Turkey didn’t qualify for the World Cup in Brazil. The last time the World Cup was held in Brazil 64 years ago. Turkey couldn't go either, not because they didn't qualify….but because the whole country ran out of money…

In 2014, Akbank, Turkey’s biggest bank, decided to step in. Using a promotional campaign they wanted to give everyone in Turkey the chance to realize their dreams.

And give the winners the chance to join the last 2 surviving members of that legendary team of 1950, as we finally took them to the World Cup in Brazil.

We invited the football fans to join the campaign with a recreation of the Turkey – Syria match which secured our golden ticket to “Brazil 1950”…and restored national pride in a time of hardship.

We produced a series of short documentaries to introduce the 2 surviving players. To bring the story to a new generation we built an online museum website. We made headlines on blogs and newspapers. Our heroes appeared on Turkey’s most popular talk show.

As it made it’s cultural impact, they became a worldwide trending topic.

The film of the game was watched 6 million times.

Campaign website reached 273.000 people.

Credit card applications increased by 18 percent.

And the lucky winners of the campaign had the chance to join our heroes as they finally fulfilled their dream of going to Brazil.

We invited the football fans to join the campaign with a recreation of the Turkey – Syria match which secured our golden ticket to “Brazil 1950”…and restored national pride in a time of hardship.

We produced a series of short documentaries to introduce the 2 surviving players.

To bring the story to a new generation we built an online museum website.

Surviving members of the legendary 1950 team appeared on Turkey’s most popular TV talk show.

While our video had a viewcount of 2,224,117 on Youtube, it was watched almost 6 million times in total, in only 6 weeks. On the website for our campaign,www.efsaneyolculuk.com, our unique visitor count was 272,811. During the 8 March 2014 broadcast with Bülent Eken and Erol Keskin as guests for Beyaz Show which is the most popular talkshow in Turkey, 'Bülent Eken' helped the project to be talked about by being both in Turkey Trends and WorldWide Trends on Twitter. During the campaign our Facebook contents were seen by 34,296,184 users, and people who clicked or viewed the content was 289,370,123 users in total. Akbank Direkt Card applications covered 18% of all credit card sales.