▪️Kenya’s national team head coach Musa Benjamin brushes aside such remarks attributing them to hatred and people with no knowledge on the role of coaches during overseas international tournaments
March 2, 2026
Newly-crowned Strandja Memorial Tournament champions, Uzbekistan, is a serious boxing nation.
The head of Uzbekistan’s delegation to Sofia, Bulgaria, for The Strandja event, Mirzohid Numonov told boxersworld.co.ke they had 14 coaches in Sofia.
“Two of them were head coaches and one a National Technical Director,” explained Mirzohid, adding: “In Uzbekistan we have proper boxing structures and our government is very supportive, if you don’t plan to win then you’re planning to fail.”
Uzbekistan had over 30 boxers in Sofia.
In Africa, the big number of coaches would be labelled joyriders by the keyboard warriors on social media.
“It’s all due to hatred and lack of knowledge on the functions of coaches in big tournaments,” Kenya’s national team head coach Musa Benjamin told boxersworld.co.ke
In the picture, far left is the head coach of Uzbekistan women’s team Elshod Rasulov and his team of coaches with featherweight Nikita Ruksamova.
