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While he was staying in Moskow for a qualification match against Russia Bata received visitors very dear to his heart; Fenerbahce fans. The organisation of fans is called Association of Fenerbahce fans in Moskow and they are the only foreign fan club in Moskow. They have 130 member and since not a lot of Turkish people live in Russia, this number is rather high. Their official openning was made by  the president of Fenerbahce sport kilubu on 7th of October 2000. That was the first time in history that a Fenerbahce president opened a fan club in a foreign country.  As they learned that Bata and Laza would come to Moscow, the Russian member of executive committe got in touch with the Yugoslavian embassy in Moscow. Their reaction was very positive. When the team arrived at the Mezhdunarodnaya hotel, Yugoslavian diplomat informed them about thier arrival and their friend immediately went there and found players. They said they could see them at 10.00 pm that day. Although it was a bit late some 10 - 15 of them went to the hotel wearing Fenerbahce shirts. When Bata and Laza were coming out of the restuarant they started singing their names. When they got near they told them who they were and gave them flowers, their association's shirts, overcoats and coffee mugs. Bata and Laza were happy to see them. Bata said he knew that they had a banner (in Russian) in Istanbul's Sukru Saracoglu stadium.







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