Gennadi Anatolyevich Denisov (; born 20 August 1960) is an Uzbekistani professional

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coach and a former player. His son

Vitaliy Denisov Vitaliy Gennadyevich Denisov (; born 23 February 1987) is an Uzbekistani professional association football, footballer who plays as a left-back for FC Bukhara, Bukhara. He is a former member of the Uzbekistan national football team, Uzbekistan ...

is also a professional footballer.

Club career

Denisov started his playing career at ''Pakhtachi Guliston'' from

Guliston Guliston ( — flower country) also spelled as Gulistan, formerly known as ''Mirzachül'' (, until 1961) and Qayroqqum (; from 1962 - 2015), is the capital of Sirdaryo Region in eastern Uzbekistan. It is a district-level city. History In the ...

in 1977. After one year playing for ''Pakhtachi'' he joined Pakhtakor. The most of his career he played for ''Pakhtakor''. He made his professional debut in the

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in 1979 for Pakhtakor. He was one of the player of Pakhtakor among Andrey Pyatnitskiy,

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and others who led club to promotion to

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, after finishing runners-up in

1990 Soviet First League 1990 Soviet First League was part of the Soviet football competition in the second league division. After the fall of the Soviet Union some clubs left the Soviet competitions and the league was reduced. Teams Promoted teams * Dinamo Sukhumi – W ...

. Denisov is all-time most capped player of Pakhtakor with 371 caps ahed of

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. Totally he capped 508 matches in all championships in his career. In 1992, he moved to Spartak Vladikavkaz where he completed three seasons. Denisov played two games in the

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for Spartak Vladikavkaz. From 1995 to 1997 he played at

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and won championship in 1996.

International career

Denisov completed five matches for the Uzbekistan national team between 1992 and 1996. In

1996 AFC Asian Cup The 1996 AFC Asian Cup was the 11th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in the United Arab Emirates between 4 and 21 Decembe ...

he played in all three matches of Uzbekistan in group stage.

Managerial career

Denisov started his coaching career in 1998 at ''Sergeli Tashkent''. In 2001, he worked as assistant coach at ''Kimyogar Chirchiq''. From 2010 to 2016 he was an assistant coach to

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Honours

Pakhtakor *

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runner-up:

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Spartak Vladikavkaz *

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runner-up: 1992 Navbahor Namangan *

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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: 1995

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Denisov, Gennadi 1960 births People from Sirdaryo Region Living people Soviet men's footballers Uzbekistani men's footballers Uzbekistan men's international footballers 1996 AFC Asian Cup players Pakhtakor Tashkent FK players PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players PFC Navbahor Namangan players Soviet First League players Russian Premier League players Uzbekistani expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Russia Men's association football defenders