Daler Adyamovich Kuzyayev (russian: Далер Адьямович Кузяев, ; tt-Cyrl, Дәлир Адәм улы Хуҗаев; born 15 January 1993) is a Russian professional

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who plays for the French club

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and Russia national team. He mostly plays as a

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or a

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Club career

He made his debut in the

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for Karelia Petrozavodsk on 23 July 2012 in a game against Spartak Kostroma. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League for FC Terek Grozny on 15 May 2014 in a game against Rubin Kazan. On 14 June 2017, he signed a three-year contract with Zenit Saint Petersburg. On his Zenit debut on 16 July 2017, he scored the first goal of his professional career, opening scoring in a game against SKA-Khabarovsk seven minutes after coming into the game as a half-time substitute. His contract expired at the end of the 2019–20 season and he became a free agent and wanted to play abroad. After missing the

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and the first 10 games of the

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, on 6 October 2020 he returned to Zenit and signed a new three-year contract. On 12 July 2023, at the end of the games for Zenit, Kuzyayev signed a contract with the French Le Havre AC. The agreement is for two years.

International career

Kuzyayev made his debut for Russia national team on 7 October 2017 in a friendly game against

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. On 11 May 2018, he was included in Russia's extended

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squad. On 3 June 2018, he was included in the finalized World Cup squad. He appeared as a second-half substitute in every group stage game, before starting both knock-out stage games - the Round of 16 defeat of

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and the quarterfinal shoot-out loss to

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. He scored his first national team goal on 19 November 2019 in a Euro 2020 qualifier against San Marino. On 11 May 2021, he was included in the preliminary extended 30-man squad for

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. On 2 June 2021, he was included in the final squad. He started Russia's opening game against

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on 12 June 2021, but had to be substituted after colliding head-to-head with

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after 25 minutes of play (Castagne suffered double eye socket fracture in the collision and left the Euro 2020 due to that). He recovered for the second game against

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on 16 June and played a full game in 1–0 victory. He started again on 21 June in the last group game against

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as Russia lost 1–4 and was eliminated, as Kuzyayev was substituted halfway through the second half.

Personal life

Ethnically, Kuzyayev is a

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. His older brother Ruslan is also a footballer, and his father Adyam is a coach and former player. His grandfather Kabir Kuzyayev played in the Soviet First League for

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in the 1960s.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Russia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kuzyayev goal.''

Honours

;Zenit Saint Petersburg * Russian Premier League: 2018–19, 2019–20,

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, 2021–22,

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* Russian Cup: 2019–20 * Russian Super Cup:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuzyayev, Daler 1993 births Sportspeople from Naberezhnye Chelny Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders FC Karelia players FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players FC Akhmat Grozny players FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players Le Havre AC players Russian Premier League players Russian First League players Russian Second League players Ligue 1 players Russia men's international footballers 2018 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 2020 players Russian people of Tajikistani descent Tatar people of Russia Tatar sportspeople Footballers from Tatarstan Russian expatriate footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Russian expatriate sportspeople in France Russian expatriate men's footballers