and Kayseri.

But the most important news is coming from Rizespor’s Egyptian defender Beshir El Tabei. The Egyptian player caused alot of controversy after his meaningful action in the match against Denizli.

Denizli had to win the match to continue their hopes for staying in the Super League. They faced Rizespor and won the match 1-2. The interesting thing that Beshir fired the speculations of rigging in the match. Egyptian defender made a foul against Denizli's player Oliveria and the refree awarded penalty kick for Denizli, from which they scored the second. That was a normal action maybe but Beshir El Tabei did another action after his team-mate Unal’s goal! Rize scored the goal and made the score 1-2. But Beshir put his hands on his head and made an action which showed him worry. The cameras caught Beshir’s unhapinness after his team scored.

Media commentors talked about Beshir's action and Turkish media wrote this speculation and pointed the action of Egyptian after the goal and the behaviour in his penalty.

Rizespor has a relegation danger but Beshir’s after goal action fired the unwanted talkings in the league challenge. Rize Chairman told the press that they believe Beshir and they see him as an important member of the team. Beshir told the press that media is looking from the wrong place and he is worried about this. He defended his action as a normal action after he couldnt believe the goodness of their goal…

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