Shahin Khadakerim oglu Diniyev ( az, Şahin Xudakərim oğlu Diniyev, russian: Шахин Диниев; born 12 July 1966),Azerifootball.com - News Archive "Shakhin Diniyev will be the new coach of Azerbaijan national team" 7 December 2005 (retrieved 17 September 2006)
is an

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football manager.

Life and career

Diniyev played football as a midfielder. His club career included spells in the USSR, and later Russia, and finally back to Azerbaijan, where he ended his career with Dynamo Baku.UEFA.com - Shakhin Diniyev 08/01/2006 (retrieved 17 September 2006)
/ref> He competed 16 times for the Azerbaijani national team, gaining no international caps with the USSR before independence. Following a period as a youth coach, Diniyev moved into club management, first with FK Qarabağ and then

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. Diniyev's sons are also professional footballers with Karim currently playing for Zira, and Joshgun for Sabah.

Azerbaijan national team career

In November 2005, he impressed the AFFA sufficiently to be awarded with the national team job, promising to restructure the squad with an emphasis on youth and to help turn Azerbaijan into a credible force within UEFA competition. Replacing

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, Diniyev's first game in charge was a friendly against Ukraine in

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FIFA - Azerbaijan - Result Details (retrieved 17 September 2006)
/ref> at the Tofig Bakhramov Stadium; the result was 0-0, a minor success against stronger opposition. In further friendlies, a shock 1–1 draw against Turkey and another 0–0 draw against Moldova followed. Diniyev was soon to witness his first defeat as Azerbaijan coach: in August 2006 he watched his team succumb to a 6–0 defeat against Ukraine, this time in Kyiv. This game was the final friendly match before qualification for the

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began. (See Azerbaijan national football team.) Under Diniyev, the Azerbaijan squad has given debuts to not only young players but also some naturalised foreigners, such as

Leandro Gomes Leandro Melino Gomes ( az, Leandro Melino Qomeş; born 24 August 1976 in Casimiro de Abreu known as Leandro Gomes, is a Brazilian-born former Azerbajiani football striker, who is currently the assistant manager of Sampaio Corrêa-RJ. Internati ...

of FC Baku,Azerifootball.com - News Archive "Leandro Gomes to play for Azerbaijan" 4 September 2006 (retrieved 17 September 2006)
who was born in Brazil.FK Baku
- Official Website - Squad (retrieved 17 September 2006)

Career statistics

International

''Statistics accurate as of 20 October 2015''

Managerial

Notes and references

External links

Azerbaycan Futbol Federasiyaları Assosiasiyası
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