Temur Kopadze

Football players of Uzbekistan won the ticket to a crucial stage for output of the World Cup.

In the fourth round of Asian qualifying competition for the World Cup 2014 to be held in Brazil, the national football team of Uzbekistan defeated the team of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at home with a score of 1:0.

Having scored seven points in the three rounds of the group C, Uzbek team was able to get an early start in the decisive fourth stage of the qualifying tournament.

From the first minutes of the match, Uzbek players stepped up the attack line. In turn, the players of North Korea, also preformed a serious resistance, trying to keep a chance of reaching the next stage of the qualifying events.

In the first half of the time the score was not open. In the second half of the match, Uzbek players intensified attacks. As a result, Temur Kopadze scored the ball, the pass from Alexander Heinrich, into the opponents’ goal net and has brought his team an important victory.


The national football team of Uzbekistan

In the second meeting of the group C, team of Tajikistan at home has given way to football players of Japan with a score of 0:4.

Thus, teams of Uzbekistan and Japan, having scored 10 points and leading in Group C, went into the next phase of qualifying.

On 15 November, a team of Uzbekistan will meet players of Tajikistan at home in the fifth round of the match.

In the third stage of Asian qualifying tournament, the strongest 20 teams of the continent are struggling for a win, having divided into five groups. In this competition, which will run through February 29, 2012, two of the strongest teams from each group will receive tickets to the crucial fourth round of qualifying.

Uzbekistan national news agency