On September 21, on the International Day of Peace, the Young Ambassadors for Football for Friendship and members of FC Schalke 04 held a meeting on the topic “Making football drive the planet: Finding grounds for common understanding: searching for the basis for mutual understanding”. The event became a part of the #UN75 global dialogue
It is a great opportunity for students from Uzbekistan to participate in the organising of the 2020 AFC U19 Championship, to contribute to one of the prestigious sport festivals in the continent. There are several stages of the programme, including recruiting, selecting and training the volunteers in all 3 Host Cities, and finally organising their
Minsk: With the gaze of a football-starved world increasingly turning towards Belarus, Uzbekistan youngster Jasurbek Yakhshiboev has become an instant star of one of the world’s only active leagues, but the 22-year-old has ambitions far beyond Minsk. The New York Times labelled it “an outlier in European soccer”, while former Manchester United star and current
Tashkent: It took a little over two years for Shota Arveladze to transform Pakhtakor from a stumbling giant seemingly in terminal decline into a resurgent powerhouse that swept all before them in Uzbekistan in 2019. Now, with a first-ever domestic treble under their belt, the former Ajax Amsterdam striker has his sights on doing much
It seems that every time Uzbekistan excel in Asia’s FIFA World Cup™ preliminaries, a new star emerges. Alexander Geynrikh was the player who dazzled in their Germany 2006 campaign, striking four times as his side stormed all the way through to Asian play-off – only to lose out, heartbreakingly, to Bahrain on away goals. Then