Stadiums+in+Tashkent

Stadiums in Tashkent
==Nowadays sport in Uzbekistan is developing day by day. Especially the Government pay special attention on Football. Football is not the game of millions but milliards. At the moment there are two nice stadiums in Tashkent city. They are separate with their architectural structure and appearance from other stadiums of the World. These are “the Central Stadium of Pakhtakor” and “JAR” Stadium.==

CENTRAL PAKHTAKOR STADIUM
The Central Stadium of Uzbekistan – “Pakhtakor” situated in Tashkent. This stadium was built in 1956. It was built by the Uzbek people. The Uzbek people participated in the construction of the stadium voluntarily, without any salary. The construction began in 1954 and finished 1956. That time the Stadium could seat more than 55 000 people. As soon as the stadium was built a new football team “Pakhtakor” was established. The word “Pakhtakor” means “cotton picker”. Cause of giving this name is that cotton is the national wealth of the Uzbek people.



THE HISTORY OF THE STADIUM
The first match in the new stadium was held on August 20, 1956. On September 19, 1956 the first international match was held and Pakhtakor played against Dinamo (Albania) and Pakhtakor won the match. In that year the Olympic football team of the Soviet Union prepared the Melbourne Olympic Games and held unofficial matches in this stadium and the team got the gold medal in that Olympic Games. In 1996, the stadium was reconstructed and it changed completely. The reconstruction works was done by the Turkish masters. In design of it you can see yellow and blue colors and these colors can be seen on the uniform of the team. The special, separate, comfortable seats for every football fan. From that time the stadium can seat more than 35 000 people. The amount of the seats decreased but now the modern stadiums being built in Europe can also seat that amount of football fans.



STADIUM NOWADAYS
The size of newly fixed score-board is 11x8.5 meters. This score-board has got many opportunities. With this equipment the members of teams, scored goals and their shooters, brief videos from previous matches, the condition of competitions, different advertisements, clips, the live TV variant of matches can be shown. Exactly such kind of score-board was used in last Olympic Games in Beijing.



In order to supply information well the newest audio gadgets, to show ads on three sides of the ground there is electron equipment. The light system produced by “Philips” can meet the requirements of the FIFA and can supply 1200 degree light.



There are special, comfortable seats for the coaches of the teams and other football players, special sectors for the guests of high rank and reporters, modern monitors to watch parallel matches.



In design of the building there is conformity of the decoration styles of the East and the West. The rooms for reporters are very convenient, well-decorated and they use the most modern equipments. Under the sectors there are rooms for meetings between journalists and coaches and football players.





= This stadium witnessed great victories of our “Pakhtakor”, such as =

Pakhtakor-Inter(Italia) 2-1 Pakhtakor-National(Uruguay) 3-1 Pakhtakor-Roma(Italia) 2-1 Pakhtakor-Tulusa(France) 1-0… In the 70th Dinamo Kiev was the strongest football club in Europe. That time in this Pkhtakor won over Dinamo Kiev at the score 5-0.



In 2006, the ceremony of 50th anniversary the Stadium and the Club was celebrated and in the unofficial match Pakhtakor beat Torpedo (Russia).

JAR STADIUM




JAR stadium is the second best stadium after Pakhtakor Stadium in Tashkent. Since the Independence of Uzbekistan many beautiful buildings, sport complexes have been built. The government has paid special attention to the development of sport in Uzbekistan. With this aim sport complex JAR were built. JAR Stadium is not separate. It is a part of JAR sport complex. It was built for 3 years and it’s construction was completely finished in 1998. Its opening ceremony took place on August 25. It was the best present for the 7th anniversary of our independence. More than 4 billion Uzbek Soums was spent on construction works. The construction was organized in association with Japanese architects. The head architect’s name was Abduqahhor Ruzmetov which is one of the best architects of Central Asia.



The Stadium is not big but very comfortable and take all the requirements of Asian Football Confederation. For example the Projectors are the most modern and made in Germany. The field was covered with natural excellent grass and brought from the Netherlands. The capacity of it is more than 10000 people. The seats are separate and comfortable.



The design of stadium is in modern style and inside of it was decorated in traditional style. It is the home stadium of football club Bunyodkor. Under the seats there are two conference halls for journalists, several washing room, fitness hall, dining rooms, rooms for dressing and undressing, a big hall for translation, a store to sell the uniforms, football balls of Bunyodkor and football equipments, a museum which informs about successful victories. There are several halls for special guests. The translation room was furnished with the most modern technology and the matches are spread all over the world by on-line. There are special mini cars to carry hurt players.





The complex includes three covered swimming pools, several tennis, volleyball, basketball courts, halls for chess, ping-pong, wrestling, karate, judo and etc. There are three smaller stadiums for training except the main stadium. Thousands of sportsmen train in this huge complex. Different Asian, world championships are hold there. The complex was built in modern style. Inside the halls, gyms are very well decorated. The condition for sportsmen is well organized. Dining rooms, washing rooms, a restaurant, resting rooms for guests are so clean and in well condition. There is a center in case somebody hurt. In this complex many world and Asian champions have been grown up.



This stadium shows how our government pays attention to the development of sport in Uzbekistan.







==To tell the truth they are not as big and well build as the stadiums in Europe but now considering people’s interest in football a new stadium “Bunyodkor Stadium” is being build. It will not worse than Europe’s stadiums. The main goal from these cases is make the young healthy, millions of football fans in Uzbekistan happy and improve our football as the President I.A Karimov said:==