Marked for Akmal Mirzaev
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Obod, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Obod
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Obod are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Doniyor Tukhtasinov reports back to Obod with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Obod training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zilkifilu Rabiu 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Mauricio Felipe
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Obod will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
Obod say no — this time
The offer from PSIM for Rustam Fayzullaev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Obod
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Obod, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Zilkifilu Rabiu 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Obod
Akmal Mirzaev 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Otabek Abdullaev, and the manager let it.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mirzo Komilov and Obod agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
$72.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Obod out
Out, 0‑4 to Pakhtakor, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Obod are taken apart by Pakhtakor — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Market17 Aug 2026
Nodir Ganiev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Obod can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A chastening introduction for Farhod Suyunov — 5.69
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.69 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Obod
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Obod are no longer polite ones.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Obod spend $72.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $72.0K for Hamzaxon Xo'jayev, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Zilkifilu Rabiu 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Obod are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Obod, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Aug 2026
Andijon come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Obod did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Otabek Abdullaev and Obod agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Rustam Fayzullaev 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Obod
Akmal Mirzaev 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
Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Obod, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Akmal Suyunov commits to Obod for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Obod training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Otabek Abdullaev 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Obod against Sogdiana
0‑2 to Sogdiana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ulugbek Masharipov, and the manager let it.