Marked for Sardor Nematov
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sardor Nematov
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Obod lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Obod
Odil Hasanov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mpho Khethang and Obod agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sardor Nematov
100 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Obod lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match23 Nov 2026
Obod sink to position 16
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Amir Ahmedov in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Obod this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sardor Nematov
107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Obod lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Obod may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Obod
Odil Hasanov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Sardor Nematov damages knee ligaments — 115 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 115 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Amir Ahmedov in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Obod this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Obod, and 3 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
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Words at Obod training over how hard people work
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Mpho Khethang knocks on the manager's door
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Sardor Nematov damages knee ligaments — 122 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 122 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Obod training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdulla Urunov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager plants his flag on Abdulla Urunov
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Abdulla Urunov’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sardor Nematov damages knee ligaments — 129 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 129 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Obod
Position 16 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Obod may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Amir Ahmedov in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Obod this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Abdulla Urunov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Metallurg to sit and watch. I want to come back to Obod and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.