Cem Dilaver

If I asked you how you felt right now, you would probably give me a quick answer. "Good." "Tired." "Fine." But if I pushed a little further and asked you to break that feeling down, to really describe what is going on inside, most people would struggle. Athletes especially. This is something I think about a lot in my work. We spend so much time tracking physical performance, reps, times, distances, heart rates, but rarely do we give the same attention to our emotional state. And here is the...

Due to my line of work, I try to take an objective stance on teams I favor in terms of how sympathetic they appear to me. At the end of the day, their biggest rival could be the one helping me bring bread home. Yet, there is a team to this day I cannot apply this "natural" sounding rule to: Fenerbahçe. In Turkey, you are not just born into a family, but to a team as well. It was impossible for me to have love for a team other than Fenerbahçe. There are two reasons: first, every member of my...