Coach of Kayserispor since the start of 2024, Burak Yilmaz resigned this Monday, following a heavy setback against Besiktas (0-3).
At the start of the year, Burak Yilmaz took charge of the Kayserispor team to try to keep it in the Süper Lig, the first division of Turkish football. Having managed to achieve this objective, he logically continued his path and thus began the 2024-2025 season with ambition, despite the recruitment ban imposed on his club this summer. However, everything did not go as planned. Seventeenth in the championship, the Turkish team has not won once in its first six meetings, collecting only three points thanks to three draws. This Monday, she was slapped by Besiktas in front of her audience (0-3) and Burak Yilmaz immediately announced his resignation at a press conference.
“We had to win. There are no excuses, no excuses. We really needed to succeed. They entrusted me with this honorable task last year and we accomplished it, leaving our team in the first division. Praise be to God. At the start of this season, I told myself that ‘if there is a transfer penalty, I will not give up’. I love this city. Believe it or not. I loved these people, my president, my deputy, our supporterscite Burak Yilmaz. Now the coach must change. We did everything. We work, we don’t sleep, we change the pressure, we change the game plan, we fight, we kiss, it doesn’t change. Now there is only one thing left to do, and that is to leave. This is probably the most useful thing I can do. Kayserispor needs a change of blood, to become what it was again, a team with a spark. This is why I am resigning from today. If I think about Kayserispor, if I like these players, I have to stop today”launched the Turkish technician, former Mastiff, to the media at the final whistle.
Having managed to keep the club in the Süper Lig at the end of a perilous 2023-2024 financial year, Burak Yilmaz resigned with a setback, the ninth out of the twenty-two matches he started on the bench. His record only shows three victories, too few to hope for better. At 39 years old, he is nevertheless only at the beginning of his career as a technician and must still continue his progress in the field. It remains to be determined where this will take him from now on.
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