The Obod Sentinel
Match4 Mar 2028
The wait goes on for Obod
34 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.
The terraces6 Mar 2028
Anger at Obod spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dostonbek Fayzullaev
104 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Otabek Urunov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Obod they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match4 Mar 2028
No clean sheets in sight for Obod
6 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Mirzo Akhmedov signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mirzo Akhmedov commits to Obod for another 4 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Obod
Dostonbek Ahmedov 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Graduation day at Obod
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Odil Ahmedov 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.
In brief
- Match Rustam Tukhtasinov’s goal not enough for Obod
- Market Obod promote Eldor Mirzaev from within
- Market Obod promote Shohruh Nematov from within