Yesterday, the winner of the Golden Ball award was announced: Ousmane Dembele — striker of the PSG club and the French national team. When France is mentioned, it is impossible not to remember the match to be held on October 10. There are exactly 17 days left until the next match of the Azerbaijani national football team in the qualifying stage of the World Cup. It is not clear who will be behind the wheel of our team. There is one person who is at the top of the list of candidates. Not only AFFA, but everyone who has hopes for our football has turned their attention to this head coach — Aykhan Abbasov.

17 days left. Maybe it is not enough, but it is not difficult to put the players on the field for 1 day, to draw after a devastating defeat with a score of 0:5. More difficult days are coming, but has the Azerbaijani national team had an easy day? Aykhan Abbasov cannot be blamed for his hesitation. They have put a team in ashes before them. But I have seen with my own eyes that "Sumgayit", and later "Turan Tovuz" fell into disrepair under his leadership. We need a good gardener who can make flowers from ashes. The land is ours?! Is our land really capable of producing footballers. So is there a better choice than entrusting the place that foreigners have burned to the ground to A. Abbasov?

As for AFFA, it should give reassurance: Aykhan Abbasov must support him in the upcoming matches, regardless of the outcome. I don't want the main stage of the European Championship or the World Championship, and none of us should wait. What we want is a fighting national team. We have been burned a lot. From now on, let's fight even if we win against other national teams, draw or lose. We saw this in the game against Ukraine. I don't believe that anyone other than Aykhan Abbasov will achieve this in the following matches.

Gunay Khalil