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‘It’s brought the country together’

Walking away at the top is hard but after bringing unprecedented levels of success to the footballing backwater of Tajikistan, Petar Segrt has done just that.

After winning the 2022 King’s Cup in Thailand and the Merdeka Tournament in Malaysia last October, the veteran Croatian took his unheralded side to the quarter-finals of this year’s Asian Cup in Qatar

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