“Everything gets sadder every year.” Bulat Esmagambetov summed up the results of the football season in Kazakhstan – Football

The national team of Kazakhstan, first under the leadership of Magomed Adiev, claimed to get into the final part of Euro 2024, and then, with the new head coach Stanislav Cherchesov, failed the Nations League miserably, without scoring even once in six games. At the club level, only Astana reached the general stage of European competition, and Almaty’s Kairat became the national champion. Also at the end of December, a new president of the Kazakhstan Football Federation was elected.

A correspondent for the republican Internet portal Sports.kz contacted famous football specialist Bulat Esmagambetovto sum up the results of 2024 in Kazakhstani football.

— Bulat Zholdasovich, has the level of Kazakh football changed in the past year?
— It is generally accepted that the level of football in a country is determined by performances in European…