Emin Bülent Serdaroğlu

Emin Bülent Serdaroğlu

Personal information
Full name	Emin Bülent Serdaroğlu
Date of birth	1886
Place of birth	Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Date of death	28 November 1942(1942-11-28) (aged 56)
Place of death	Istanbul, Turkey
Position(s)	Left wingback
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1905–1914	Galatasaray
Managerial career
1906–1907	Galatasaray
1911–1914	Galatasaray
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Emin Bülent Serdaroğlu (1886 – 28 November 1942) was a Turkish footballer, poet, and one of the founders of Galatasaray. He spent the entirety of his career with his hometown club. His grandfather was Serdar-ı Ekrem Ömer Pasha and his father was Ömer Muzaffer Bey. He lost his mother during childhood. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1905 and became the first Turkish captain of Galatasaray SK.^[1][2][3]

As a poet, he was a pioneer of the Fecr-i Âtî ("Dawn of the Future") movement, one of three movements of early Turkish literature. His poems Kin (1910) and Hisarlara Karşı are especially well known.

Honours

As player

Galatasaray SK

• Istanbul Football League: 1908–09, 1909–10, 1910–11

References

1. NTVMSNBC Website (in Turkish)
2. Hurriyet Newspaper Archive (in Turkish)
3. Bugün Newspaper Archive (in Turkish) Archived 2011-08-27 at the Wayback Machine