Editorial office of the TASS website
MOSCOW, January 2. /TASS/. Russian champion as part of Spartak Moscow Mukhsin Mukhamadiev made a great contribution to the development of football in both Russia and Tajikistan. This opinion was expressed to TASS by former footballer of Lokomotiv Moscow and the Tajikistan national team Igor Cherevchenko.
Mukhamadiev died on January 1 at the age of 60.
“He was a great football player, and Mukhsin was a wonderful person. He helped young people a lot, made a great contribution to the development of football both in Russia and in Tajikistan, where he will always be remembered,” said Cherevchenko. “It’s very sad that he passed away, we communicated with him and after we stopped being football players, we worked together.”
Mukhamadiev was born on October 21, 1966 in Dushanbe. Since 1985, he played for the local Pamir, and soon after the collapse of the USSR he moved to Russia, where he played for several clubs, including Lokomotiv from Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, the capital’s Spartak and Torpedo, and Yaroslavl’s Shinnik. Also, over the years, the footballer played for the Turkish Ankaragucu and the Vienna Austria.
In 1994, Mukhamadiev became the champion of Russia as part of Spartak. From 2008 to 2012 he was the sports director of Rubin Kazan. During that period, the club became the champion of Russia twice and won the country’s cup and super cup once each. As head coach, Mukhamadiev twice led Istiklol to victory in the Tajikistan championship.
