Dmitriy Nikolayevich Byakov (russian: Дмитрий Бяков; born 9 April 1978) is a
Kazakh
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football
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midfielder. He plays for
FC Zhetysu. Byakov also plays for the
Kazakhstan national football team. His first name is also sometimes translated as Dmitry or Dmitri.
Club career
Dmitriy Byakov's club career started in the year 1998 in the club
CSKA Kairat Almaty.
Incident
On 9 April 2003, on his 25th birthday, Dmitriy was stabbed in the heart after a brawl in a night club in
Almaty
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. After two years of recovery he returned to professional level.
International career
Dmitriy first played for the
Kazakhstan national football team in 2000. He was Kazakhstan's top scorer in
UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying, scoring 5 goals against Azerbaijan, Finland, Belgium, Poland and Portugal, three of which were away goals.
Byakov's phenomenon
Sport.gazeta.kz 14 March 2008
Career statistics
International goals
Notes
External links
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at UEFA
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1978 births
Living people
Kazakhstani men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Kazakhstan men's international footballers
Kazakhstani people of Russian descent
Kazakhstan Premier League players
Stabbing survivors
FC Zhenis players
FC Kairat players
FC Shakhter Karagandy players
FC Anzhi Makhachkala players
FC Zhetysu players
Place of birth missing (living people)
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia