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Nazim Suleymanov: We intend to play friendly with Azeri footballers abroad

20 June 2007 14:55 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijani national team coach staff is waiting for answer from our footballers living abroad, selector coach Nazim Suleymanov told APA-Sport.
The trainer stated that they have contacted only Roma Mammedov, 24, goalkeeper of reserved team of Russian top division Kuban. Suleymanov noted that they havenâ€™t found coordination of other Azeri footballers. Suleymanov said he recently received video record of a footballer playing in Ukraine. He intends to send letters to the young and promising footballers in Turkey, Russia and Kazakhstan by Internet.
â€œWe want to gather all Azeri footballers in Baku and play friendly match with them. Coach Staff will select the promising players to the national teamâ€, he said.
Besides Mammedov, Suleymanov has invited 5 footballers - Adil Ibrahimov (1989), Isgender Jalilov (1992, SCKA), Aziz Mansurov (1989, Locomotive), Namig Abilov (1988) from England and Togrul Abdulrehmanov (1983) from Switzerland. /APA-Sport/