From soccernet.com:

Kazakhstan draw in debut as UEFA members
By Sebastian Alison

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan have outplayed Estonia but were held to a 1-1 draw in their first international as a member of European soccer union UEFA.
Both goals came within two minutes at the end of the first half, Oleg Litvinenko putting Kazakhstan ahead after 38 minutes before Meelis Rooba equalised two minutes later.

Kazakhstan, inspired by substitute Alibek Buleshev, dominated after the break but could not score again on a hot summer evening in Almaty.

'It was an average match but Kazakhstan had the better chances,' Alim Anapyanov, editor of the Kazakh twice-weekly newspaper Pro-Sport, said. 'You can say we've registered as Europeans. A draw in our first game in Europe isn't bad.'

Kazakhstan, formerly part of the Asian Football Confederation, is the most distant of UEFA's territories, with Almaty just a four hour drive from the Chinese border.

The vast Central Asian state, five times the size of France but with just 15 million people, joined UEFA on April 25 after successfully applying for membership.

'Several people noted that Kazakhstan played better against European opposition than Asian,' Yuri Lifintsev, football correspondent of the official Kazakhstanskaya Pravda newspaper, and a football writer for 32 years, told Reuters.

He said teams such as Feyenoord of the Netherlands, Zaragoza of Spain and even Fluminense of Brazil had played teams in Kazakhstan and got the best out of local sides.

In Soviet times the country's top team, Kairat, played in the top Soviet division, and the European style of Soviet soccer dominated Kazakhstan. 'All our lives we've played as Europeans,' Lifintsev said.