Dmitri Aleksandrovich Galiamin (; born 8 January 1963) is a Russian

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coach/official and a former player who played as a defender.

Club career

Galiamin was born in

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. He started playing with hometown's

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, being an automatic first-choice from his second season onwards and helping the team to the double in his final year, 1991. Aged 28, Galiamin moved abroad, signing with

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club

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, managing to appear sparingly during two

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seasons and being relegated in his second – he became a starter in 1993–94, helping the

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immediately return to the top level. In the 1995 summer, due to constant injuries, Galiamin retired from the game at 32, after one season with Mérida (Spain, second level). In the following decade, already back in his country, he took up coaching, starting with Dynamo St. Petersburg then successively managing Kristall Smolensk,

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, Spartak Nizhny Novgorod and UOR Master-Saturn Yegoryevsk; in 2002, he served as Saint Petersburg's

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, occupying that position six years later at FC Saturn Moscow Oblast.

International career

During four years, Galiamin represented three national teams –

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, CIS and

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– earning a total of 19

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. With the latter, he was picked for the

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, playing in the second half of the 1–3 group stage defeat against

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References

External links

RussiaTeam profile and biography
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Espanyol archives
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