Florya Metin Oktay Facilities
Florya Metin Oktay Facilities (), is the training ground and academy base of the Turkish football club Galatasaray SK. The Florya training camp land was brought during the presidency of Suphi Batur, built and opened during Professor Ali Uras presidency and was expanded and improved during both Ali Tanriyar and Alp Yalman presidencies. It was opened on August 1, 1981. Located in Florya, Istanbul and named after the club's legendary goalscorer Metin Oktay, the sports complex covers an area of . It is used for first team and youth team training and matches, as well as by many of the other sports teams at the club, including those for basketball and volleyball. Facility is fully operational. In 2025, the facilities are expected to move to the new training facilities in Kemerburgaz. List of Facilities * Central administration building *Camp building *4 full course grass pitches *Junior team facility *Indoor sports facility *Galatasaray football school *Galatasaray hospital *Bask ...
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Florya Metin Oktay
Florya is a quarter () belonging to the Bakırköy district of the greater Istanbul, Turkey. It is located along Marmara Sea, and borders to the northeast the neighborhood of Yeşilköy, to the northwest that of Küçükçekmece. Its residents are relatively affluent. Florya has two stations along the Marmaray, Marmaray Commuter Line: Florya railway station, Florya and Florya Akvaryum. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and the first president of Turkey, used to spend his free time in his Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion swimming and enjoying the beautiful sandy beach. Name Florya's name, according to the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine scholar Michael Psellos, who found it cited in an imperial Chrysobull, comes from the Greek Language, Greek word "Phlorion".Janin (1964), p. 414 It is possibly derived from a certain Florus, who lived in this neighborhood during the early Byzantine age. Until the 1920s the Ottoman name was "Fülürye". One part of the neighborhood is also called ''Şen ...
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