The Spanish footballer adds to his incredible record by winning the Turkish Super League with Galatasaray
The Istanbul club picked up its 23rd championship this Tuesday, with one day to go, after a four-year drought
One World Cup, one Euro Cup, one Champions League, two Europa Leagues, two FA Cups, one Copa del Rey, one Community Shield and one EFL Cup. This was the spectacular winners by Juan Mata in his long career as a footballer until this Tuesday.
A career to which the 35-year-old Spanish midfielder didn’t want to say goodbye without giving the finishing touch with one of the few titles left for him to win: a Scudetto. And, after standing up to him in Valencia, London and Manchester, he finally made it in his first year in Türkiyeafter leaving behind eleven seasons in the Premier League and four in La Liga.
Galatasaray beat Ankaragücü last Tuesday 1-4 and, one game from the end of the season, raises the Scudetto after four years of droughtfrom the 2018/2019 season.
A goal that the Ottoman team has achieved thanks, in large part, to to the ‘old rockers’. Footballers with a proven European past like the Uruguayans Fernando Musler AND Luca Torreirathe French Leo Dubois AND gomisPortuguese Sergio Oliveirathe Belgian dry mertens or possess John killwhich contributed its granite with three goalsthey were part of a pattern led, without a doubt, by Mauro Icardi.
scoring machine
the Argentine footballer joined Galatasaray on loan from Paris Saint-Germain The last summer. A loan that could not have been more productive for those of Okan Burukwho have found the marker they needed in the international albiceleste, as attested by the twenty-one goals scored by Icardi in 23 games played20 of which as owner (surpassed only by Fenerbahçe’s Ecuadorian striker Enner Valencia with 29 goals).
Some figures that brought the entity of Istanbul to The Turkish Super League number 23 in its historybeing the most successful team in the country.