Kalede 1 Başına

Sunay Akin

“I was on the floor and my palms were burning like I was holding hot coals. I saved the shot that came to my right with a reflex that I still can’t understand. At that moment Lefter’s word was heard: ‘Okay, we found it! Sunay will go to the goal.’” Sunay Akın was only 10 years old when he recovered Lefter’s shot. After the goalkeeper takes off his sweater and picks up the pen, this time the goalkeeper begins to collect stories. Who enters these stories… Our Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar; Berlin tiger Turgay Şener and famous Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin, who participated in his jubilee match; Şenol Güneş, who went to the training with miners’ gloves sent by coal workers from Zonguldak; Abidin Dino’s nephew, goalkeeper Sabri Dino, who opened the door to Yaşar Kemal’s first house in Istanbul; Yilmaz Vural, the groom who welcomed the shot of the bride at the wedding invitation; Varol Ürkmez, one of our most colorful goalkeepers, and Baba Hakkı, who extended his hand to him, the goalkeeper in Nâzım Hikmet’s poem; Albert Camus; Pavarotti and many others wear this jersey. They always carry the number 1 on their back…