Representatives of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan met with the player of the Russian national team and the Moscow CSKA team Ilzat Akhmetov.
At the capital airport, Russia’s best young player of in 2018 met with representatives of the capital's Uyghur ethno-cultural center.
Ilzat Akhmetov is an ethnic Uighur from Bishkek. He is the only representative of the Uighur minority who plays at such a high level.
At the age of 16 he made his debut in the main squad of Rubin, and in the summer of 2018 he signed a four-year contract with CSKA Moscow. In March 2019, Ilzat made his debut for the Russian national team in the Euro 2020 qualifying match against Belgium. In the game with the national team of Kazakhstan came out in the starting lineup. According to transfermark.com, the transfer value of the player is 6 million euros.
Chairman of the cultural center of the capital, a member of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan Rustam Abdusalamov wished the young talent success and had a conversation with a head coach of the Russian national team Stanislav Cherchesov.