Role Footballer Name Alim Ashirov | Years Team | |
Full name Alimzhan Masalievich Ashirov Date of birth (1955-01-25)25 January 1955 Date of death 11 August 1979(1979-08-11) (aged 24) Died August 11, 1979, Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine | ||
Place of birth Tashkent, Uzbek SSR Place of death Dniprodzerzhynsk, USSR | ||
Alim Masalievich Ashirov (Russian: Алим Масалиевич Аширов, Uzbek: Олимжон Масалиевич Аширов tr. Olimjon Masalievich Amirov; 25 January 1955 in Tashkent – 11 August 1979 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine SSR) was a Soviet footballer. Ashirov played for Pakhtakor Tashkent as a defender from 1972 to 1979, before he died in a mid-air plane crash in August 1979. He was classified as a Master of Sport of the USSR in 1979.
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