Fortuna Sittard will play in the away match against FC Emmen on Saturday with Giro555 on the shirt. The Turkish-tinted Eredivisie club wants to raise extra money for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
After the Eredivisie game, the shirts of the Fortuna players will be auctioned. The proceeds from this are also for the victims of the disaster, which has already killed more than sixteen thousand people.
Fortuna Sittard has a Turkish chairman with Isitan Gün. In addition, captain Burak Yilmaz, who scored 31 times in 77 international matches, is a celebrity in his country. Dogan Erdogan and Oguzhan Özyakup, who was born in Zaandam, also have a Turkish passport.
“Because of the close ties with the affected area, we would like to mean something,” the Limburg club reports on Thursday. Normally sponsor BetCity adorns Fortuna Sittard’s shirt, but the gambling company relinquishes that place on Saturday.
Turkey and Syria were hit in the night from Sunday to Monday by an earthquake of barely comprehensible magnitude. The fear is that the death toll of sixteen thousand will rise considerably.
FC Emmen-Fortuna Sittard kicks off on Saturday at 9 p.m. This week, two matches in the Kitchen Champion Division and six cup matches were preceded by a minute of silence. This will also be the case in the FC Twente-Ajax and ADO Den Haag-Go Ahead Eagles cup matches on Thursday evening.
