Arsen Avakov (footballer)

Arsen Avakov
Personal information
Full name Arsen Georgievich Avakov
Date of birth (1971-05-28) 28 May 1971 (age 52)
Place of birth Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1992 Pomir Dushanbe 7 (0)
1992–1994 Temp Shepetivka 48 (7)
1994–1996 Torpedo Zaporizhzhia 48 (25)
1996–2000 Torpedo Moscow 72 (13)
1996Torpedo-Luzhniki-d 5 (8)
1997Shinnik Yaroslavl (loan) 17 (4)
1999Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod (loan) 28 (13)
2001–2002 Uralan Elista 53 (16)
Total 278 (84)
International career
1992–1999 Tajikistan[1] 10 (5)
Managerial career
2014–2018 TSK Simferopol (team director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Arsen Georgievich Avakov (born 28 May 1971) is a former Tajikistani football player. He is of Armenian descent. Arsen won the top scorer award in the Ukrainian Premier League in 1995 while playing for FC Torpedo Zaporizhia, the first foreign player in history of the Ukrainian Premier League to do so.

Avakov began his playing career with FC Pamir Dushanbe in the Soviet Top League, before moving to clubs in Ukraine. He finished his career with FC Torpedo Moscow, FC Shinnik Yaroslavl, FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod and FC Uralan Elista in the Russian Premier League.[2]

  1. ^ Arsen Avakov at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. ^ Arsen Avakov at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian) Edit this at Wikidata

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