Sergen Yalçın - Football Genius

It was almost 20 years ago when it dawned on Turkish football that they might just be on to something, that they possibly had it within themselves to have something more than just another player with the traditional Turkish sporting traits of fierce partisanship and almost spiritual passion.

Sergen Yalçın had a dream of a left foot and as his proficiency from free-kicks proves, one of the sweetest left foots in the history of football. He was a player of exceptional technique with a touch to envy and wonderful passing skills so visionary they might have been delivered by Mystic Meg. His skill and creativity enabled him to skip past opponents without moving faster then a jogger. Sergen Yalçın was capable of turning on the style and bamboozling the most resilient defence almost at will.

For a while Sergen's world revolved exclusively and apologetically around Sergen. He is the personification of indolent arrogance, arguably the most gifted footballer of his generation and yet one who, for several years, unashamedly placed his personal ambition above the greater needs of the many. He would skip trainings, enjoy the night-life and gamble (his special interest was in horse-racing, owning several racehorses). He had a reputation as a playboy, possessing a hair-trigger temper which often got him into trouble, especially with childish public pronouncements. Sergen was unable to offer anything more than a cursory defence when he was accused of allowing ego to eclipse reason during his formative years as a professional footballer.

When Barcelona and Bayern Munich invited him for contract talks, his response was "Why am I going to go there and talk to them? They should come and talk to me." But towards the end of his career, Sergen put his reputation of Turkish football's loose cannon or 'Infant Terrible' behind him, and finally started to fulfill some of his lost potential.

This is Sergen Yalçın, a pure footballing genius.

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[pirlobattousai]

WOW! The ball control is out of this world!! Hey Turkish fans would you consider him your best player ever or at least dribbler?

[210989]

@pirlobattousai: Joachim Low once said: "If Sergen took football seriously, he would've been the world's greatest." The football authorities say that he only fulfilled 10-40% of his potential. So we didn't even see half of what he could do. If there ever was a player to surpass Maradona, it was Sergen Yalcin.

[frenkyusuf]

muhammed imam el mehdi,

[737428]

Abi muhtesem tek kelimeyle..! Gozlerim dolu dolu izledim tam bir sergen fanatigiyim ama bunun kadar guzel bi video daha izlemedim.! Bu arada chelsea maci icin bok atan arkadasa soyluyorum chelsea macinda son 10 dk degil 70 dk sahada kalmistir.! ayrica sanirim okudugun yazilardan yola ciktin ama o sorulara verdigi cvplar tamamen dalga gecmek amacindadir onu anlayamadiysan yazik sana..!

[irvingadkins616]

This video is a favorite on Bahrain

[FireFleurelle]

@Mugla1989 hagi kurban olsun sergen'e bee.

[nyat12]

Great player, awesome skill and vision, but I was wondering what's the song in the beginning?

[Kral0053]

Türkiyede Gelmiş geçmiş en iyi iki topçu sergen yalçın ve hakan şükür dür...

[tiamarquez0]

This vid is popular on Sao Tome and Principe

[SmootieClafoutis]

What is the name of the song of the beginning ?

[nedmet]

@tunacino 3.40 taki gol Genclerbirligini 3-1 yendigimiz ama 8-0 Ankaragucu-GS maci sonucundan sonra averajla sampiyonlugu kacirdigimiz mactaki golu. Kapalidaydim o macta, mactan sonra aglamakli olmustum. Araba alisinda attigi gol Bursa maciydi, kafayla atmisti, yok hicbir kayitta, ilk zamanlariydi o zaman..

[tunacino]

3.40 araba alışını anlattıgı gol heralde, yer ıslaktı yatarak bi kapattım 90'a demişti :D