World Champion from Bogatyr

28.05.2018

The name of Murat Akhmetsharipov is well-known for the football fans of not only our town; in the yesteryear he defended the colors of the main football team called Ekibastuz honorably. Currently Murat works for Bogatyr Coal LLP and is the player of the basis of Sayran capital club. A few days ago in the composition of Sayran picked team from Astana hr became the winner of the world club championship in football among amateur teams held in the Spanish city called Lloret de Mar.

Despite the fallen load connected with the far road and further acclimatization, the guys managed to get the honorable title of world champions in complicated games with their opponents.

In the group stage our football players inflicted the overwhelming defeat to the picked team from Ecuador with a score 7:1, they yielded to the Americans in the obstinate struggle with a difference in two points, and did not leave any chances to the Australians in the play-off match having won with a score 9:1.

In the semifinal Sayran met the playground hosts, who yielded to Astana players with a score 2:3. In the final our football players scored a deciding goal eight minutes prior to the end of the match and snatched a victory from the champions of the last year - team from Brazil - with a score 4:3.

By Murat Akhmetsharipov, the Kazakhstani team was "a black horse" in the championship, that is why the triumph of Kazakhstani football players became a real sensation of the past World Cup among club teams of the amateur league.

Written by Marina PONKRATOVA

Photo from the archives of Murat AKHMETSHARIPOV.