Rafael Urazbakhtin geed his players up for the 'most important match of their lives' next week
10:07, 21 Aug 2025
Rafael Urazbakhtin delivers the post-match team talk
Rafael Urazbakhtin delivers the post-match team talk(Image: FC Kairat / Instagram)
Incredible footage has emerges of Kairat Almaty boss Rafael Urazbakhtin telling his players to prepare for the 'match of their lives' next week after rocking Celtic in the Champions League.
But they will have to do it without Chelsea-bound Dastan Satpayev, who is suspended for the return.
Celtic were held to a goalless draw by Kairat in the first leg of the play-offs and now have it all to do in the Asian outpost next week.
No Scottish side has ever won in Kazakhstan in seven attempts and the Hoops face a gruelling 3,500-mile journey to get to the former Soviet nation.
Kairat will be without their 17-year-old wonderkid after Satpayev collected his third booking of the competition. He will move to Chelsea next summer in a £3.5 million deal
And Kairat boss Urazbakhtin has told his players they have a chance to make history by becoming the first side from Kazakhstan to ever make it through to the main stages of the Champions League.
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In a speech in the away Parkhead dressing room filmed by his club, he told his players: "We are now one step away from our dream. And for most of us, next week will be the most important match of our lives.
"I am not afraid to say this. It's now very important to go home, rest, recover and then realise our dream next week.
"We hold the key here by what we do in our legs and in our heads. I want to thank you players from the bottom of my heart for the work you've done out there.
"You deserve a lot of credit for this. As I told you before the game, everything depends on us. Everything is possible. Football is like that. And you saw for yourself that you can play at a good level against a good opponent."
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