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This kid was wearing a AC Milan shirt and cracked up when I pointed at the club emblem. Football is such a universal language and in Turkmenistan I saw loads of kids wearing football jerseys, most of them from the Spanish and Italian leagues. According to my guide the domestic top-tier league, the Ýokary Liga, is of poor quality. It consists of ten teams, four of them belonging in Ashgabat.
In the 2009 season University team HTTU Aşgabat won the series. Interesting since, if you measure them on the capacity of their home arena located on the grounds of the International Turkmen-Turkish University, they´re the smallest team in the country - the arena packs a measly 1000 people. This season however it looks like FC Balkan out of Balkanabat, formerly a team made up of workers in the oil industry, will win the league.
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This kid was wearing a AC Milan shirt and cracked up when I pointed at the club emblem. Football is such a universal language and in Turkmenistan I saw loads of kids wearing football jerseys, most of them from the Spanish and Italian leagues. According to my guide the domestic top-tier league, the Ýokary Liga, is of poor quality. It consists of ten teams, four of them belonging in Ashgabat.
In the 2009 season University team HTTU Aşgabat won the series. Interesting since, if you measure them on the capacity of their home arena located on the grounds of the International Turkmen-Turkish University, they´re the smallest team in the country - the arena packs a measly 1000 people. This season however it looks like FC Balkan out of Balkanabat, formerly a team made up of workers in the oil industry, will win the league.