The Obod Sentinel
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Obod
5 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Filip Jović stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Filip Jović and Obod agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Filip Jović wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Obod know it.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
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.
Match6 Mar 2027
A bad afternoon for Obod against Navbahor
1‑2 to Navbahor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Rustam Abdullaev joins the Obod first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rustam Abdullaev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Sherzod Nematov steps up from the Obod academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sherzod Nematov 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Obod promote Ulugbek Abdullaev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ulugbek Abdullaev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Amir Masharipov joins the Obod first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Amir Masharipov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Dušan Puletić
- Squad Obod count the cost of losing Felipe Rocha
- The dugout Abdulla Komilov: “No excuses”