The shirt of Muzaffer Badalıoğlu on display at the Samsun City Museum. Badalıoğlu wore this jersey for the last time in the match before the January 20th Disaster.

Muzaffer Badalıoğlu (13 November 1960 – 20 January 1989) was a Turkish footballer who last played as a defender for Samsunspor, and also appeared for the Turkey national football team.

The Samsunspor team bus was involved in a traffic accident in Havza on the way to a match in Malatya on 20 January 1989, killing the team coach, five players and the bus driver instantly. Badalıoğlu was one of the players who died.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Samsunspor 20 Ocak Faciası" (in Turkish). Milliyet. 21 January 1989. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012.
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