Oleksandr Aliyev

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Aliyev (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Алієв, Russian: Александр Александрович Алиев, Azerbaijani: Aleksandr Əliyev); (born 3 February 1985) is a Ukrainian footballer of Azerbaijani origin.[1] He plays as a right midfielder or central midfielder. Known for his spectacular goals from direct free-kicks, his former FC Dynamo Kyiv coach Yuri Syomin described him as "...the best free-kick taker in Europe". He also was known for being the youngest Dynamo player who debuted in 2002 at professional level when Aliyev was 17 years and 6 months old.[2]

In this Eastern Slavic name, 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)
Position(s) Right midfielder
Central midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Meliorator Bucha
Youth career
SKA Khabarovsk
1998–1999 Spartak Moscow
1999–2001 Dynamo Kyiv
2000–2001 FC Obukhiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2002 Borysfen Boryspil-2 10 (4)
2002–2010 Dynamo Kyiv 51 (17)
2002–2008 → Dynamo-2 Kyiv 99 (53)
2005–2006 → Metalurh Zaporizhya (loan) 8 (1)
2010–2011 Lokomotiv Moscow 25 (14)
2011–2013 Dynamo Kyiv 35 (7)
2012–2013 → Dnipro (loan) 12 (2)
2014–2015 Anzhi Makhachkala 22 (3)
2015 Rukh Vynnyky 15 (8)
2016 Katanzaro Kyiv (amateurs) ? (?)
2016 Taraz 9 (1)
2017 Katanzaro Kyiv (amateurs) ? (?)
2018– Meliorator Bucha (amateurs) ? (?)
National team
2001–2002 Ukraine U17 8 (5)
2003–2006 Ukraine U21 30 (8)
2008–2012 Ukraine 28 (6)
Teams managed
2018 FC Khmelnytskyi (amateurs)
2018– Meliorator Bucha (amateurs)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Born in Khabarovsk, Aliyev began playing football as a child with FC Zaria Khabarovsk before entering the Dynamo Kyiv youth system.[3]

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 2008–09 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 2008–09 UEFA Champions League. 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.[4] Dynamo Kyiv finished third in their Champions League group, moving down to the 2008–09 UEFA Cup 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 2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League that season. 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.[5] These negotiations failed and Aliyev remained a Dynamo player[6] until 1 February 2010, when Lokomotiv officially announced the signing of Aliyev to a three-year contract.[7]

Anzhi Makhachkala

In January 2014 Aliyev moved from Dynamo Kyiv to Anzhi Makhachkala on a 2.5-year contract.[8] Aliyev left Anzhi at the end of the 2013–14 season by mutual consent. Shortly thereafter, he re-signed with Anzhi, before having his contract terminated by mutual consent once again in January 2015.[9]

Rukh Vynnyky / amateurs

In 2015 Aliyev returned to Ukraine playing for FC Rukh Vynnyky along with his former teammate Maksim Shatskikh at the 2015 Ukrainian Football Amateur League.

In 2016 and 2017 he was taking part at the Kiev city championship for local amateur club.

Taraz

In June 2016, after eighteen-months without a professional club, Aliyev signed for FC Taraz of the Kazakhstan Premier League until the end of the 2016 season.[10] Aliyev left Taraz prior to the expiration of his contract on 6 October 2016.[11]

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.

Coaching career

In March 2018 Aliyev became a manager of Ukrainian amateur club FC Khmelnytskyi which earlier in 2017 started out at the 2017–18 Ukrainian Football Amateur League.[12]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 15 July 2015[13][14] included only games played at professional level and might not correspond to the actual record of Football Federation of Ukraine
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Borysfen Boryspil-2 2001–02 Ukrainian Second League 10400––104
Dynamo Kyiv 2002–03 Vyshcha Liha 2020000040
2003–04 2010000030
2004–05 0000000000
2005–06 51311010102
2006–07 3020100060
2007–08 103310010144
2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League 261310164104417
2009–10 3010101060
Total 5117132194408723
Metalurh Zaporizhya (loan) 2005–06 Vyshcha Liha 8131––112
Lokomotiv Moscow 2010 Russian Premier League 25140021–2715
Dynamo Kyiv 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League 6220000082
2011–12 265109010375
2012–13 3000000030
Total 357309010487
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (loan) 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League 1221052–184
Anzhi Makhachkala 2013–14 Russian Premier League 700041–111
2014–15 15310––163
Total 2231041--274
Taraz 2016 Kazakhstan Premier League 9100–0091
Career total 172492133985023760

International
Ukraine national team
YearAppsGoals
200840
200950
201085
201171
201240
Total286

Statistics accurate as of match played 15 June 2012[13]

International goals
As of match played 11 October 2011[13]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.25 May 2010Kharkiv, Ukraine Lithuania1–04–0Friendly
2.2–0
3.29 May 2010Lviv, Ukraine Romania1–03–2Friendly
4.11 August 2010Donetsk, Ukraine Netherlands1–11–1Friendly
5.7 September 2010Kiev, Ukraine Chile2–02–1Friendly
6.11 October 2011Tallinn, Estonia Estonia2–02–0Friendly

Honours

Club
Dynamo Kyiv

Individual

References
  1. Александр Александрович Алиев: Хочу, чтобы Милевский наконец-то женился (in Russian)
  2. Oleksandr Aliyev (Александр Алиев). Dynamomania. 2013
  3. "Алиев - хлопец с амбициями" (in Russian). Tikhookeanskaya Gazeta. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  4. Алиев: "Повторяю: судья – козел!" Aliyev: I repeat: referee – idiot! (in Russian)
  5. "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.
  6. "Александр Алиев: "Остаюсь в "Динамо" (Aliyev: "I remain with Dynamo")" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 10 January 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  7. "Александр Алиев – игрок "Локомотива" (Oleksandr Aliyev – "Lokomotiv" player)" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 1 February 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
  8. "Alexander Aliev moves to Anji (VIDEO)". fc-anji.ru/news/en/. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  9. Анжи расторг контракт с Алиевым. sports.ru (in Russian). sports.ru. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  10. "РЕСЕЙЛІК ҚОРҒАУШЫ АНТОН ГРИГОРЬЕВ ТАРАЗДЫҢ НАМЫСЫН ҚОРҒАЙДЫ". fctaraz.kz (in Kazakh). FC Taraz. 11 June 2016. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  11. "АЛЕКСАНДР АЛИЕВ "ТАРАЗ" КОМАНДАСЫНАН КЕТТІ". fctaraz.kz (in Kazakh). FC Taraz. 6 October 2016. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  12. Oleksandr Aliyev was placed in charge of FC Khmelnytskyi (Александр Алиев возглавил ФК Хмельницкий). UA-Football. 17 March 2018
  13. "Oleksandr Aliyev". National-Football-Teams.com. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  14. "O.Aliyev". soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  15. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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