Karşıyaka, crucial model of basketball that has represented Izmir within the Tremendous League and Europe for years, parted methods with coach Ufuk Sarıca, the image of the crew, through the troubled interval after shedding its title sponsor of 26 years.
After shedding its sponsor in the beginning of the season, which began ambitiously with the objective of finalizing the Champions League, the Greens have barely been in a position to pay the crew's salaries for months, and regardless of depositing cash to foreigners who issued warnings by way of FIBA with the help of the neighborhood final week, they first misplaced McCollum, Webb, Boutsiele and Jefferson, after which their captain Kenan Sipahi. The ten-year interval of Ufuk Sarıca within the Reds is over.
Ufuk Sarıca, who introduced historic success to the Inexperienced-Reds crew, for which he performed within the 2001-2002 season in his basketball profession, got here as a coach for the primary time in 2012, met with the administration through the course of on the membership and mentioned goodbye by mutual settlement.
Sarıca additionally met with Yaşar Holding Chairman Feyhan Yaşar, who supported the membership regardless of leaving the sponsorship, and left with the crew for the final time within the Promitheas Patras match within the Champions League.
Sarıca: “I’m ending my obligation”
Sarıca, within the press convention held after the 81-77 defeat towards Greece's Promitheas Patras crew within the first match of the Basketball Champions League play-in stage, mentioned that they’d many shortcomings and that they have been preventing with a restricted squad.
Stating that they’d introduced them to a degree the place they might win towards a powerful opponent, however misplaced on the final second, Sarıca mentioned:
“I congratulate our opponent, however I additionally thank my gamers for his or her power as we speak. However the truth is, I want to categorical with remorse that on the final level, because of the circumstances and circumstances of our membership, I’ve resigned from the place of head coach, which I’ve been doing with nice honor and pleasure for about 5 years, after assembly with the membership administration, by making a mutual resolution and mutually agreeing.” “I’m ending my obligation as we speak.”
3 large trophies with Sarıca
Ufuk Sarıca, who first coached Karşıyaka between 2012 and 2016, led the crew to the Eurochallenge Cup last for the primary time in Europe in 2013, the Turkish Cup for the primary time in 2014, then the Presidential Cup and the Tremendous League in 2015. received the championship.
Karşıyaka took half within the EuroLeague for the primary time in Europe within the 2015-2016 season below the administration of Ufuk Sarıca.
Sarıca, who left the green-reds in 2016 and returned in 2019 after a 3-season break, led his crew to 2 finals within the Champions League in 2021 and within the Tremendous League in 2023.
Sarıca, whose followers had beforehand chanted “Prime Minister”, was spending his tenth season on the helm of Karşıyaka.
