Why one of the world’s biggest soccer teams is traveling 4,000 miles to play a Champions League match in Asia

While the song based on Handel’s “Zadok the Priest” has played through television screens in Kazakhstan for years, it had never echoed around Kairat Almaty’s Central Stadium until this summer. “For me, it is a childhood dream,” said Kairat midfielder Adilet Sadybekov during a press conference befor...

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