Dmitri Aleksandrovich Galiamin (russian: Дмитрий Александрович Галямин; born 8 January 1963) is a Russian
football
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coach/official and a former player who played as a
defender.
Club career
Galiamin was born in
Moscow
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. He started playing with hometown's
PFC CSKA Moscow
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, being an automatic first-choice from his second season onwards and helping the team to
the double in his final year, 1991.
Aged 28, Galiamin moved abroad, signing with
Spanish
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club
RCD Español
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, managing to appear sparingly during two
La Liga
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seasons and being relegated in
his second – he became a starter in
1993–94, helping the
Catalans
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immediately return to the top level.
In the 1995 summer, due to constant injuries, Galiamin retired from the game at 32, after
one season with
CP Mérida
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Having played twice in La Liga ( 1995–96 and 1997–98), the club was dissolved in 2000, due to serious economic debts. Its ...
(Spain,
second level). In the following decade, already back in his country, he took up coaching, starting with
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg
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They were a regular i ...
then successively managing
FC Kristall Smolensk
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,
FC Khimki
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History
The team was formed in 1996 by merging two amateur clubs from Khimki, ...
,
FC Tom Tomsk
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History
The team was previously named ''Burevestnik'' ...
,
FC Anzhi Makhachkala
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,
FC Spartak Nizhny Novgorod
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The club was founded as ''Lukoil Chelyabinsk'' in 2000. The futsal club ''Chelyabinets'' became the base for the club. Yury Pervak, the CEO of ''Lukoil Chelyabnefte ...
and UOR Master-Saturn Yegoryevsk; in 2002, he served as Saint Petersburg's
director of football
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, occupying that position six years later at
FC Saturn Moscow Oblast.
International career
During four years, Galiamin represented three national teams –
Soviet Union
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,
CIS
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and
Russia
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– earning a total of 19
caps
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. With the latter, he was picked for the
1994 FIFA World Cup
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, playing in the second half of the 1–3 group stage defeat against
Sweden
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.
References
External links
RussiaTeam profile and biography
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Espanyol archives
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1963 births
Footballers from Moscow
Living people
Soviet men's footballers
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
PFC CSKA Moscow players
RCD Espanyol footballers
CP Mérida footballers
Soviet Top League players
Russian Premier League players
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Soviet Union men's international footballers
Russia men's international footballers
Dual men's international footballers
1994 FIFA World Cup players
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Russian football managers
Palamós CF managers
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg managers
FC Khimki managers
FC Tom Tomsk managers
FC Anzhi Makhachkala managers
FC Leon Saturn Ramenskoye managers
Russian Premier League managers
Russian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Spain
FC Spartak Moscow players