The mass hysteria caused by these wins in Istanbul raised Hagi's popularity even further with the fans and made French ex-international Luis Fernández to say that " Hagi is like wine, the older it gets, the better it is ".

He was promoted to first team by Gheorghe Hagi in 2004 – 05 season, making his official debut against Bursaspor in a Turkish Cup match on 22 January 2005.

With Emilio Butragueño, Míchel, Fernando Hierro, Manolo Sanchís, Gheorghe Hagi, and aging Hugo Sánchez as the club's established stars, Antić's debut took place at the Bernabéu versus Real Oviedo on Sunday, 24 March 1991, ending in somewhat disappointing 1 – 1 draw considering Oviedo played with 10 men since the 68th minute.

Hagi is one of the few footballers to have played for both the Spanish rival clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

In the winter of 1987 Hagi was transferred to Romanian giants Steaua București as the team prepared for their European Super Cup final against FC Dynamo Kyiv.

After two years at FC Barcelona, Hagi signed for Galatasaray S. K .. At Galatasaray, he was both successful and highly popular among the Turkish supporters.

He was forced to give up all his land except for the Suō and Nagato areas ( current-day Yamaguchi Prefecture ), where he built his castle in Hagi.

Since then, Hagi developed as the political center of Chōshū for over 250 years.

He was forced to give up all his land except for the Suō and Nagato areas ( current-day Yamaguchi Prefecture ), where he built his castle in Hagi.

Since then international sculpture symposia have been held in numerous towns and cities around the world, including Lindabrunn, Austria and Hagi, YamaguchiHagi, Japan ( a town known for its pottery ).

Due to its proximity to the border to neighboring Yamaguchi, many tourists who come to Tsuwano also visit Hagi on the Sea of Japan and Yamaguchi at the same time, and Tsuwano is often mistaken as being located in Yamaguchi prefecture for this reason.

Once the understudy to Romanian legend Gheorghe Hagi, it seemed that the sky was the limit for Emre as he won 4 Süper Lig titles, 2 Turkish Cups, 1 UEFA Cup, and 1 UEFA Super Cup all by the age of 21.

In the 35th minute Hagi, in his final international tournament, hit the woodwork with goalkeeper Francesco Toldo stranded off his line and, after the break, was sent off for diving.

Gheorghe Hagi was borrowed this way from FC Sportul Studențesc for the 1987 European Super Cup match with SK Dinamo Kiev and afterwards continued, at his will, to play for Steaua, despite his former club's opposition.

In 2000, former Romanian legend Gheorghe Hagi rated him as one of the finest ball-playing midfielders in Europe, and in 2006, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had suggested that if he were ten years younger, Tugay's ability would make him an ideal player for the Old Trafford team.

On October 21, 2010, Galatasaray SK has announced that the legendary Tugay Kerimoglu has been assigned for the position of the new assistant coach for Galatasaray, along side of another living legend, Gheorghe Hagi.

Tugay refused to become the head coach until the end of the season, saying it would be wrong to accept the position for the head coach right after the sacking of Hagi.

In 2004, Taffarel rejoined Galatasaray as goalkeeper coach ( under former teammate Gheorghe Hagi ), returning to the club for the 2011 – 12 season, again with Fatih Terim as manager.

The ‘ 80s were the best years in the team's history, due to achieving extraordinary performances ( third place in 1982 -’ 83 and second place in 1985 -’ 86 championships ) but mostly because back then stars like Marcel Coraş and Gheorghe Hagi played for Sportul.

Hagi played for Sportul until 1986, when Steaua Bucureşti " borrowed " him before the final of the Champions Cup.

Hagi and Steaua were the champions of Romania in 1987, 1988 and 1989 and as well as winning the Romania Cup in 1987, 1988 and 1989.

Their finest hour came at the 1994 World Cup where Romania, led by playmaker Gheorghe Hagi, reached the quarterfinals by defeating South American powerhouse Argentina before losing to Sweden on a penalty shootout.

At the finals, Romania were one of the most entertaining teams in the early stages with Hagi, Răducioiu and Dumitrescu on form.

In between, Gabriel Batistuta scored a penalty, but after half-time Romania netted a superb third on the counter attack, with Hagi beating goalkeeper Luis Islas.

* Romania – Gheorghe Hagi

Four years later, after the 1998 World Cup, Hagi decided to retire from the national team, only to change his mind after a few months and play at the 2000 European Football Championship, during which he was sent off in the quarter-final loss against Italy.

The first period lasted until World War II and culminated with the accession in the first national league, then the club disappeared in the dawn of communism and was reborn and grown again to accede the first division ; " the Hagi period " with its best performance, second place in 1986-a period led by president Barbu Emil " Mac " Popescu ; and finally the present marked by the president Vasile Siman, with Sportul Studenţesc again among the best football teams in the championship.

Hagi and manager Fatih Terim built a team that would win four consecutive league titles.

Hagi led the Romanian team to its best ever international performance at the 1994 World Cup, where the team reached the quarterfinals before Sweden ended their run after winning the penalty shoot-out.

After the arrival of Romanian Gheorghe Hagi, Martín Vázquez decided to accept the offer of Torino F. C., but failed to settle in Italy during his two-season spell ( although he did help the team reach the 1992 UEFA Cup final ).

In 2000, at the age of 35, Hagi had the best days of his career winning every possible trophy with Galatasaray.

Yoshida Shōin is now enshrined at Shōin-jinja in Wakabayashi, Setagaya-ku ( 世田谷区若林4丁目35-1 ) in Tokyo, as well as in his birth place Hagi in Yamaguchi Prefecture ( 山口県萩市椿東1537 ).

The Mōri clan became daimyo of Chōshū Domain at the beginning of the Edo period and built Hagi Castle at the foot of Mt.

They transferred the capital of the domain from Hiroshima to Hagi at the same time.

The modern masters of the traditional kilns still bring the ancient formulas in pottery and porcelain to new heights of achievement at Shiga, Ige, Karatsu, Hagi, and Bizen.

Romanian football legend Gheorghe Hagi praised his work in Florence, " In five months he built up a phenomenal side at Fiorentina.

World class players such as Pierre van Hooijdonk, Mário Jardel, Nicolas Anelka, John Carew, Milan Baroš, Radomir Antić, Óscar Córdoba, Lincoln, Mateja Kežman, Kleberson, Roberto Carlos, Zoran Simović, Frank de Boer, Giovani dos Santos, Franck Ribéry, Harry Kewell, Dani Güiza, Guti, Quaresma, Gheorghe Hagi, Jô, Abdul Kader Keita, Shabani Nonda, Lucas Neill, Lorik Cana, Giga Popescu, Jérôme Rothen and many more have played at some point or continue to play in Turkey.

He studied western science and medicine ( rangaku ) at the domain school Meirinkan in Hagi, and in Nagasaki, He was then sent by Chōshū domain to Germany to study western law in 1868.

Hagi retired from professional football in 2001, age 36, in a game called " Gala Hagi " on 24 April.

On 18 November 2010, Misimović was consigned to the reserve squad, as the head coach Gheorghe Hagi ' does not need him in the squad '.

However after winning the trophy, where Hagi scored the only goal of the game, Steaua did not want to release him back to Sportul Studențesc and retained him.

Goals from Gheorghe Hagi and Dean Saunders meant the game was finely balanced, before Wales were awarded a penalty.