28/02/11 - Uzbekistan football team preparing for 2012 Olympics

Дата публикации: Jan 19, 2012 3:40:33 PM

The football team of Uzbekistan, which is preparing for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, is holding training in Turkey.

In accordance with the decision of the Football Federation, the team is being trained by Tohir Kopadze and Marat Miftahuddinov.

The team consists of players who won silver medals at the Asian youth championship in 2008 and who participated in the youth championship in 2009 in Egypt.

Apart from physical, technical and tactic training in Turkey, the team is holding games with foreign clubs.

In the first game with Ukrainian Shakhtyor, the score was 2-2. Goals’ authors from the Uzbek side were Sherzodbek Karimov and Kenja Turayev.

The second game against Neman.from Belarus ended with a result of 3-2 in favor of the Uzbek players (Alisher Azizov (2 goals) and Fozil Musayev).

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