Andijon
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Struggling Uzbek football club Andijon has sent its players to help bring in the cotton harvest, prompting some social media amusement.
From BBC
FC Andijon was hoping to show its public-spiritedness by publishing the photos on its website and social media, saying "coaches and players are working side by side to bring in the harvest" during the break in local fixtures caused by the national squad competing in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.
From BBC
And some social media users, keen not to single out Andijon, even suggest that the national team might also be of more use in the cotton fields than on the pitch after its recent defeat by Iran.
From BBC
"Andijon footballers went to pick cotton. They have found their metier, and in the right place," journalist Elmurod Ermatov mocked on Twitter.
From BBC
He went on to prove it, massacring hundreds of antigovernment demonstrators in 2005 in the town of Andijon, a center of ethnic, social and economic tension in the fertile Fergana Valley.
From New York Times
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