Five Canaries Named to Milli Takım For Spain Matches

Milli Takım Coach Fatih Terim named his squad for the team's upcoming World Cup qualifiers earlier today. The team will face European champions Spain twice in the coming weeks in hopes of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Five Fenerbahçe footballers were named to the roster for the upcoming games.

Goalkeeper Volkan Demirel, defender Gökhan Gönül, midfielders Colin Kazım-Richards and Emre Belözoğlu, as well as striker Semih Şentürk were all named to the Turkish National Team squad. Türkiye will take on Spain on March 28 and again on April 1. The full roster for the matches is as follows:

Goalkeepers: Volkan Demirel (Fenerbahçe), Rüştü Reçber (Beşiktaş), Ufuk Ceylan (Manisaspor)

Defenders: Gökhan Gönül (Fenerbahçe), Sabri Sarıoğlu, Emre Aşık, Hakan Kadir Balta (Galatasaray), Sedat Bayrak (Sivasspor), İbrahim Kaş (Getafe), Eren Güngör (Kayserispor), İbrahim Üzülmez (Beşiktaş)

Midfielders: Hamit Altıntop (Bayern Münich), Colin Kazım-Richards, Emre Belözoğlu (Fenerbahçe), Ayhan Akman, Arda Turan (Galatasaray), Mehmet Aurelio (Real Betis), Nuri Şahin (Borussia Dortmund), Mevlüt Erdinç (Sochaux), Tuncay Şanlı (Middlesbrough)

Forwards: Nihat Kahveci (Villarreal), Batuhan Karadeniz (Eskişehirspor), Semih Şentürk (Fenerbahçe), Gökhan Ünal (Trabzonspor), Sercan Yıldırım (Bursaspor)