"#IntercontinentalDarby"... More than just a Darby!
The “Istanbul Darby” was called the Continental Darby because of the location of the two teams in the city that lies on both sides of the “Bosphorus” Strait along the continents of Europe and Asia 🗺, where Galatasaray was established in 1905 on the European side, while Fenerbahçe was founded in 1907 on the Asian side.
In the past, Galatasaray (the lions) represented the wealthy class, while Fenerbahçe (the Canaries) was considered the people's team. of other clubs.
Galatasaray is the most popular club in Turkey with about 27 million fans, representing 33% of the football fans there, and after it comes # Fenerbahçe in second place with about 25 million fans, representing 31% of football followers, ahead of Besiktas club with 15 million fans, representing 18%. Of the followers of the round in Anatolia, and if Galatasaray excels in the number of titles, then Fenerbahçe is the best in the derby, where the two teams met within the league on 130 occasions. The “Fener” won 52 confrontations compared to 35 for “Gala”, and in all confrontations within All competitions, old and new, official and friendly, recognized and otherwise, met the two Istanbul giants in 396 full matches, Fenerbahçe won 148 matches, compared to 125 victories for "Simbom".
The madness of this derby was embodied in the November 2021 meeting that # Fenerbahçe won at the fatal time. On that day, the Galatasaray fans raised a television in which they portrayed a supporter of Fenerbahce as a participant in the Squid Game No. 1907, and he was afraid of death in front of the masked men in red clothes in the manner of the famous "Korean series". And after the end of the match for the “Canaries”, with a score of 2-1, with a goal in D90 + 4, the response came from the official “Fener” account with the phrase: “The player’s number 1905 has been deleted,” referring to the date of the founding of “Galatasaray”, with the famous puppet song. In the game: "무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다", or Mugunghwa Kkochi Pieot Seumnida (Latin letters), they changed the color of the frightened player's clothing to red and the color of the "Masked Killers" to blue.
This was the end of the Istanbul derby in that meeting, and the one after that, with the victory of the Asian side over the European side. Will the Turkish league leader take revenge today against his runner-up and kill two birds with one stone? , Transported