Rizvan Sarutdinoviç Umarov (born 5 April 1993) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for Dynamo Saint Petersburg. Born in Russia, he represented Azerbaijan at international level.

Club career

Born in

Stavropol Stavropol (, ), known as Voroshilovsk from 1935 until 1943, is a city and the administrative centre of Stavropol Krai, in southern Russia. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 547,820, making it one of Russia's fastest growing cities. E ...

, Russia, Umarov has played club football in Russia and Spain for SDYuSShOR Zenit, Castellón,

Elche Ilicitano Elche Ilicitano Club de Fútbol, known officially as Elche Ilicitano is a Spanish football team based in Elche, in the autonomous community of Valencia. Founded in 1932 as Club Deportivo Ilicitano, a farm team, it is the reserve team of Elche CF, ...

Anzhi Football Club Anzhi Makhachkala (, ), known simply as FC Anji, was a Russian professional football club based in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala. Founded in 1991, the club last competed in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2 ...

and Dynamo Saint Petersburg. On 30 June 2014, Umarov signed with

Russian Football National League The Russian First League (, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division () and Russian Football National League (FNL) () is the second level of the Russian football league system. The Russian Professional Football League (PFL) used t ...

club Dynamo Saint Petersburg. On 18 February 2016, Umarov signed with

Meistriliiga Meistriliiga (), officially known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons, and commonly known as the Premium Liiga, is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football championship. The league was founded i ...

club

JK Narva Trans Jalgpalliklubi Narva Trans, commonly known as Narva Trans or simply Trans, is an Estonian professional Association football, football club based in Narva that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football league system, Eston ...

International career

He made his international debut for

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

in 2012.

Personal life

He also holds

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n citizenship.

References

1993 births Living people Russian men's footballers Azerbaijani men's footballers Azerbaijan men's international footballers FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players CD Castellón footballers Elche CF Ilicitano footballers FC Anzhi Makhachkala players FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players FC SKA-Khabarovsk players JK Narva Trans players FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players FC Leningradets Leningrad Oblast players FC Rotor Volgograd players Meistriliiga players Russian First League players Russian Second League players Men's association football forwards Azerbaijani expatriate men's footballers Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Estonia Expatriate men's footballers in Estonia Russian expatriate sportspeople in Estonia Russian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Russian expatriate men's footballers Footballers from Stavropol 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Azerbaijan-footy-bio-stub