Oleksandr Aliyev

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Oleksandrovych and the family name is Aliyev.
Oleksandr Aliyev
Personal information
Full name Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Aliyev
Date of birth (1985-02-03) 3 February 1985
Place of birth Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position Right midfielder
Central Midfielder
Club information
Current team
FC Rukh Vynnyky
Number TBD
Youth career
1998–1999 Spartak Moscow
1999–2001 Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2002 Borysfen Boryspil-2 10 (4)
2002–2010 Dynamo Kyiv 51 (17)
2002–2008Dynamo-2 Kyiv 99 (53)
2005–2006Metalurh Zaporizhya (loan) 8 (1)
2010 Lokomotiv Moscow 27 (15)
2011–2013 Dynamo Kyiv 35 (7)
2012Dnipro (loan) 12 (2)
2014–2015 Anzhi Makhachkala 22 (3)
2015– Rukh Vynnyky (amateur)
National team
2001–2002 Ukraine U17 8 (5)
2003–2006 Ukraine U21 30 (8)
2008– Ukraine 28 (6)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:45, 2 June 2015 (UTC).
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:22, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Aliyev (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Алієв), born 3 February 1985 in Khabarovsk, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian footballer of Azerbaijani origin.[1] He recently played as an right midfielder or central midfielder for FC Anzhi Makhachkala. Known for his spectacular free-kick goals. "He is the best free-kick taker in Europe", said Yuri Syomin, ex FC Dynamo Kyiv coach.

Club career

Dynamo Kyiv

Aliyev began his career in Borysfen-2 Boryspil (a second team of FC Borysfen Boryspil) in Druha Liha A. It was a youth club that was participating on the professional level similar to FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv and Aliyev at that time was a minor (underage). In 2002, he joined Dynamo Kyiv where he was featured mostly in Dynamo-2 Kyiv in the Ukrainian First League. He was really successful in the Dynamo-2 so he was loaned of to Ukrainian Premier League side Metalurh Zaporizhya. With Zaporizhya, he managed to get to the Ukrainian Cup finals.

After his loan ended, Aliyev was promoted to the main team of Dynamo, where he began to shine especially under new Russian head coach Yuri Semin during the 2008–2009 season. In September 2008 Ukraine legend Serhiy Rebrov hailed Aliyev's transformation into a "team player", when he thought "Aliyev was just about fun". He was key in Dynamo's campaign in the UEFA Champions League 2008-09. On 21 October 2008 he scored a beautifully flighted free kick from at least 30 yards out to give Dynamo Kiev the win against FC Porto. On 25 November, at the end of the game against Arsenal, Aliyev pushed the referee, Alain Hamer, and received a red card for his action. Later, during the interview he called Hamer a "kozel" (the goat -eng.) which means similarly to "idiot" in this context.[2] Dynamo Kyiv finished third in their Champions League group, moving down to UEFA Cup 2008-09 after the winter break. Aliyev was an instrumental player throughout the campaign here too. He played in most of the games, helping Dynamo get to the semi-finals, where they were eliminated by fellow Ukrainian rivals, and eventual UEFA Cup Champions Shakhtar Donetsk. Dynamo also won the Ukrainian Premier League 2008-09 that season as well. Later in 2009–10 season he was a part of starting lineup for Ukrainian Super Cup match against Vorskla Poltava. After a few minutes in that game he got injured and missed few months of the starting season. On recovery Aliyev was not able to secure a starting position and asked for a transfer during the winter break.

Lokomotiv Moscow

As soon as the first half of Ukrainian Premier League 2009-10 Aliyev began negotiations with Lokomotiv Moscow in the Russian Premier League.[3] These negotiations failed and Aliyev remained a Dynamo player[4] until 1 February 2010, when Lokomotiv officially announced the signing of Aliyev to a three-year contract.[5]

Anzhi Makhachkala

In January 2014 Aliyev moved from Dynamo Kyiv to Anzhi Makhachkala on a 2.5-year contract.[6] Aliyev left Anzhi at the end of the 2013-14 by mutual consent. Shortly thereafter, he re-signed with Anzhi again, before having his contract terminated by mutually consent in January 2015.[7]

International career

Aliyev playing for Ukraine in 2009.

Aliyev played the under-20 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in Netherlands. He was one of the top scorers of the tournament with five goals, one less than Lionel Messi, the top scorer. Aliyev also played in the Ukraine national under-21 football team in the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, helping his side reach the final. His set piece goal from more than 40 yards that hit the cross-bar and went in against Turkey in the U-21 Championship has been regarded as one of the best goals in U-21 Football history. He is the current top goalscorer of the Ukrainian under-21 team with eight goals.

On 6 September 2008, Aliyev got his first senior cap for Ukraine. He was substituted on for Maksym Kalynychenko starting from the second half.

International goals

As of 11 November 2011
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 25 May 2010 Kharkiv, Ukraine  Lithuania 4–0 Won Friendly
2.
3. 29 May 2010 Lviv, Ukraine  Romania 3–2 Won Friendly
4. 11 August 2010 Donetsk, Ukraine  Netherlands 1–1 Draw Friendly
5. 7 September 2010 Kiev, Ukraine  Chile 2–1 Won Friendly
6. 11 October 2011 Tallinn, Estonia  Estonia 0–2 Won Friendly

Career statistics

As of 4 November 2014
Club Season League Cup Europe Super Cup Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Borysfen Boryspil-2 2001–02 104000000104
Dynamo Kyiv 2002–03 2020000040
2003–04 2010000030
2004–05 0000000000
2005–06 51311010102
Metalurh Z 2005–06 81310000112
Dynamo Kyiv 2006–07 3020100060
2007–08 103310010144
2008–09 261310164104417
2009–10 3010101060
Lokomotiv M 2010 25140021002715
Dynamo Kyiv 2010–11 6220000082
2011–12 182108010282
Anzhi Makhachkala 2013–14 70004100111
2014–15 112100000122
CareerTotal 127402033374018349

Honours

Team

Dynamo Kyiv

Personal

References

  1. Александр Александрович Алиев: Хочу, чтобы Милевский наконец-то женился (Russian)
  2. Алиев: "Повторяю: судья – козел!" Aliyev: I repeat: referee – idiot! (Russian)
  3. "Алиев подпишет контракт с "Локо" после нового года (Aliyev will sign a new contract with "Lokomotiv" in the new year")" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 30 December 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2009.
  4. "Александр Алиев: "Остаюсь в "Динамо" (Aliyev: "I remain with Dynamo")" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 10 January 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  5. "Александр Алиев – игрок "Локомотива" (Oleksandr Aliyev – "Lokomotiv" player)" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 1 February 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
  6. "Alexander Aliev moves to Anji (VIDEO)". http://fc-anji.ru/news/en/. Retrieved 18 July 2014. External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. Анжи расторг контракт с Алиевым. http://www.sports.ru/ (in Russian). sports.ru/. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  8. http://www.championat.ru/football/_ukraine/53/statistic/player/assistent.html

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