KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘football’

  • Ninja Football

    This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. In a match between the Astana and Almaty football teams, Lokomotiv and Kairat respectively, a Kairat player made a nasty tackle (looks almost like he clotheslined him). That started a huge argument on the field. So far nothing too unusual. It got crazy when Armand Masimzhanov, an […]

  • Not Much Worse

    4-0. That was the final score of Germany vs. Kazakhstan Saturday. 3 in the first half, including one in the first four minutes and one in the last minute of the first half. In the second half, Germany relaxed and just tried to keep the Kazakhstan side scoreless, although Klose scored one more. As Sports.kz […]

  • Worse Than 3-0?

    Worse Than 3-0?

    Saturday is the big game. Kazakhstan and Germany for the World Cup qualifiers. It’s probably not much of a surprise that the ESPN Preview doesn’t look good for Kazakhstan. So far Kazakhstan hasn’t a won a game in their group (Germany, Austria, Turkey, Belgium and Azerbaijan) and Germany hasn’t lost a game. I was surprised […]

  • Octopus Is Economic Threat

    According to The Daily Telegraph and Kazakhstan’s Liter, the Kazakhstan Association of Bookmakers blames Paul the Octopus for a bad take from this year’s World Cup. Out of 10 billion tenge (almost $67 million) put down on World Cup matches in Kazakhstan, bookmakers only made 150 million tenge profit ($1 million), or 1.5%. They had […]

  • Sports.kz

    Just discovered Sports.kz, a website that covers Kazakh sport, both national and international. Unfortunately it’s in Russian. Some other useful links on that page: RSS feed Asian Games category Newsreader a downloadable desktop app And thanks to this site, I just found the national football team site: Sbornaya.kz Sbornaya is the Russian word for team, […]

  • Play-By-Play

    Should have mentioned this last night, but Chris Merriman, who admits to not being a huge football fan, has a bit of a play-by-play of the Kazakhstan-Croatia World Cup qualifying match. Kazakhstan was already out of contention to go to South Africa in 2010, but had Ukraine lost or tied Andorra last night, a Croatian […]