Arsen Georgievich Avakov (born 28 May 1971) is a former

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

i player. He is of

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descent. Arsen won the top scorer award in the

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League'') ...

in 1995 while playing for FC Torpedo Zaporizhia, the first foreign player in history of the

to do so. Avakov began his playing career with

FC Pamir Dushanbe CSKA Pamir Dushanbe ( tg, Клуби футболи ЦСКА-Помир Душанбе, Klubi Futboli CSKA Pomir Dushanbe; fa, زسکا پامیر دوشنبه) is a professional football club based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan that currently plays i ...

in the

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, before moving to clubs in Ukraine. He finished his career with

FC Torpedo Moscow Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pr ...

FC Shinnik Yaroslavl FC Shinnik Yaroslavl (russian: Футбольный клуб «Шинник» Ярославль) is a Russian football club, based in Yaroslavl. From 1957 to 1960 the team was called Khimik (russian: Химик - "the chemist"). In the USSR ...

FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod was a Russian football club based in Nizhny Novgorod. They spent eight seasons in the Russian Premier League. History Early years The team of the railway workers was founded in Nizhny Novgorod in 1916. Later it was k ...

and

FC Uralan Elista FC Uralan Elista (russian: ФК Уралан Элиста) is a football club based in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia. History FC Elista was founded in 2005 following the dissolution of its predecessor, FC Uralan Elista. The club entered ''South'' zone ...

in the

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 ...

International career stats

Goals for senior national team

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* 1971 births Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in Ukraine FC Elista players FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod players CSKA Pamir Dushanbe players FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players FC Temp Shepetivka players FC Torpedo Moscow players FC Torpedo-2 players FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia players Living people Sportspeople from Dushanbe Russian Premier League players Soviet footballers Soviet Armenians Soviet Top League players Tajikistan international footballers Tajikistani people of Armenian descent Tajikistani expatriate footballers Tajikistani footballers Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League top scorers Tajikistani expatriate sportspeople in Russia Tajikistani expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Association football forwards Ethnic Armenian sportspeople {{Tajikistan-footy-bio-stub