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BANGKOK, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Maxim Shatskykh scored five goals to help Uzbekistan hammer a hapless Taiwan 9-0 in their opening 2010 World Cup qualifier in Tashkent on Saturday.
The Uzbek captain bagged his hat-trick inside 35 minutes and added a fourth in the 67th minute after Timur Kapadze (26) Viktor Karpenko (44) and Ulugbek Bakayev (55) had put the hosts six goals up.
Shavkat Salomov increased the lead for the former Asian Cup champions on 69 minutes before Shatskykh netted his fifth 13 minutes from time.
The former Soviet republic, who are 62nd in the FIFA rankings, have never qualified for the World Cup finals and made a humiliating first-round exit to Bahrain in qualification for the 2006 tournament.
