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Galatasaray is the only team that has won the UEFA Cup without being beaten in a single match, and is ... notable for being the first team to win the competition after having been knocked out of the Champions League. In winning the UEFA Cup during season 1999/00, beating Arsenal of England on penalties, Galatasaray became the first Turkish club to win a European trophy. This honour was not achieved without controversy, as two supporters of Leeds United of England were slain by Galatasaray fans before the two clubs met in the Istanbul leg of the competition semifinal. However, Turkish authorities claim this incident had little to do with football.
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Galatasaray is one of only two teams to have won the UEFA Cup without being beaten in a single match and is ... the first team to win the competition after finishing third place in the Champions League group stage. In winning the UEFA Cup during the 1999-2000 season, beating Arsenal of England on penalties, Galatasaray became the first Turkish football club ever to win a European trophy. Galatasaray also holds the world record of most games won in a row at home (24 games in a row: 13 May 2001 - 8 December 2002).
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In 1996 werd clubicoon Fatih Terim, die zijn hele leven lang voor Galatasaray had gespeeld, als trainer aangesteld. In 4 jaar werd Galatasaray omgetoverd tot een grootmacht en versloeg het clubs als Juventus, AC Milan en Real Madrid. In 2000 zorgde Galatasaray voor een mijlpaal voor het Turkse voetbal door als eerste Turkse club een Europese hoofdprijs te winnen. In dat jaar won het immers de UEFA Cup ten koste van Arsenal FC. Een aantal maanden later werd ook de Super Cup gewonnen door een 2-1 overwinning op Real Madrid.
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Galatasaray played its first years in different fields, since there were not any stadiums in Istanbul. In 1921, the first stadium, Taksim Stadium opened.[30] Galatasaray played there until 1940. When historic Taksim Stadium was demolished, Galatasaray decided to build a large, modern stadium. Due to difficulties stemming from World War II, construction was delayed for over two decades. In this period, they played in İnönü Stadium.
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From a tactical viewpoint, Galatasaray loves to lay siege to the opponents goal and start taking shots at will. Fenerbahce on the other hand is a counter attack team. It’ll be pretty interesting to see what will happen this Saturday. Feldamp has told his boys to not be afraid of the fanatical Fenerbahce fans and to block out curses they may hear. He has ... given them a 30 minutes training exercise to practice ducking from the cell phone batteries and water bottles that will be thrown at them from the stands.
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The first emblem of Galatasaray was drawn by Sevki Ege, student number 333. This emblem was an eagle with stretching wings and with a ball in his mouth. "Eagle" was one of the emblems which Galatasaray club considered. However the name "eagle" wasn't accepted and ... the eagle emblem was forgotten. Later on today's GS emblem was born and accepted.
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