Dmitri Aleksandrovich Galiamin (russian: Дмитрий Александрович Галямин; born 8 January 1963) is a Russian

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coach/official and a former player who played as a defender.

Club career

Galiamin was born in

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. He started playing with hometown's

PFC CSKA Moscow Professional Football Club CSKA (russian: link=yes, Профессиональный футбольный клуб – ЦСКА, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English l ...

, 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 club

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, managing to appear sparingly during two

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seasons and being relegated in his second – he became a starter in 1993–94, helping the Catalans 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

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(Spain, second level). In the following decade, already back in his country, he took up coaching, starting with FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg then successively managing

FC Kristall Smolensk FC Kristall Smolensk (russian: «Кристалл» (Смоленск)) was a Russian football team from Smolensk Smolensk ( rus, Смоленск, p=smɐˈlʲensk, a=smolensk_ru.ogg) is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Obla ...

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, FC Tom Tomsk,

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and UOR Master-Saturn Yegoryevsk; in 2002, he served as Saint Petersburg's director of football, occupying that position six years later at

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International career

During four years, Galiamin represented three national teams –

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and

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– earning a total of 19 caps. With the latter, he was picked for the

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, playing in the second half of the 1–3 group stage defeat against

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References

External links

RussiaTeam profile and biography
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Espanyol archives
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