According to Sport Seh, the Asian Football Confederation, by changing the time of the 2027 Nations Cup, moved the start of this competition from January 7th to December 23rd of the same year. The competition, which was supposed to end on February 5, 2027, will now continue until January 21, 2028; A change that means a 350-day delay in the start of the tournament.
In this situation, the Uzbek media have written about the effect of the postponement of these competitions on the technical program of the Uzbek national team. Based on this, Alisher Nikimbaev, Uzbekistan’s football expert, mentioned in a conversation the opportunities that the change in the time of the matches provides to the national team and its Italian head coach.
He believes that Fabio Cannavaro can continue the experiments he started in the recent Fifadi windows on the composition and tactics of this country’s national team and have more time to get to know the players and reach his desired composition.
Nikimbaev also mentioned two different aspects of this incident; The experienced players of the national team are one year older, but in contrast to the young players, they will have more opportunities to gain experience in the national team.
On the other hand, this postponement does not only affect the schedule of the national team and can also affect the calendar of Uzbekistan’s club competitions.
According to Nikimbaev, changing the time of the Nations Cup will make it possible for the 2026 season of the Uzbekistan League to be longer and a longer distance between matches to reduce the pressure of the games on the players.
Of course, holding competitions in December also brings an important challenge: The condition of football fields in the cold of winter. This is still one of the mysteries of the new Uzbekistan football calendar.
Uzbekistan national team who advanced to the World Cup for the first time in his history, and now he also led the Asian Nations Cup Fabio Cannavaro is ahead Participation in the World Cup and the experience of working with the Italian head coach have increased the expectations of this team, and now the postponement of the matches gives the technical staff more time to prepare. Cannavaro should use this opportunity to stabilize the composition, get to know the young players better and build a harmonious team; Because in the end, it is Uzbekistan’s performance in Saudi Arabia that will determine what this longer wait has achieved for this country’s football.
