Yilmaz, captain of the Turkish national team, announced his retirement from the Turkish national team after losing in the European playoff against Portugal 3-1 and in which the striker The Turkish missed a penalty in the last 10 minutes that would have tied it 2-2.
Portugal fulfilled their duties to beat the Turkish team by 3 goals to 1 and they will receive in Porto the surprising team of North Macedonia that has just eliminated Italy, the current European champions in a duel that was resolved at the minute 92′ of commitment.
Burak Yilmaz played 77 matches as a player of the highest category team in which he scored 14 goals. The Turk stated that he got up the next day imagining that he had scored the equalizer against Portugal.
“I think I’m going to wake up every night for the rest of my life thinking I scored that penalty”, Yilmaz declared.
“It was my last match with the Turkish jersey”, declared the Turkish captain before the press at the end of the match, appearing “sad” to end his international career.
Yilmaz, who wore the colors of the three big Istanbul clubs, Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray, participated with Turkey in the European Championships in 2016 and 2020. He currently plays for Lille in France, a team with which he was champion of Ligue 1 in the season of 2020-2020.
With the first matches of the European repechage defined, only one commitment will remain to be determined due to the war between Ukraine and Russia that are keeping the confrontation between Scotland and the Ukrainian team on hold.
The road to Qatar 2022 already has one step less after the first games of the playoffs and everything will be defined next Tuesday to meet the first qualifiers for the World Cup, in addition, they will be meeting their rivals in the group stage after the draw that will take place on April 1 .
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