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Azerbaijan Sport

Azerbaijan Sport. Bakharam Akhmedzadeh. Wrestling. Wrestling remains a historically important sport of Azerbaijan and often referred to as its national sport. Both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, particularly freestyle, are popular in Azerbaijan.

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Azerbaijan Sport

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  1. Azerbaijan Sport Bakharam Akhmedzadeh

  2. Wrestling Wrestling remains a historically important sport of Azerbaijan and often referred to as its national sport. Both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, particularly freestyle, are popular in Azerbaijan. With a history of great wrestlers, such as Namig Abdullayev, Farid Mansurov,Rovshan Bayramov,Sharif Sharifov, Togrul Asgarov and Mariya Stadnik. Azerbaijan considered among the elite nations in thissport In 2012 Togrul Asgarov and Sharif Sharifov became wrestling champion.

  3. Chess Azerbaijan is known as one of the chess superpowers despite the collapse of the Sovet Union, chess is still extremely popular. Notable chess players of Azerbaijan includes Teimour Radjabov, Shahriyar Mammadyarov, Vugar Gashimov and Zeinab Mamedyarova. Azerbaijan has also hosted many international chess tournaments and competitions and became European Team Chess Championship winners in 2009. In 2009, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev issued an order to improve development of chess in the Azerbaijan from 2009 to 2014 period.

  4. Football • Football is the most popular sport in Azerbaijan. The most internationally known players are Rashad Sadygov and Vagif Javadov, who played for PFC Neftchi Baku, FK Karabakh, Kayserispor, Kocaelispor and Azerbaijan national football team. Other famous Azerbaijani players include Zaur Ramazanov, Kazbek Tuayev, Nazim Suleymanov, Vali Gasimov, Gurban Gurbanov, Vidadi Rzayev, Zaur Tagizade and Mahmud Gurbanov. • The 1960s are considered the Golden Age for Azerbaijani football, as they produced great players like Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Alakbar Mammadov and football referee Tofik Bakhramov, who’s most famous for being linesman who helped to award a goal for England in the 1966 World Cup Final between England and West Germany. • The top football teams in Azerbaijan are FK Baku, PFC Neftchi Baku, FK Karabakh and Khazar Lankaran. On March 19, 2010, Azerbaijan won the bid to host the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup.

  5. Martial Arts • Martial Arts like judo have also brought many medals to this country, namely Elnur Mammadli who conquered gold at the European Championships and 2008 Summer Olympics in the-73 kg category. However, his Olympic opponent, Wang Ki-Chun, suffered ribcage fracture when Brazil’s Leonardo Guiheiro hit him with an elbow in the quarterfinal. Movlud Miraliyev won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and World Judo Championship in 2003.

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