Oleksandr Aliyev

Oleksandr Aliyev

Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Aliyev
Date of birth	3 February 1985 (1985-02-03) (age 26)
Place of birth	Khabarovsk, Soviet Union
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Dynamo Kyiv
Number	8
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)
2002–2008	→ Dynamo-2 Kyiv	99	(53)
2005–2006	→ Zaporizhya (loan)	8	(1)
2010	Lokomotiv Moscow	25	(14)
2011–	Dynamo Kyiv	6	(2)
National team‡
2001–2002	Ukraine U17	8	(5)
2003–2006	Ukraine U21	30	(8)
2008–	Ukraine	22	(6)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 May 2011. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 May 2011

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Aliyev (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Алієв), born 3 February 1985 in Khabarovsk, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian football midfielder, who plays for FC Dynamo Kyiv.^[1] Known for his spectacular free-kick goals. "He is the best free-kick taker in Europe", said Yuri Syomin, FC Dynamo Kyiv coach.

Club career

Dynamo Kyiv

Aliev 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 Aliev 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 Aliev 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 Aliev began negotiations with Lokomotiv Moscow in the Russian Premier League.^[3] These negotiations failed and Aliev remained a Dynamo player^[4] until 1 February 2010, when Lokomotiv officially announced the signing of Aliev to a three year contract.^[5]

International career

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 50 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 29 May 2010

#	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

Career statistics

As of 26 August 2010

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Super Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Borysfen Boryspil-2	2001–02	10	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	4
Dynamo Kyiv	2002–03	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
	2003–04	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
	2004–05	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2005–06	5	1	3	1	1	0	1	0	10	2
Metalurh Z	2005–06	8	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	11	2
Dynamo Kyiv	2006–07	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
	2007–08	10	3	3	1	0	0	1	0	14	4
	2008–09	26	13	1	0	16	4	1	0	44	17
	2009–10	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	6	0
Lokomotiv M	2010	25	14	0	0	2	1	0	0	27	15
Career	Total	85	34	16	3	21	5	4	0	125	42

Honours

Team

Dynamo Kyiv

• Ukrainian Premier League: 2006–07, 2008–09
• Ukrainian Cup: 2006–07

Ukraine under-21

• Top goalscorer: 8 goals

Personal

• Top assister of the Ukraine Premier League: 2008/2009^[6]

References

1. ^ "Алиев возвращается в "Динамо"!". FC Dynamo Kyiv. http://fcdynamo.kiev.ua/ru/dynamo/news/31464.html. Retrieved 2011-03-02. 
2. ^ [1] Алиев: "Повторяю: судья – козел!" Aliyev: I repeat: referee – idiot! (Russian)
3. ^ (Russian) "Алиев подпишет контракт с "Локо" после нового года (Aliev will sign a new contract with "Lokomotiv" in the new year")". ua-football.com. 30 December 2009. http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/news/4b3b1deb.html. Retrieved 30 December 2009. 
4. ^ (Russian) "Александр Алиев: "Остаюсь в "Динамо" (Aliev: "I remain with Dynamo")". ua-football.com. 10 January 2010. http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/4b479532.html. Retrieved 10 January 2010. 
5. ^ (Russian) "Александр Алиев – игрок "Локомотива" (Oleksandr Aliev – "Lokomotiv" player)". ua-football.com. 1 February 2010. http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/4b66e3e9.html. Retrieved 1 February 2010. 
6. ^ http://www.championat.ru/football/_ukraine/53/statistic/player/assistent.html

External links

• Profile on Official Dynamo Kyiv website
• Stats about Dynamo Kyiv players on Ukrainiansoccer.net
• Блог футбола
• Oleksandr Aliyev career stats by KLISF

Persondata
Name	Aliyev, Oleksander
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	3 February 1985
Place of birth	Khabarovsk, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Date of death
Place of death