MANCHESTER, Ingila – Abdukodir Khusanov, dan wasan tsakiya na Uzbekistan, ya sanya hannu kan kwantiragi da Manchester City a ranar Litinin, inda ya zama dan wasa na farko daga kasarsa da zai buga wa kungiyar gasar Premier League. Kusan shekaru hudu da suka wuce, Khusanov ya fito daga matsayi na rashin amincewa a gida zuwa daya daga cikin manyan ‘yan wasan da ake sa ran gaba a duniya.
Khusanov, wanda yake da shekaru 20, ya fara tafiyar sa a matakin kwararru a shekarar 2020 lokacin da ya shiga kungiyar Energetik-BGU ta Belarus. A nan ne ya fara nuna basirarsa, inda ya taimaka wa kungiyar samun matsayi na biyu a gasar firimiya ta Belarus a shekarar 2022. Aikin sa ya jawo hankalin kungiyar Lens ta Faransa, wadda ta sanya hannu kan sa a shekarar 2023.
“Ba wanda ya san shi lokacin da ya zo Lens,” in ji Luke Entwistle, editan Get French Football News. “Ya kasance dan wasa da ba a san ko wanene ba. Ya yi wasa sosai a kakar wasa ta farko, amma lokacin da ya samu damar shiga cikin tsaron gida, sai ka ga wani abu na musamman a cikinsa.”
A kakar wasa ta yanzu, Khusanov ya yi wasa sau 13 a gasar Ligue 1, inda ya fara wasa sau 11. Dan wasan ya samu yabo daga abokan wasansa, ciki har da tsohon mai tsaron gida na Lens Brice Samba, wanda ya ce Khusanov “yana da makoma mai girma a nan gaba.”
Khusanov ya kuma taka rawar gani a tawagar Uzbekistan ta kasa da shekaru 20, inda ya taimaka wa kungiyar lashe gasar AFC U-20 Asian Cup a shekarar 2023. A gasar cin kofin duniya ta U-20 da aka gudanar a watan Mayu 2023, ya jawo hankalin manazarta Lens, wanda ya sa kungiyar ta sanya hannu kan sa.
“Yana da karfin tsaro, kuma yana da saurin gudu wanda ke ba shi damar komawa cikin sauri,” in ji Thomas Bullock, mai bincike kan wasan kwallon kafa na Asiya ta Tsakiya. “Yana da kwarin gwiwa wajen tura wasa zuwa tsakiya, kuma yana da karfi a cikin fafatawa.”
Duk da haka, Khusanov ba zai iya zama maganin gaggawa ga tsaron Manchester City ba, wanda ke da matsalolin tsaro a wasu lokuta. “Yana da basira, amma City suna sayen yuwuwar sa,” in ji Julien Laurens, mai sharhin wasanni na Faransa. “Ba shi da shiri don fara kowane wasa. City suna fatan suna samun dan wasan tsakiya na gaba.”
Khusanov ya ce ya yi farin ciki da shiga Manchester City, inda ya bayyana cewa ya shiga “kungiya mafi kyau, tare da koci mafi kyau, kuma yana wasa a gasar mafi kyau.”
