Stuart Duff. Photo courtesy of news.bbc.co.uk
There are professional footballers in the Kazakhstan Football Championship teams that held promise well failed to succeed in their sports careers for different reasons. A list of the top 10 degrading footballers has been made by Vesti.kz sports portal. There are six legionaries in the list: - FC Kairat’s Stuart Duff: Scottish midfielder played 13 matches for the Almaty team and never score any goals, - Famous footballer Leonid Kovel from Belarus, who played for Irtysh club, was injured during a match and had to go return home, - His teammate Serbian goalkeeper Nemanja Džodžo played only 3 games and he is still a reserve player now, - Georgian forward Davit Chagelishvili from FC Ordabasy played only 3 matches in 14 tours, - Serbian defender Ersin Mehmedović of Taraz team was removed from first-team squad because of his inconsistent playing, - Cameroon's forward Titi Essomba (Taraz) also plays unstable. The other four football player in the top ten list are from Kazakhstan: - Sergei Strukov (FC Irtysh), - Aleksandr Kuchma (FC Tobol), - Denis Rodionov (FC Atyrau), - Aleksey Shakin (FC Atyrau).
There are professional footballers in the Kazakhstan Football Championship teams that held promise well failed to succeed in their sports careers for different reasons. A list of the top 10 degrading footballers has been made by Vesti.kz sports portal.
There are six legionaries in the list:
- FC Kairat’s Stuart Duff: Scottish midfielder played 13 matches for the Almaty team and never score any goals,
- Famous footballer Leonid Kovel from Belarus, who played for Irtysh club, was injured during a match and had to go return home,
- His teammate Serbian goalkeeper Nemanja Džodžo played only 3 games and he is still a reserve player now,
- Georgian forward Davit Chagelishvili from FC Ordabasy played only 3 matches in 14 tours,
- Serbian defender Ersin Mehmedović of Taraz team was removed from first-team squad because of his inconsistent playing,
- Cameroon's forward Titi Essomba (Taraz) also plays unstable.
The other four football player in the top ten list are from Kazakhstan:
- Sergei Strukov (FC Irtysh),
- Aleksandr Kuchma (FC Tobol),
- Denis Rodionov (FC Atyrau),
- Aleksey Shakin (FC Atyrau).