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Dev Adam HÜSEYİN ALP Kim? | Korkunç Görünüşün Altında Yatan Yumuşacık Bir Yürek... | MegaSinn | YouTubeToText
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To crush you to pieces B You may recognize him from
Orso or your father's children in the movie Tarkan Viking Blood
But he was
a giant man who grew up with pain. He had to
endure 32 days of unbearable pain so that he would stop growing, and
this man they inflicted pain on so that one day he would not grow taller would become an
indispensable member of the national team, the architect of championships with the hundreds of baskets he scored. When he
grew up, the pain would never end. In fact, on January 8,
1962, on the dinyakos nocom website, which tells the history of Türkiye's sports, they
made an entry about him like this: Türkiye's
tallest man became a cloakroom. This was the
title of a short news item in the inside pages of Milliyet Newspaper dated October 21, 1962. In the
Sivas-originated news, it was written that Hüseyin Al, Türkiye's tallest man at
2 meters 12 cm after Uzun Ömer,
became a 400-lira paid cloakroom at the municipality's tourist restaurant. Not
long after, on November 4, there
was another news item in the short news column of Milliyet Newspaper's sports page, this time:
Türkiye's tallest man in Sivas. The second tallest man, Hüseyin Alp, was
transferred to the Istanbul Technical University basketball team. The 2.15-meter-
tall Alp will be
arriving in our city in the coming days and
will be on the Technical University team this year. Indeed,
Indeed,
Hüseyin Alp arrived in Istanbul on November 10, 1962. As soon as he arrived, he
instantly became the most popular figure in our basketball community, where until
then there had been no other 2-meter-tall player except Tuncer Kener.
Even people who had no knowledge of basketball until then learned of the existence of such a sport thanks to him.
Now let's go back to the beginning and
listen to his story.
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His life adventure began on May 12, 1935. Because he was born weighing more than 4 kilos, it
was clear the day he was born that he would be a big child. His
early years in the village of Hamal in the Kangal district of Sivas were
no different from other children.
However, school would
not be so easy. In the book titled Jubilee, Hüseyin Alp recounted those
years and the years that followed as follows: There was
neither a
school building nor a teacher in our village. He would teach
lessons in the village room in front of the village instructor. We
hadn't even started, there were no chairs, and we would
sit in the village room on furs and cushions we'd brought from home. Notebooks were
considered the greatest luxury. No one at our school
had notebooks. We would try to write with a pencil on empty tobacco
packs, cigarette boxes, and wrapping paper.
paper.
That's how I studied. I completed primary school
this way.
I was the biggest and strongest among my peers. I
was also the best runner. As I got older, I
started to grow as tall as I could. Before I turned 18, I
was 2.04 meters tall. By the time I was eligible for military service, I
was 2.09 meters tall.
This rapid growth had left me weak and
anemic. I
felt I was wearing myself out day by day. I went down to Sivas and
consulted doctors. They examined them and they did.
Finally, they decided to send me to Istanbul.
I found myself in Gureba Hospital. In 1955, I was first put under observation. The
doctors said I had a growth spurt.
I stayed in the hospital for a full three months,
32 days of which were spent under electric therapy.
He gave an interview during the years when TRT was the only channel, and he told TRT
about the problems he experienced due to his height.
When I was in the village, was my height an
obstacle for my farmer? In Istanbul,
they subjected me to electric therapy for 32 days in 3 months. They
gave me electric shocks to prevent me from growing taller. My
belongings are special, including my bedstead, bed, shoes, and
even my underwear, all of which are special. This is of course expensive. If a
tailor can make a dress for me for 500 t, he
makes mine for 800. I have a 12-year athletic career.
However, my
wife has been a great contributor to my athletic career. My
small, and our training sessions are small. Even though I am tall,
we get along very well.
After his treatments, he returned to his village,
but his growth hasn't stopped. He
was involved in agriculture. That's why
doing hard work was tiring for him. He recounted what happened
next in his jubilee book as follows: My father,
a respected wrestler in the area, was
an understanding man. He
put 50 lira in my pocket with the money of the time and
sent me to Ankara. After his death, with the travel expenses,
hotel and food in Ankara,
this money dried up. The next
morning, with the last 150 kuruş in my pocket, I
drank a bowl of soup and headed to the municipality. I
asked for a job there, may God bless you. They gave me a
ticket inspector at the entrance of Gençlik Park.
In my free time, I would watch the kids playing basketball on the
open-air field next to the 19 Mayıs Stadium. I didn't
even know the name of the game they were playing. But
getting the ball into that high hoop seemed very easy to me.
None of the kids playing there had ever said to me, "
Come and play too." Thus, the
first enthusiasm that arose within me for the game of basketball I knew there
was stifled. Hüseyin Alp
had to return to his village again in 1960. He
got married and had a child that same year. It was
during this period that his fate would change. In
1962, when his father fell ill, he
took him to Sivas city center for treatment. Here is
how he recounted those days to TRT television: "
Sir, it was 1962, while I
was walking down the street, a friend came and tapped
me on the shoulder. My fellow countryman, you are basketball?" I
said, "No, I
am not a basketball player or anything." I don't know what basketball is or is it something to be eaten.
The man mocked me
and pointed to himself. This friend, Nusret, said, "This
friend is Nusret." Akça
said, "I'm going to make you a basketball player," and
our pictures were taken there. A few days later, our
pictures were printed in the newspaper. Thirty-five days
later, two engineers from the technical university
picked me up from Sivas and
brought me directly to the Istanbul Technical University Sports Hall. I saw the hall and the
ball there for the first time. When I entered,
I saw a hangar-like hall.
I walked toward the
basket, reached for it in my civilian clothes, and there
was about 10 centimeters between my hand and the basket. I
started sports at 2627. This
age is a time when every athlete quits.
In fact, if I
had started earlier,
I could have become a basketball player of world and European caliber. I trained with the team in the evenings, and
Yalçın Granit would come in the mornings specifically to give me the
necessary training. We
trained countless times to become an athlete:
passing, catching, shooting,
rebounding, and
quick movements. Passing, passing, and
passing. I
prepared for all of these, putting in a lot of energy.
I played my first official match against Kadıköyspor. It was my
first time playing in front of such a crowd.
I was excited, very excited. I
scored six points in that match, and my knees and
arms were in great pain. I had some pain, so I had some
difficulty in the first days.
Tracksuits and jerseys were made.
They had given me number 15.
I asked why they were giving me number 15. They said, "15 is the
last number." Since you're the tallest player on this team, they're
giving you the last number. From that
day on, I fought with all my heart and soul. We went to the
match. Sergius Palace was full. It was the first
time I'd been in front of such a crowd.
Basketball has many rules.
I had some difficulties there, too. I
couldn't warm up in the first days. I wore my first national jersey
against Greece in 1964. Yalçın
Gran explained
how he introduced Hüseyin Alp to basketball.
One day, I saw a newspaper article about a
man standing in front of a restaurant in a city in the east
as a bodyguard. He was
215 meters tall. I
said, "Let's bring him and make him a basketball player." Then I
explained the situation to Necmettin Erbakan, the Rector of the time. So
we brought Hüseyin Alp to Istanbul. His feet were very
large. When he started training, we
couldn't find shoes that fit his feet. The
rubber used by Ali Uras during the surgery. They had shoes, and they
gave us two of them. Hüseyin Alp
started playing basketball that way. He was almost 30 when he put on the national jersey. He
wore the Golden Army jersey in 1966. And Hüseyin Alp
brought Altınordu its first championship in history. Then he
returned to İTÜ and won a championship there as well.
Between 1969 and 1973, İTÜ
won four consecutive championships, and
one of the architects of this was Hüseyin Alp. He bid farewell to basketball with a
jubilee match attended by thousands of people in 1974.
Hüseyin Alp had
dedicated fans in many countries, especially Greece. The
author of the jubilee book, Cem
Atabeyoğlu, described his admiration for Hüseyin Alp
as follows: "In the
1972 Balkan Basketball Championship held in Saraj Oba,
luck denied us even the slightest smile. We couldn't
win a single match. We
came in last place. Our great sadness at the closing ceremony. In
fact, we found our greatest
consolation in the heartfelt cheers of the thousands of spectators who filled the hall.
Volimo huso volum
huso. The Bosnian audience was chanting, 'We love the Hus lineage.' The
bruised pride and pride of our basketball team were rising.
That Huso saved his reputation all by himself. No matter
how famous Hüseyin Alp was in Bosnia, it was
very difficult to earn money from basketball in those years. He
opened a grocery store to make a living while playing basketball and then
took part in a few movies. He learned that he had cancer
in 1982, at a relatively young
age. He was only 48 years old when he
succumbed to this insidious disease on January 8, 1983.
through this life with his life full of ups and downs, pain and smiles. Ah [Music]
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