Role Coach Playing position Height 1.8 m | –1981 SKA-Pamir Dushanbe Position Defender, Midfielder Name Rashid Rakhimov Manages FC Terek Grozny | |
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Full name Rashid Mamatkulovich Rakhimov Date of birth (1965-03-18) 18 March 1965 (age 50) Current team FC Terek Grozny (manager) Team coached FC Terek Grozny (Manager, since 2013) Similar People Igor Lebedenko, Gadzhi Gadzhiyev, Stanislav Cherchesov, Dmitri Alenichev, Andrei Sergeyevich Semyonov | ||
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Rashid Mamatkulovich Rakhimov (Russian: Рашид Маматкулович Рахи́мов; born 18 March 1965 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is Tajikistani football coach and former footballer.
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Much of Rakhimov's playing career is related to Pamir Dushanbe, where he was playing from 1980 to 1991, the last three seasons in Soviet Top League. After that he moved on to playing in such clubs as Spartak Moscow, Real Valladolid, Lokomotiv Moscow. In the later part of his career as a footballer he moved to Austria, playing for FK Austria Wien, Admira Wacker and SV Ried, where he was very popular with fans.
International
Rakhimov played 4 matches for Russian national football team during 1994–1995. Rakhimov played for the football team of his country of birth Tajikistan national football team in 1992 and 1996.
Management career
After he finished playing, he was invited to struggling Admira Wacker as a manager in 2002. He saved the club from relegation, but quit in 2004.
In 2006, he was invited to FC Amkar Perm, which was also facing relegation. After an impressive run of performances, Amkar stayed in Premier League, and Rakhimov signed a 2-year contract with the club in the beginning of 2007 season.
On 6 December 2007, he signed a 3-year contract with Lokomotiv Moscow and was fired on 28 April 2009. After nineteen months, he returned to Amkar Perm.
On 28 September 2011 Amkar Perm President Gennady Shilov confirmed that the club had accepted Rakhimov's resignation.