The Obod Sentinel
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
Obod part company with Sherzod Ahmedov
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Match3 Mar 2029
Obod taken apart
0‑3 to Navbahor, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
Sherzod Ahmedov takes charge at Obod
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Market5 Mar 2029
Azizbek Ergashaliyev puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Obod, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Words exchanged at Obod
Jaloliddin Hasanov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
5 academy graduates step up at Obod
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Nodir 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.
Market5 Mar 2029
Eldor Abdullaev steps up from the Obod academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Eldor Abdullaev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market5 Mar 2029
One of our own: Shohruh Suyunov joins the Obod first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Shohruh Suyunov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Obod promote Bobur Tukhtasinov from within
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Odil Ismailov
- Boardroom Obod pay $8.8K to end Sherzod Ahmedov's contract