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Shakir Garibov: I do not intend to apologize to anyone

13 September 2007 14:51 (UTC +04:00)

â€œThe match with Croatia proved that Azerbaijan team was able to score attack and score goal. It is not a problem fro us to score goal awayâ€, Azerbaijan Olympic team head coach Shakir Garibov told APA-Sport.
â€œ We prepared well to the match with Greece. We scored two goals against the Croatian team but were defeated. We made several mistakes. Asif Mammadov failed to use goal chance. Vugar Nadirovâ€™s strike did not succeed. The Croatians did not fail to use goal chance after it. Namig Yusifov was punished with red card in the 69th minute which complicated our positionâ€. Azerbaijan team posses no point after three matches. Nevertheless the head coach is optimist about the future. Shakir Garibov believed the team will gain points against the Faroes and Albania. â€œWe will try to score goals in the match against the faros and Albania. We held only one match in Baku yet. We will hold many matches. We suffer from time limit. It is difficult to prepare footballers in a short time. This work is to be carried out in clubs first of all. The individual training is needed for that. We do not have many options. We need time to show successful gameâ€.
The head coach denied that he offended the team members after the match with Greece on September 8. â€œI have been living in Baku for 37 years. I received education and enjoy ceratin level. I know what I said and I am not going to apologize to anyone for the expressions that I did not useâ€./APA-Sport/