Today, it was held a press conference at Caucasus Sport Hotel about the boxing match to start tomorrow between Gabala and Fenerbahce. With the meeting, SC Gabala also presented to the mass media new coach of the boxing team Lazaro Martinez Jimenez from Cuba. The event was joined by heads of the Boxing Departments of both SC Gabala and SC Fenerbahce -- Fariz Mammadov and Mert Oztemel, as well as, Lazaro and his colleague from Fenebahce Suleyman Ozturk.

The first target of the questions was Fariz Mammadov who revealed the name of the initiator of the tomorrow"s match.

--"We have close contacts with Fenerbahce. They said they would visit Azerbaijan on invitation. In fact, this match was encouraged by international category coach of Turkey Kibar Tatar and we found accepted the idea with great pleasure.

We are having the boxing department almost for 5 months. The boxers are the  boys I worked together in trainings. I was a trial rival against some of them during trainings. They fought for no clubs before Gabala. We signed a one-year deal with the new head coach. We may keep the contract going on in case he will go well”.

Lazaro, whose student is three time Olympic champion, expressed his pleasure to come to Azerbaijan before saying the country has some talented boxers.

--"I was appointed to this team recently and I see we are having some talented fighters here. They are the team having high passion that I have never seen before. It seems the team underwent much works on them and we will keep it up. We want to produce a boxer for Olympia to be held in Brazil.

Fariz Mammadov is going to face a champion of Germany in Azerbaijan for coming December”. 

Suleyman Ozturk:

“Our fighters would never abase their rivals that fight weaker than us, so we come on every match strong.

Is a draw possible at the friendly? We will fight at our best. It is not exception to see any Azerbaijani boxer amongst fighters of Fenerbahce. But now we back only on domestic boxers came out from youth groups”.