Gündüz Tekin Onay (31 May 1942 in

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– 4 January 2008 in

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) was a Turkish footballer and

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who also trained

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club Beşiktaş between 1976 and 1977. He is known for his success in discovering starlets and for his modesty. Additionally, he was the author of a system to explore and breed young talents for Turkish football.

Career

He had begun his professional career in 1957 as a player of

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. Respectively he played for Bursa Akınspor,

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, Muhafızgücü,

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and Kastamonuspor beside National Army Football. He began to manage the teams when he was 26 with coaching Kastamonuspor in 1968. Afterward, he became the assistant of Abdullah Gegiç for

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in 1969. He maintained this duty until 1972 as an employer of TFF. Onay entered

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as the coach of

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at the age of 30. He worked in numerous teams for non-stop 21 years, which is record in Turkish football history as total of 462 matches. He coached successively Zonguldakspor, Beşiktaş,

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, Mersin İdmanyurdu, Ankaragücü,

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, Gençlerbirliği,

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alongside

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when the teams were competing in Division 2. He was also chairman of Adanaspor. After ending his managerial career, he contributed the Turkish football in different cases, including the top-adviser function of TFF as well as general co-ordinator of the Researching, Planning, Education and improvement Department (ARPEG). During his task, he created ''Van Football Village Project'', which aimed to gather and train youngsters from different cities, and compose a synthesis of eastern and western Turkish football. After

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declared 2007 as Year of Rumi, he achieved ''the clemency and example behaviour'' prize by Turkish Football Coaches Association. Additionally in 2007, he was awarded the special ''Namık Sevik Prize'' after the 54th annual Sportsmen of the Year survey of daily newspaper '' Milliyet''. Onay died due to cancer during his treatment period. He was inferred on 5 January 2008 in

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in Istanbul. There were several sports persons at his funeral such as UEFA vice president Şenes Erzik, former TFF president

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manager

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chairman Mecnun Otyakmaz, and national footballer

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Miscellaneous

*Onay had typed various newspapers as sports columnist, besides he is the author of 14 books devoted football. *He was married and had one daughter and one son. His son Güntekin Onay, is a well known Turkish sports commentator who currently works for Turkish TV station

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References

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