Maksym Vahifovych Pashayev (; 4 January 1988 – 12 December 2008) was a

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Ukrainian

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defender of Azerbaijani origin who played for

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro (, ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club played its last season in the 2018–19 Ukrainian Amateur League. The club was owned by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi. In 2018, FC Dnipro was forced i ...

in the

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. He died in a car accident in

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Career

He was born in

Krasnyi Luch Khrustalnyi or Krasnyi Luch is a city in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Its population is approximately It has historically been one of the most important coal mining locations in the Donbas region. The city was founded in the 1880s after t ...

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. He was the product of the Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Youth school system. With new Dnipro head coach

Volodymyr Bezsonov Volodymyr Vasylyovych Bezsonov (, also spelled Vladimir Vasilijević Bessonov from , born 5 March 1958) is a Ukrainian football manager and former player who played for the former Soviet Union national football team. The most recent team he wa ...

, Pashaiv established himself in the starting lineup of the main team. When he died in a car accident, he was the captain of the

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captain. His twin brother

Pavlo Pashayev Pavel Vaqif oglu Pashayev (, ; born 4 January 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back. Born in Ukraine, he originally represented Ukraine internationally before switching to represent the Azerbaijan national team. Career P ...

is also a football player and plays for

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References

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1988 births 2008 deaths People from Krasnyi Luch Footballers from Luhansk Oblast Road incident deaths in Ukraine Ukrainian men's footballers Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers FC Dnipro players FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian people of Azerbaijani descent Ukrainian twins Men's association football defenders 21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-defender-1980s-stub