by Luca Ranocchiari - Futsalplanet.com editor

Working for the Croatian dream. The Kazakh National team coached by Amirzhan Mukanov began their preparation for the february "big challenges", with obvious refer to the UEFA Futsal Championships 2010 Qualifiers, in which Kazakhstan will move to Baku in order to face the qualifying round group 1 host Azerbaijan, as well as the continental holders Spain and the preliminary group D (Malta as host, Lithuania, France and Bulgaria) winner. Rather than testing their current conditions in friendlies vs other national selection, Mukanov has chosen a "russian trip" characterized by four games against two superleague clubs. The first couple of games took place in Novosibirsk (Dec. 7th and 8th, 50 minute match in "russian style"), with Kazakhstan losing the first 5-2 but conquering the second clash by 4-6. Three days later the national selection was in Tyumen, playing on December 11th and 12th two more games (this time in the 40 minutes way) vs the top russian clubs MFK Tyumen, losing twice (2-1 and 6-3). Below have a look at the roster selected by head coach Amirzhan Mukanov for all games: as you can see Kazakhstan is featuring a quite young team which is a direct consequence of their participation in the Under 21 UEFA Futsal Tournament 2008 in St. Petersburg.


Kazakh National Team - Players List

Goalkeepers
Grigoriy Shamro (1984 - Kairat Almaty)
Konstantin Peremyshlin (1983 - Tulpar Karagandy)
Galimzhan Kosmuhambetov (1988 - Kairat Almaty)

Field Players
Chingiz Yesenamanov (1989 - Tulpar Karagandy)
Dauren Nurgozhin (1988 - Tulpar Karagandy)
Mikhail Pershin (1989 - Tulpar Karagandy)
Aleksandr Dovgan (1988 - Tulpar Karagandy)
Nikolay Pengrin (1984 - Tulpar Karagandy)
Pavel Taku (1988 - Tulpar Karagandy)
Aleksandr Grebonos (1987 - Tulpar Karagandy)
Roman Shorin (1990 - Tulpar Karagandy)
Timur Murzabaev (1989 - Ayat Rudny)
Dinmukhambet Suleimenov (1981 - Kairat Almaty)
Serik Zhamankulov (1983 - Kairat Almaty)
Nikolay Kazakov (1984 - Ayat Rudny)
Vladimir Kovgan (1982 - Ushkyn-Iskra Astana)
Maxim Batov (1980 - Ushkyn-Iskra Astana)
Alexander Yakimenko (1984 - Ayat Rudny)
Danijar Kenzhegulov (1987 - Ayat Rudny)
Vitaliy Alexandrov (1984 - Kairat Almaty)
Stanislav Kononenko (1985 - Arai Aktobe)

Head Coach: Amirzhan Mukanov