Mehmet Oğuz

Mehmet Oğuz (3 May 1949 – 27 November 2022), popularly known as Big Mehmet, was a Turkish footballer who played for the Turkey national team, as well as Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe.

Club career Mehmet Oğuz was born in Istanbul on 3 May 1949. He started his footballing career with Kadirga SK. He later joined the Galatasaray junior team and was promoted to the senior squad where he became part of the starting eleven. He was nicknamed Big Mehmet in order to differentiate him from his teammate Mehmet Özgül. Oğuz won three championships in a row with Galatasaray and he became the club's captain in the 1970s.