Ali Kazimov

Thank you so much!

No, of course, i’m not 🙂

Judo and sambo are very similar, besides, before the competition I did freestyle wrestling for three or four months to be able to participate in this competition.

At the age of 13, my father sent me to the judo section, both my father and grandfather trained this sport when they were young.

So, the reason why I started training in Poland, is my coach in Azerbaijan, Rashad Hasanov. Polish National Team invited him to the Poland. And now he’s the main coach of the Polish National Team.
He said me that I could come here, study and train. So I started!

I can say every day, and when I’m not working out twice a day.

My father always supports me. He keeps interested in my successes and in my studies also. I can say he’s the reason why I stay motivated and dedicated!

A friend of my father from the Apply-UNI Education Abroad company recommended this university to me ’cause I had to go to Poland to see a coach and needed to go somewhere to study at the same time. And also I heard a lot of good things about this university from other students.

Management is a very advanced field, and after graduating I think that I could work in many places. I’m also thinking about opening a personal business in the future, maybe related to sports.

So I really like that professors at this university are really helpful. And even when I have some problems, they all the time help me to solve it. I really like that.

Yes, it actually helps a lot, of course, combining sports and study is very difficult, but judo is a sport that forces a person to be patient and disciplined. And these qualities are very important in life.

It means also patience in my language and the same in Arabic 🙂

I really like Poland. My last result was in 2019 in Baku, I took second place. After that I did not give any results for a long time, but when I came here I showed myself so well! I advise everyone who intends to come here to be patient because at first it will seem that everything is difficult, there is no opportunity to perform due to problems with documents and so on, but  sooner or later you will achieve success if you work hard!

Taking this opportunity, I would like to thank to Judo Club Ris and and Kavkaz Warsaw Zapasy club. These clubs really helped me. I really appreciate that.  And of course, first of all, I want to thank God for everything. Because everything what I have, it’s just because of God.

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We thank Ali for the interview and wish best of luck in sports, studies and future business!

Alona Trokhymchuk,
UEHS in Warsaw