"We are truly living the best time of our era, of our time. Because both our victories on the political platform, liberating our lands from occupation, rebuilding them, increasing our power and influence in the international arena, and naturally, the continuation of these victories in our sports policy by the "Karabakh" football club in this sense, make each of us proud as an Azerbaijani."
Idman.biz reports that these words were said by MP Vugar Iskandarov to Sportnet.az.
"Karabakh is not only the name of our football club, but it also symbolically carries the name of Karabakh, which has been our sore spot for almost 30 years. "Karabakh" symbolizes the continuation of our successes after our last victory - 2020, and then after the anti-terrorist measures in 2023," he said.
According to the MP, these victories are not only measured by the game performance in the football arena: "Karabakh"'s victory over "Benfica" made the entire Turkic world proud. Today we receive congratulations from our friends from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan. So many congratulations come that I have already lost count. In particular, our friends from Turkey are experiencing the pride of a team like "Benfica", which defeated their own club - "Fenerbahce", losing to another Turkish club.
Karabakh continues the same mission in the field of football, just as it revived the entire Turkic world in the political arena, returned its pride, and raised the honor of our nation by liberating our lands from occupation. This victory is also valuable because "Karabakh", playing with a budget of about 25 million euros, defeats clubs with many times bigger budgets in its own field.
Currently, the football world is talking about Azerbaijan and Karabakh. This once again demonstrates the strength and power of Azerbaijan. Today we are developing in all areas, we are on the list of developing countries. Azerbaijan is already becoming one of the decision-makers in the world. Our football club also has a special rating among world and European clubs. There is no club that does not shy away from "Karabakh" anymore, because this team's game performance has a unique value."
The MP is sure that the emergence of such a club with a small budget, the highest level of motivation under the leadership of Gurban Gurbanov, the strong connection between the players and the formation of the club as a single team symbolizes the unity of our country as a fist.
Yesterday, "Karabakh" defeated "Benfica" 3:2 in the first leg of the overall stage.
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