Yevgeny Ivanovich Lyadin (russian: Евгений Иванович Лядин) (April 9, 1926 – April 3, 2011) was a Russian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

manager and former player. Lyadin was the first foreign professional

manager to coach a club in the Iranian Football League (

Azadegan League The Azadegan League ( fa, ليگ آزادگان, ''Lig-e Âzâdegân''), also known as League 1 ( fa, لیگ یک, ''Lig-e Yek''), is the second highest division of professional football in Iran. It was the top-level football league in Iran from ...

) after the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

. In 1994 while coaching

F.C. Zob Ahan Zob Ahan Esfahan Football Club ( fa, باشگاه فرهنگى ورزشى ذوب‌آهن اصفهان, ''Bâšgâhé Futbâlé Zobâhané Esfahân'') is an Iranian football club based in Fuladshahr, Iran. It competes in the Persian Gulf Pro L ...

a club based in

Isfahan Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...

, Iran, he invited his fellow countryman Sergey Ponomarev to come and play for his team. Lyadin was the coach of Soviet youth national teams in 1965–1972 and 1979–1982. His teams won the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship in 1966 and 1967.

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1926 births 2011 deaths Soviet football managers Russian football managers Expatriate football managers in Iran Soviet men's footballers FC Lokomotiv Moscow players Zob Ahan Esfahan F.C. managers Russian expatriate football managers Men's association football midfielders {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1920s-stub