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  •   Home > News > Sports > Soccer

    Kyrgyzstan have been forced to play a World Cup qualifying match with a defender in goal because all three of the national team's keepers were self-isolating after a COVID-19 outbreak

    Kyrgyzstan have been forced to play a World Cup qualifying match with a defender in goal because all three of the national team's keepers were self-isolating after a COVID-19 outbreak


    Defender Aizar Akmatov instead played between the posts in the 1-nil home loss to Mongolia in Group F.

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