Uzbekistan has decided to enter the UEFA

Uzbekistan Football Federation (FFU) intends to enter into UEFA. According to the President FFU Miarbrora Usmanov, Uzbekistan national team need to play with strong teams, which in Europe is much higher than in Asia. This Central Asian News Service reported. At present, Uzbekistan is the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

Usmanov said that Uzbekistan does not make sense to go to the soccer world cup to play with a big score. According to the President FFU, if his team can overcome the qualifying tournament in the European area, it has failed to hit in the face of dirt "on the world championship.

In 2002, Kazakhstan became a member of UEFA. The decision to join Football Federation Cup in this country was adopted after lengthy negotiations. Unlike Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan is considered part of Europe.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, Uzbekistan, like other Central Asian republics, offered to enter into UEFA, but the proposal was rejected by FFU and became a member of AFC.

Note Team Cup three times, Uzbekistan has participated in World Cup qualifying tournament in the Asian zone. I get to the world championship Uzbeks were unable to never.

In World Cup qualifying tournament in 2010, after two rounds of Uzbekistan is the last (fifth) in the Asian Qualifying Group 1 Zone. Uzbek rivals in the group are the teams of Qatar, Japan, Australia and Bahrain. Travel at World Cup 2010 will receive two of the best teams from the group. National team, which takes third place, will take part in stykovyh matches.