Player Profile – Kyrgyz Republic National Football Team

Here is a no-frills Player Profile of the Kyrgyz Republic National Football Team by Raghav Sastry. Follow him on twitter – The Indian 420

(GK) Pavel Matiash (30) : Height – 197cm, Weight – 94kg

Has 25 National Team caps with an average of 84min / game

Leagues Played – Uzbekistani 1^st Div.; Malaysian 2^nd Div.; Maldives 1^st Div

(DF) Azamat Baimatov (28) ( captain ) : Height 188 cm, Weight – 79kg

Has 30 NT caps with 4 goals against Macau, Australia, Kazakhstan and Iran u-23

Leagues Played – Latvian 1^st Div.; Bahraini 1^st Div.; Indonesian 1^st Div.; Russian 2^nd Div.

(DF) Kursanbek Sheratov (28) : Height – 170cm, Weight – 65kg

17 NT caps with an average of 82 min/ game

Leagues Played – Kyrgyz 1^st Div.

(DF) Tamirlan Kozubaev (23)

Leagues Played – Lithuanian 1^st Div.; Serbian 1^st Div. where he played for a club which got relegated to 2^nd division in the season he played him

(DF) Aziz Sydykov (25) : Height – 170cm, Weight – 75kg

19 NT caps with an average of 64 min/ game

Leagues Played – Kyrgyz 1^st Div.

(MF) Edgar Bernhardt (31) : Height – 174cm, weight – 65kg

He has a German, Russian and a Kyrgyz Citizenship (did not know 3 were possible)

14 NT caps with an average of 82 min / game and a goal against Bangladesh

Leagues Played – German 1^st Div.; Netherlands 2^nd Div.; Finnish 1^st Div.; Polish 1^st Div.; Oman 1^st Div.

(MF) Furkhat Muzabekov (24): 9 caps in the u-21 team, 3 caps in the u-23 team and 13 caps for the Senior team.

Played in the Moldovan 1^st Div.; Crimean 1^st Division (Crimea was annexed by Russia and clubs in that region started playing in the Russian 3^rd Division. Ukraine protested as they claim that Crimea is part of their territory. So, the UEFA created a new league and clubs from Crimea are to play in the league. Most clubs from that region are Ukrainian with a small of fraction of them holding “Crimean FIFA nationality)

(MF) Akhmedov Murolimzhon (26) : Two u-23 appearances against Jordan and Iran

He was voted as the best player in the 2017 season of the Kyrgyzstan 1^st Div.

(MF) Pavel Sidorenko (30) : Height – 175cm, Weight 70kg

20 NT caps with an average of 62 min / game. He also scored a goal as part of the u-23 outfit against China u-23

Leagues played – Kyrgyz 1^st division

(MF) Anton Zemlianukhin (29) : Height – 175cm | Leagues played – Turkish 2^nd Division, Serbian 1^st Divion, Thai 1^st Scored 2 goals against Macau and 1 against Myanmar in the 2019 ACQ

(FWD) Bakhtiyar Duyshobekov (22) : 13 NT caps with 1 international goal against Tajikistan and 6 u-21 appearances with 1 goal

Leagues Played – Belarusian 1st Division, Turkish 4^th division

(FWD) Viktor Maier (27) : Played for the u-17 Germany team with 10 appearances and 13 Kyrgyz NT caps with an average of 84 min / game

Leagues Played – German 3^rd division, Dutch 2^nd Division

(FWD) Vitalij Lux (29) : Height – 183cm, Weight – 82kg | 14 NT caps with an average of 75 min / game with a goal against Macau.

Leagues Pleayed – Lower regional German divisions and German 3^rd Division

(FWD) Mirlan Murzaev (27) : He has a goal against Sri Lanka, Macau, India and Kazakhstan, 28 NT caps with an average of 60 min/ game

(DF) Valleri Kichin (25) : Kyrgyz player of Russian descent

He has played in the Russian 1^st Division and Kyrgyz 1^st division and currently plays for a club in the Russian 2^nd division

(MF) Akhlidin Israilov (23) : Height – 180cm, Weeight – 65kg

He has played in the I- League with NEROCA FC and has played in the Indonesian 1^st Division and Ukrainian 1^st Division.

He has ten u-21 appearances with 1 gaol and 12 senior team caps with 2 goals