page_title: Nihat Bekdik
section_title: Football
hierarchical_section_title: Nihat Bekdik / Sporting career / Football
caption_attribution_description: English: Galatasaray SK squad in 1930-31 season. Türkçe: 1930-31 sezonunda Galatasaray SK kadrosu.
context_page_description: "Aslan" Nihat Asım Bekdik was a Turkish professional footballer. He spent the entirety of his career with his hometown club, Galatasaray. He also represented Turkey on 21 occasions, captaining them 10 times.
context_section_description: Nihat was born in Istanbul and played his entire career as a defense player for Galatasaray SK, playing 268 games between 1916 and 1936.
  Like many other Galatasaray SK players at that time, he was a student of the Galatasaray High School and started playing football at the Grand Cour of the Galatasaray High School at the age of 10.
  He was selected to Galatasaray A2 team when he was 12. Two years later he started to do athletics for the next four years. 
  He won the Istanbul Football League sixth times as captain of the team in 1928 and 1936.
caption: Nihat Bekdik as Captain of the Galatasaray SK 1930–1931 Champion Team
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