Recently, all Uzbek internet forums were full of rumors about FC Barcelona’s striker Samuel Eto’o coming to Uzbekistan to sign a contract with Kuruvchi, a leading football team in Uzbek premier league. Today, at least the half of the rumor is turned out to be truth - Samuel Eto’o escorted with other three representative […]
Recently, Mansurhon wrote about Uzbekistan paving its way to the World Cup 2010 in qualifying games of FIFA World Cup™ Asian. In his post, he has also mentioned that the next group match would be between the leaders of the group Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia, who had been already qualified to the next stage. […]
Until the match with Lebanon, Uzbekistan has been confidently leading in his group in qualifying games of FIFA World Cup™ Asian. After beating the Lebanon in Tashkent on June 14 with the score 3:00, Uzbekistan granted a place for itself in the next round of qualifying games.
FIFA writes:
Uzbekistan reclaimed top spot Group […]
The beloved football team of Uzbekistan Pakhtakor lost in finals of Commonwealth Champions Cup to Azderbaijani football team Khazar-Lenkoran with the score 3:4. The match was hold on January 27 in Russian city St Petersburg. The stadium was full of fans. Even though the match was hold in Russia, there were a lot of […]
On 25 January semi-finals of the Commonwealth Champions Cup of the CIS and the Baltic States took place. Uzbek football team Pakhtakor won Lithuanian Kaunas - 3:1 and thus Uzbeks, current holders of the cup, qualified for the final. Pakhtakor’s final game will be against young Azerbaijani football team Khazar-Lankoran. The match will be […]
Now, I will not be mistaken if I state that boxing is the most developed sport in Uzbekistan. My arguments would be world champion Rufat Riskiev, olympic champion Muhammadkadyr Abduallev, WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev, and now Abbos Atoev.
Uzbekistan’s boxing team recently returned from 11 days of completion AIBA World Boxing Championships Chicago 2007 having in its balance […]
Edited version. Originally posted here on 10.08.07
Sounds ridiculous? But Uzbeks did play a role in getting Russia its Sochi-2014 Winter Olympic Games. And here is why.
The President of the Russian Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev told in an interview to “Rossiyskaja Gazeta”(RUS): “I can say this with full confidence that the votes given by […]
A WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev, an Uzbekistani citizen (“Karimov’s son”*), who earned his championship title in the fight with an outstanding Russian heavyweight boxer Nikolai Valuev (aka Russian Giant), refused to go to the ring to defend his title in the fight with another famous Russian boxer, a WBO champion Sultan Ibragimov. As Chagaev’s […]
