Fatih Terim has confirmed that he is likely to return to club management after the heartbreaking end to Turkey's roller-coaster UEFA EURO 2008™ campaign against Germany.
Terim has now led Turkey to two major tournaments. They departed EURO '96™ with no points gained and no goals scored, but will leave Switzerland and Austria with heads held high and the hearts of neutrals after their heroic fightbacks against Switzerland, Czech Republic and Croatia. Even in this semi-final – Turkey's first – they levelled the scores at 2-2 with four minutes left only to concede a Philipp Lahm goal. Terim, enticed back in 2005 after coaching Galatasaray AS, ACF Fiorentina and AC Milan, said of his position: "Most probably after speaking to the [Turkish Football Association] president and the players I will choose to say: 'This is what I have done and I hope whoever comes later on will work to make this team champions.' I have already said I would not work in Turkey and I keep my promises so I will most probably go and work abroad. But it would not be proper for me to make any specific declarations now without speaking to the president, so let's leave it to the coming days."
What is certain is that, as Terim said on the eve of the game, "no one will forget" what his team did in this tournament. Now they have made their final contribution, Terim mused: "We have done something that Turkey haven't been able to do in the last 70 or 80 years. The players should not feel bad. Yes they lost, of course we are out, but it was our 47th day together, and it is not easy to work when everyone else is on holiday. They have been here to serve their country and I told them I was proud of them, what they did is important and wished them every success in the future."
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