Azamat Abduraimov
Personal information
Full name	Azamat Abduraimov
Date of birth	April 27, 1966 (1966-04-27) (age 43)
Place of birth	Toshkent, USSR
Playing position	Forward
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1983–1984 1984–1985 1985 1986 1987–1990 1990 1991 1991–1992 1992–1993 1993 1994–1995 1995 1995 1995–1996 1996–1999 1999–2000 2000 2001	FShM Moscow Spartak Moscow SKA Rostov-na-Donu CSKA Moskva FC Pakhtakor Tashkent Spartak Moscow Pamir Dushanbe Mohammedan Sporting Club Navbahor Namangan MHSK Tashkent Pahang FA Navbahor Namangan Politotdel Tashkent Al-Wahda Mecca FC Pakhtakor Tashkent Salgaocar SC Goa FC Pakhtakor Tashkent Dustlik Tashkent	28 (1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 124 (25) 3 (0) 25 (4) 11 (7) 16 (8) ? (10) 28 (14) 4 (1) 11 (2) 20 (10) 91 (37) 22 (5) ? (13)
National team
1992–1996	Uzbekistan	18 (11)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Azamat Abduraimov (born April 27, 1966 in Toshkent, USSR (now Uzbekistan) is a former Uzbek football player.

[edit] Early years

Azamat Abduraimov was born in Toshkent in 1966. His father, Berador Abduraimov, is one of the best FC Pakhtakor Tashkent players ever. When Azamat was 3 years old, his father moved to Moscow to play for CSKA.

Azamat started his football career in Spartak Moskva youth academy. Being in Soviet Army, he was playing for SKA Rostov-na-Donu and CSKA Moskva.

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Pakhtakor Tashkent

Most of honours were achieved by Azamat while he played for FC Pakhtakor Tashkent. He joined Pakhtakor 3 times and spent more than 7 seasons of his playing career there (scored more than 60 goals).

First time he was playing for FC Pakhtakor Tashkent from 1987 until 1990 in Soviet First League, scored 25 times. He left Pakhtakor in the middle of 1990 season to join Spartak Moskva.

Next time he returned to Pakhtakor in 1996, and spent 3 seasons in the team, scored 37 times and won Uzbek League in 1998 and Uzbekistani Cup in 1997.

Last season Azamat played for Pakhtakor was 2000 when he was already 34.

[edit] Spartak Moskva

During 1990 Azamat was the bench player of Spartak Moskva, gaining only 3 first team appearances. He scored a lot for reserve team during that time, however, he couldn't achieve first team place and left to Pamir Dushanbe.

[edit] Foreign countries

During his career, Azamat Abduraimov played for different teams in 4 non-ex USSR countries. All his foreign contracts were short-term, and he never spent more than one season in any of these teams.

[edit] Uzbekistan national team

Abduraimov achieved 18 caps as Uzbekistan national football team player. Most notable of his international appearances was 1994 Asian Games football tournament in Hiroshima, where Uzbekistan team won the gold medal.^[1]

Also, he played international futsal games as a member of Uzbekistan national futsal team at World 5's Futsal in Kuala Lumpur, and was one of the best futsal team players, according to next year's Japanese futsal report of AFC Futsal Championship.^[2]

[edit] After football

Azamat Abduraimov played his farewell match in 2002.

After leaving a pitch, he spent some time managing Uzbek futsal club Ardus (gained Uzbek futsal championship title in 2004)^[3] Also, he was head coach for Uzbekistan during 2004 AFC Futsal Championship.

In 2007 he graduated from Russia High Coaches School and received coaching license^[4]

During 2008 season he was working for FC Bunyodkor as sports director.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Club

• Mohammedan Sporting Club
  • Dhaka League: 1992, Runner-up

• Navbahor Namangan
  • Uzbekistani Cup: 1992

• Pahang FA
  • Malaysian Super League: 1995

• FC Pakhtakor Tashkent
  • Uzbek League: 1998
  • Uzbekistani Cup: 1997

[edit] Country

• Uzbekistan
  • Asian Games: 1994

[edit] References

1. ^ Time Out Tashkent Formula of success. Azamat Abduraimov from record-breaker of Uzbek football June, 2004
2. ^ Futsal radio web Report: AFC Futsal Championship Quarter final Japan vs China アジア選手権　準々決勝日本vs中国戦レポート April 24th, 2004 (Japanese)
3. ^ Ardus club news September 8, 2008 (Russian) [1]
4. ^ Sportportal.uz Azamat Abduraimov's interview November 27, 2007 (Russian)

[edit] External links

• Abduraimov stats on national-football-teams.com
• Uzbekistan national football team stats (Russian)

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