The national team of Tajikistan with great difficulty got to Hebron to hold friendly match against Palestine.
The national football team of Tajikistan in the evening on the 4th of September with great difficulty got to Hebron to hold friendly match against Palestine.
According to the official website of FFT, taking into account waiting in the airport the road from Dushanbe to Hebron took nearly a day. On Saturday evening the national team of Tajikistan flew to Dubai and from there took the road to Jordan.
Further, from the Amman International airport on the bus team drove to an Israeli checkpoint. The delegation of our team was stuck for four hours. Finally after passport control, on the bus team went to the Palestinian city of Hebron through Israel. The road from the Israeli checkpoint to the hotel "Abu Mazen" in Hebron, where our team lives, took about two hours. On arrival in Hebron after a hard and exhausting road the head coach of Tajikistan Hakim Fuzaylov canceled the scheduled on the evening training session, giving the players a rest.
For the away match with Palestine our team arrived consisting of 18 players: 2 goalkeepers, 5 defenders, 7 midfielders and 4 forwards. Four of the 18 players represent foreign clubs: the goalkeeper Abduaziz Mahkamov (“Alai”, Kyrgyzstan), midfielders Davronov Nuriddin ("Dunav", Bulgaria), Parvizjon Umarboev ("Lokomotiv", Plovdiv, Bulgaria) and striker Jahongir Ergashev ("Dynamo", Brest, Belarus).
Today, on September 5, the national team of Tajikistan will hold pre-match training session at international stadium "Dura" in Hebron, where on Tuesday, on September 6, will be held a friendly match against Palestine, which is currently takes 115th place in FIFA rankings.