Whatever happened to Sabina Altynbekova 2020 | "The girl too beautiful to play volleyball"? 🇰🇿🏐
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- When Sabina Altynbekova burst onto the global volleyball stage at the 2014 Asian Under-19 Championships in Taiwan she created quite a stir.
Just 17 years old and 1.82m in height (6ft), she was described as too beautiful for the sport even by her then Kazakhstan coach Nurlin Sadikov.
“It is impossible to work like this,” Sadikov was quoted as saying. “The crowd behaves like there is only one player at the championship.”
It was an uncomfortable baptism of fire in international sport for outside hitter Altynbekova, who herself bemoaned: “I was flattered at first but it’s all getting a little bit much. I want to concentrate on playing volleyball and to be famous for that, not anything else.”
Despite the resulting publicity and subsequent modelling offers Altynbekova’s parents reportedly pushed back on anything which would see her building a career on her looks. She just wanted to play volleyball - the media myth did not match the reality.
Six years on and Altynbekova - now 23 - is still pursuing her volleyball dream, but with little of the fanfare which accompanied her entrance onto the world stage.
Where is Sabina Altynbekova now?
A much-heralded spell in Japan followed Altynbekova’s breakthrough when major local sports agency Dentsu acquired her exclusive marketing rights on a one-year deal in late 2015. This was reportedly the first time it had acquired the rights to an athlete from outside Japan.
Altynbekova joined Japanese team GSS Sunbeams in the third-tier V. Challenge League II and there was hope she could fare well enough to claim a spot in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. However her time in Japan was short-lived and she returned home to Kazakhstan.
Since then, Altynbekova has widened her volleyball horizons again to head for Dubai and a professional career with the Al-Wasl club - once famous for having the legendary Diego Maradona as coach of its soccer team.
As well as her association with Al-Wasl, Altynbekova still also plies her trade in Kazakhstan for part of the year. She has been associated with the Almaty club since 2017.
From an international standpoint Altynbekova was not part of the Kazakhstan roster which finished 24th at the 2018 World Championships.
Sabina Altynbekova on Instagram
Sabina, born in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on November 5, 1996, shares her best life with her fans on social media despite being largely left alone by the mainstream news outlets these days.
Her official Instagram page now boasts more than 828,000 followers, who are kept up to date with her life on and off the volleyball court.
Proof of her enduring stardom comes in the way of posts which have seen her pictured with celebrities like Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma and former Barcelona and Real Madrid football star Luis Figo.
Sabina Altynbekova religion
Sabina Altynbekova is Muslim and often posts images on her Instagram page wearing the traditional hijab, and marks special dates in the religious calendar.
She has also posted from holy sites such as the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, and her messages like these attract huge response and warmth from her global fan base.
Sabina Altynbekova fashion brand
As befits a star athlete with a big social media following, it was almost inevitable that Sabina Altynbekova would launch her own fashion brand.
And so it was that her S20 brand (in homage to her volleyball jersey number) launched in 2017, operating out of Almaty and majoring on tracksuits, sweatshirts and T-shirts.
Sabina Altynbekova family
Sabina Altynbekova is the daughter of Abay (father) and Nuripa (mother) Altynbekova.
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Comments: model go haha
To believe she was such a star back then when I was a senior and now here I am actually wondering what happened to her. Glad she's living her life now
she's now married with 5 kids
She looks so different now :( she no longer looks like an anime but she's still pretty
@@touristfromearth she has 1 kid)
She should be a super model, she is beyond stunning.
She should be a volleyball player as she wants to
@@zerere_ She can do whatever she wants to do, just saying she could also be a super model.
Only a non-asian would think this.
@@thomastessier4529 you said she "should" like go outside
@@zerere_ ✊
Beauty comes with pros and cons and one of those cons is people taking away your credit of doing all the hard work and only looking at your physical beauty. To them they only value your face instead of your actual skills :/
She is married and have a baby. That's happiness for a woman. A good family with children.
From Kazakhstan.
@@helloworld-ti5zs I wouldn’t speak for everybody. To some women their dreams are something else.
Her beauty, such a blessing and a curse at the same time
Kazakhstan people have both Asian and western gene. They are beautiful people.
Western? Wtf r u talking about my dumbass friend
95 % asian
@@Belle75468 exactly. You haven't seen other Kazakh people who have green eyes
Due to Mongol invasion. mongol heritage.
By "Western" you mean Russian?
She looks like a real life anime. I thought she would be big in Japan
She is not Japanese.
Am kazakh soo let dis girl play vollyball she is beautiful does not mean she cant play it is her life nomatter what they look like I also love playing volley ball suler fun
she doesn't need to famous for volleyball girl! she is already pretty and famous. Born this way
A beauty to die for. 😍😍😍
She is married for sure by now. And they live happily ever after.
Yes . She is married and have a baby.
I have been in Almaty, a few times, and there were some women there I saw that was as much or even more eyed popping than Sabina' Kazakhstan does their women correctly' OMG!!!
Why the hell beauty made a distraction at sport i think she's got the talent and beauty all she knows just want a sport ..maybe others didn't like it
Many kasakh woman are beautiful!
She is a actually good player . I hope people know.
Сондай нәзік, тартымды, сүйкімді қыз.
thank you for making this video
I hope dimash get her
Wow She looks like anime girl 😍
My baybi sabina
Сабина круче чем Сабянин
I don't get it. She's pretty and tall, OK, but there are many pretty women in volley and other sports.
The thing is she looks like an anime character.
Тенинди таап Бактылуу бол карындаш
She can be a kpop idol
She doesn't need that.
I thought it was funny at first that we share the same name but we also share the same birthday😐i-..
Hi my friend good lucky
Wowww .,...
She's now happily married to me, sorry boys.
Impossible 😂😂
yeah, forever in your wet dream
What that dancing girl at the end was her.
Damn I knew her long ago then.
Great
Ti ammo 😃 ❤😻
Долбан не ти аммо а тэ амо мамбет чомба
👍👍👍❤️
18 sA is gone look odd now
So brief lasted a couple of years
It is kinda like Bruce Lee we see in screen of youth
Nice✌🏻👌🏻😘
Ad dktr khusus buat kesehatan yg ngetahuanya tidak seimbng dengan dunia
ilove you you and my see 2025 in widding
Sabina yuk lajut sarapan pagi sygku
Ito pala yung crush ni Azi ampotek😂
tangot kahit sino magkaka crush dyan napakaganda nyan
She's already married that's why I unfollow her on Instagram
you and my widding
Macth i now
Marking no
Sluu qiz Altinbekova...
Bruh Who the fu** think that Girl is beautyfull
Married happen
She was being dated by Gennady Golovkin.
Waifu ♥
I think she got eyelid surgery, her eyes look different than before
Yeaj true
Ikr
I don't think so,it's not surgery, she just grew her eyelashes. This is a very popular procedure in Kazakhstan
@@linalia7248 her eyes totally have changed and it's not because eyelashes
So sad. Maybe she didn't want to look like the perfect anime girl.
Too bad ... what a waste
Johnny sins
hmmmmm too bad about the ya know....
What is her only fans account?
Тебе хижаб харошо паказвует
Her religion background pushed her back, otherwise she could be really successful in her life other than being just a volleyball player.
Here comes the atheist who blames everything on religion
She should be model, no player
Nah
She look like Japanese mixed with Russian..
Central Asia, maybe some Mongolian and Russian given history. I can’t imagine Japanese tho 🤨
Central Asians have Turkic genetic (Turkey's Turks are Oguz descent Turkic and most of the Central Asians are Kipchak descent Turkic). Stop saying Mongolid for God's sake!!
@@StarDust-th6fm Just because the Russian Empire and Soviet Union colonized and even genocided Kazakhs does not mean they have Russian ancestry or mixture. If that were so, they would be Orthodox Christians not Muslims. There are Russians, but most Kazakhs are not Russian.
萨宾娜
Overrated
For you ahole. She looks like anime
Most beautiful in Kazakhstan but not in the universe. The most beautiful in the universe is Gi Hyeonggyo from Taiwan.
What about Oikawa from Haikyu???
OMFG SHSHSHAHSHDHAKD
He is jogging
i hate the fact that she only wanted to play volleyball back then but she can't bc all of the people in the world care is about her look which sucks bc she look like a good player...
Sabina already happily merried ... and i think she is expecting a baby boy ...i saw in her IG
Religion is a big part of sabina's life 😚
Idnya asli klu asli bisa trbng k plaet dan ini tidak ad yg bisa
Самого любим девочка в мире я ево очен люблю