"How Soccer started in Turkey!
We once look again back at the history of soccer. Sometimes when football and footballers are used which means soccer, its just the United States has to be different.=) Like not using the metric system, etc. As you may know it started in England and quickly spread across Europe. The History of Turkish soccer is characterized by the outspread of soccer during the late 19th, early 20th centuries. But the Ottoman Empire did not allow organized soccer clubs and competitions to operate, which is why modern soccer in Turkey started in 1875 by Englishmen in Thessaloniki, which is Greek’s second largest city followed by Athens. Soccer was also known to have been played in Izmir in 1877. The first club was FC Smyrna from Izmir."
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