VIDEO. Lunar scene during the Turkish Super Cup: Fenerbahçe players leave the pitch after three minutes and withdraw

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Les joueurs de Fenerbahçe ont quitté la pelouse après trois minutes lors de la Supercoupe de Turquie face à Galatasaray dimanche 7 avril pour dénoncer ce qu’ils considèrent comme des injustices à l’égard de leur club.

The management of the Istanbul club had decided, for the same reasons, to start eleven young people from its under-19 team for this match. After conceding a goal in the first minute of play, the players left the pitch, ending the match.

"It is time for the clocks of Turkish football to be reset to zero", declared Fenerbahçe president Ali Koç during a press conference organized before the meeting, in Sanliurfa (southeast).

Claiming that too many championship titles have "escaped" at Fenerbahçe in a dubious manner, Ali Koç denounced the existence of a "occult network in Turkish football for years" who, he asserts, "decides on the course of the championship through the intermediary of the referees".

A final already postponed

Before the match, Fenerbahçe had requested that a foreign referee officiate the Super Cup, and had also requested its postponement due to the quarter-final of the Europa Conference League which it is due to play on Thursday against Olympiakos.

The Turkish Football Federation, which imposed a match suspension on Wednesday on two Fenerbahçe players after violence occurred during a pitch invasion in Trabzon following the match ;a championship match, rejected both requests. Galatasaray, for its part, had fielded its first team.

The Turkish Super Cup was initially scheduled for December 29 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but the meeting was postponed at the last minute, the Saudi organizers having refused to allow the players to wear jerseys with political slogans.

The two teams wanted to warm up with jerseys bearing the image of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, to celebrate the centenary of the Turkish Republic.< /p>