Boyukagha Talat oghlu Hajiyev (; (20 April 1958 – 16 March 2018) was an Azerbaijani professional

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Early life and career

Hajiyev began playing football at Araz-Naxçıvan, which participated in

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Managerial career

In 1999, he was appointed as a head coach of Araz-Naxçıvan but club was dissolved a year later due to the financial difficulties, and Hajiyev went to

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and for couple of years worked at Machine Sazi, firstly as head coach assistant position, and after

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resign as a head coach. He has also managed another

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for a one-season In 2005, he worked in

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, assisting

. In 2006, he returned to

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and worked as president consultant at

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, however at the end of the 2005-06 season

head coach Asgar Abdullayev was sacked, and Hajiyev accepted the team as a caretaker. He won all last 8 games consecutively, bringing the team the first championship title ever. For a next season the manager signed a one-year contract with

. But this time ''capitals'' finished the season in 3rd position, failing two European companies after first rounds. On this, Hajiyev era at

ended. After two years of downtime, Hajiyev appointed as a new head coach of

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replacing

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. That became the managers worst experience and

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side relegated to

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, whereupon Hajiyev was sacked.

Neftchi Baku

In 2011,

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president Sadyg Sadygov unexpectedly invited him to his club, 2011-12 season defending champions. Hajiyev repeated the success, and brought

second consecutive championship. In 2012, he became the first

i manager to reach European cups group stage, as Neftchi qualified for the 2012-13 UEFA Europa League group stage, beating

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and being the first

i team to advance to this stage in a European competitions. Following Neftchi's elimination from the Champions League during the 2013–14, Hajiyev from his position as manager on 25 July 2013, Hajiyev was reappointed as Neftchi's manager on 11 January 2014. In 2014, in a press conference upon

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, Hajiyev said, "I'm an encyclopedia. I will open the chest, pour the cotton", which resulted in the media dubbing him "The Encyclopedia".

Death

In February 2018 Hajiyev suffered a heart attack which left him hospitalised, before dying a month later.

Honours

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: 2012

References

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