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Southgate: Tuncay Will Light Up Euro

admin — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:26:59 +0000

Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate is confident that Tuncay Sanli will be a household name by the time the final whistle is blown on Euro 2008.The 26-year-old certainly doesn’t lack for star power in his native Turkey, or in Boro for that matter, but his name still doesn’t carry much weight on the international level.

Tuncay joined Middlesbrough on a free transfer from Fenerbahce last summer, and after taking time to adjust to the pace and physical demands of English Premier League football, began to flourish with Boro.

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Sunderland:3 - Middlesbrough:2

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:11:50 +0000

Substitute Daryl Murphy ensured Sunderland will play in next season’s Barclays Premier League with a last-gasp winner against Middlesbrough.

The game looked to be heading for a draw - which would not have been the worst result for either side - when Boro’s record signing Afonso Alves fired home a 73rd-minute equaliser.

The Teessiders had got off to the perfect start when Tuncay Sanli gave them a fourth-minute lead, but Danny Higginbotham equalised within two minutes as a compelling contest which neither side could afford to lose ebbed and flowed in front of 45,059 nervous spectators.

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Tuncay makes Boro’s day against Derby

admin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:51:43 +0000

Turkish striker Tuncay Sanli made Middlesbrough’s day with the solitary goal in the home side’s defeat of Premier League basement dwellers Derby on Saturday.

The win eased Boro’s relegation fears - they’re now sitting 12th on 34 points, and left Derby rooted at the bottom of the table with just 10 points from their 31 games played.

Boro almost took the lead in the seventh minute through defender David Wheater, whose performances this season earned him a call-up to Fabio Cappello’s England squad earlier this week.

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REDSQUARE: Star Quality!

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:14:26 +0000

ON the day that Tuncay Sanli signed for Boro, 60 per cent of the visitors to the official website were from Turkey.That alone should have given some indication of the kind of player the club were getting. Thousands of Fenerbahce Fans switched allegiance to Boro as they followed their favourite player to his new English club.

After a slow start to life in the Barclays Premier League Tuncay has now started to shine and show why he is the David Beckham of Turkish football.

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Tuncay helps Boro thrash Pompey

admin — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:17:54 +0000

Tuncay Sanli’s goal was good enough to give Middlesbrough a 1-0 win away to Portsmouth as the home side failed to score at Fratton Park for the sixth straight Premier League match.Former Pompey favourite Gary O’Neil returned to haunt his old club by setting up Sanli’s 20th minute winner as Boro moved up the table and away from the relegation zone. Portsmouth pressed for an equaliser and almost got one after the break but Nwankwo Kanu hit the post from five yards out.

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Papers Bow To King Tuncay

admin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:19:29 +0000

The Press have been falling over themselves to heap praise on Tuncay after his wonder winner at Derby. Read on for our full round up.News of the World: Boro’s victory over Arsenal has certainly improved the self-belief in Southgate’s squad and they could easily have won by a bigger margin and further dented Derby’s already comical goal difference.

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