Samat Kabiruly Smakov (; born 8 December 1978) is a

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manager and a former player who played as a defender. He is the manager of

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Club career

Smakov started his career in his home town

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playing for FC Elimay, and has since played for different teams, including

FC Rostov FC Rostov () is a Russian professionalism in association football, professional football club based in Rostov-on-Don. The club competes in the Russian Premier League, playing their home matches at the Rostov Arena. History Soviet era (1930-199 ...

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. He is a four-time champion of Kazakhstan with four clubs. Having strong leadership qualities, he has captained most of his teams. He held

FC Aktobe Football Club Aktobe (), commonly referred to as FC Aktobe or simply Aktobe, is a professional association football, football club based in Aktobe. They last played in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Football in Kazakhstan, Ka ...

's club record for most Premier League appearances, before being surpassed by Yuri Logvinenko, in August 2013. In October 2014, Smakov, along with

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, Mikhail Bakayev, Zaurbek Pliyev and Aleksandr Kislitsyn, was banned from training with FC Kairat by the club. On 6 January 2015, Smakov, along with Aleksandr Kislitsyn, moved to

FC Irtysh Pavlodar FC Irtysh () is a Kazakh professional football club based at the Central Stadium in Pavlodar. Irtysh won the Kazakhstan Premier league in 1993 (as ''Ansat''), 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2003. The club was also founding members of the top league and ...

. On 4 August 2016, Smakov signed for

FC Ordabasy FC Ordabasy () is a professional association football, football club from Kazakhstan based at the Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium (Shymkent), Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium in Shymkent. Ordabasy was formed in 1949, following the merger of two exi ...

until the end of the

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

season.

International career

Samat received his first

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for Kazakhstan on 31 March 2000 in an Asian Cup qualifier against

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at the age of 18. Since that time Smakov was capped in all major matches of

, including

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and

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qualifiers. As of June 2016 he has played 74 international matches and scored two goals, his first goal a penalty against

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in September 2007. Many times he led the team as a captain. Currently he holds a record as the most capped player of the Kazakhstan national football team with 74 matches as of June 2016.

Post-playing career

On 7 January 2018, Ordabasy announced that Smakov had joined his former club Aktobe as their new General Director.

Career statistics

International

''Statistics accurate as of match played 11 October 2016'' :''Scores and results list Kazakhstan's goal tally first.''

Honours

Yelimay *

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

Irtysh-Bastau *Kazakhstan Premier League:

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Zhenis Astana *

Kazakhstan Cup The Kazakhstan Cup is the main Single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in Kazakhstan Football (soccer), football, run by the Football Federation of Kazakhstan. The tournament was initially founded in 1936 as a competition for club ...

: 2002 Kairat *Kazakhstan Premier League:

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

Aktobe *Kazakhstan Premier League:

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

*Kazakhstan Cup:

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Kazakhstan Super Cup The Kazakhstan Super Cup (, ''Qazaqstan Sýperkýbogy'') is a one-match football (soccer), football annual competition. The two participating clubs are the Kazakhstan Premier League champion and the Kazakhstan Cup winner. If these two competitions ...

: 2008, 2010 Individual *

Kazakhstani Footballer of the Year The title Kazakhstani Footballer of the Year (Қазақстанның ең үздік футболшысы, ''Qazaqstannyñ eñ üzdık futbolşysy'') has been awarded in Kazakhstan since 1992. The award is determined by a poll of Kazakhstani profe ...

: 2004, 2008 * GOAL Journal Player of the Year: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

References

External links

VideoPersonal Blog at National Team Website
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"КАЙРАТ" ОБЪЯВИЛ О ПОДПИСАНИИ СМАКОВА И ЛОРИЯ (Russian)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smakov, Samat 1978 births Sportspeople from Semey Living people Men's association football defenders Kazakhstani men's footballers Kazakhstan men's international footballers FC Elimai players FC Irtysh Pavlodar players FC Rostov players FC Jenis players FC Kairat players FC Aktobe players Çaykur Rizespor footballers FC Ordabasy players Russian Premier League players Kazakhstan Premier League players TFF 1. Lig players Kazakhstani expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Kazakhstani expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Kazakhstani expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Kazakhstani football managers FC Yelimai managers FC Zhetysu managers Kazakhstan Premier League managers