Lokomotiv Tashkent - Uzbekistan Super League 2021

 




Unlike most of the teams named Lokomotiv in the former Soviet Union, the Tashkent based team are a fairly modern team. They, as you would expect are sponsored by the Uzbekistan railways, but they were not formed until 2002. Despite a bit of a yo-yo existence in the early years, they won the Championship 3 years in a row from 2016 to 2018. This included an impressive doubles in 2016 and 2017. However, it would appear that the glory days are well and truly over, as up to now they have lost their first 2 games, but have a chance to put things right against minnows Toran tomorrow. 

The coach in charge for this season is Portuguese manager Micael Secqueira, who joined from Al-Nasr in the UAE league and has a lot of Portuguese teams also on his CV - he never seems to last long anywhere and this could be a challenge too. 


Players to watch: Returning from UAE side Khor Fakkan is well travelled centre forward Temurkhuzha Abdukholikov. Loko will need him to be among the goals if they are to make much progress this season.  Diyorzhon Turopov, who is an attacking midfielder who has been at the club since 2017 will also be someone that the team will be looking at to create chances and score goals.


Stary signing: Islomzhon Kobilov, who signed from Bunyodkor is a no nonsense centre half who Loko will hope finds his feet at his new club soon. They have the firepower up front, but hopefully he will sure up what at the moment looks like a leaky defence. 


Foreign Legion: Diego Bardanca, who is a Spanish centre half who somehow managed to play for the Philippines. At 27 he’s been all over the place and signed from Slovenian side ND Gorica. It feels like despite his age this might be one of his last chances. Further up the field in centre midfield is club captain, Khaki Makharadze from Georgia. At 33 he has plenty of experience and has spent virtually an equal amount of time in the Uzbek league as the Georgian one.

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