Kaira Almaty will play the Champions League phase: Why will great candidates want to avoid it?

Kairat Almity eliminated the historic Celtic de Brendan Rodgers by penalties and got into the League phase Champions League. The sensation team It will be one of those who will want to avoid candidates for title for a specific reason.

Almaty is the largest metropolis of Kazakhstan and It is only 330 kilometers from the border with Chinawhich will complicate the agenda of each of the rivals that have to travel there to face the executioner of the legendary Glasgow club.

To take dimension of the location, you can mention the distances that separate it from the cities in which some of the great candidates for the title are located. From Paris, where the last champion lives, he is 5554 kilometers; from Madrid, to 5800.

Another situation that clubs must face is the lack of direct flights. For some, a private charter of more than 11 and a half hours will be option, but others will need scales to reach destination. This Kazakhstan area is as east of Europe as India and closer to Tokyo than from Manchester.

It will be the second team of this country to participate in the Champions League and it will do it just ten years after the Astana did it for the first time. So far they are the only two they managed to classify.

The Kaira Almaty path had a double difficulty over the end

To access the League phase, the Kaira Almity had to leave Slovan Bratislava, Kups, Olimpija and Celtic. In the last key he could not count on his main figure, the boy Dastan Satapev, who was signed by Chelsea at 16 for more than three million euros. It will only leave in 2026, when it turns 18.

Why Kazakhstan competes in UEFA?

Three years after the USSR dissolved in 1991, the Kazakhstan Football Federation joined AFC (Asia), but in 2002 it moved to UEFA with an argument that bases in a geographical detail: five percent of its territory is in Europe.