{"id":26,"date":"2002-04-26T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-26T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2012-12-13T11:21:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:21:16","slug":"the-ball-visits-nurafshon-bukhara-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/26\/the-ball-visits-nurafshon-bukhara-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ball visits Nurafshon Bukhara FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/bukhara\/bfc_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Bukhara FC Logo\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Nurafshan Bukhara FC Logo<\/p>\n<p>While in Bukhara, we took the opportunity to visit Nurafshon Bukhara FC, who are currently lying 8th in the Uzbekistan Premier League. The visit was organised by the ever-efficient Shukhrat, who accompanied us to the training ground to meet the players and staff&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ball visits Nurafshon Bukhara\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U2grZEzC7Yc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>In colour, in motion, and as the dogs say in Moscow, &#8220;harasho&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/the-ball-visits-nurafshon-bukhara\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/bukhara\/bfc_man1.jpg\" alt=\"Bukhara FC Trainer\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nBukhara FC Trainer<\/p>\n<p>We met the trainer, (name in cyrillic, will update when I can&#8230; sorry, my friend) who filled us in on the club&#8217;s history and current standing in the league.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/bukhara\/bfc_man2.jpg\" alt=\"Bukhara FC Assistant Trainer\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nBukhara FC Assistant Trainer<\/p>\n<p>His assistant kindly arranged for us to train with the team, but, all of us being well past the playing age of anyone other than a goalkeeper, we politely declined. Phil and Chris were, however, kept happily amused taking shots at the keeper for half an hour or so, until they were told that he had to do something to actually exercise his skills.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/bukhara\/bfc_phil_rich.jpg\" alt=\"Phil and Rich, proud of their banners\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nPhil and Rich, proud of the banners given to them by the club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/bukhara\/uz_bukh_fc_pendant.jpg\" alt=\"The Nurafshon Bukhara banner\" style=\"width: 240px;height: 384px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/bukhara\/bfc_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Bukhara FC Logo\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Nurafshan Bukhara FC Logo<\/p>\n<p>While in Bukhara, we took the opportunity to visit Nurafshon Bukhara FC, who are currently lying 8th in the Uzbekistan Premier League. The visit was organised by the ever-efficient Shukhrat, who accompanied us to the training ground to meet the players and staff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uzbekistan"],"geo":{"latitude":39.76848600000000288900992018170654773712158203125,"longitude":64.42562870000000430081854574382305145263671875,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}