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FIFA.com takes a look at Uzbekistan, who collected the FIFA Fair Play Award at Monday's FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala, with the Central Asian nation having made rapid growth in recent times with more milestones on the horizon.

Mirdjalal Kasimov speaks to FIFA.com about his Uzbekistan side’s slow start to the final phase of Asian Zone qualifying, what they must do to reach Brazil 2014, and losing his country’s all-time scoring record to Maksim Shatskikh.