"An upwardly mobile, 'crazy' young Turk
Ben Doherty
October 24, 2007
JOHN Ilhan learned perseverance early. As a 13-year-old he would walk four kilometres from his home in Jacana to his soccer club for training every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.
It was his first season. He was not picked for a single game all year. "I used to get disappointed," he once said of the experience, "but I still walked to training every week.""
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