Today has given the world several famous people who have closely linked their lives with football:
Александр АлиевJoachim Löw (1960) is a former German footballer and football coach. He served as a coach of the German national team, before that he was Jürgen Klinsmann's assistant for two years. As a footballer, played as an attacking midfielder for Freiburg, Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt and Karlsruhe. Played 4 matches in the youth national team of Germany. Finished his career in Switzerland in the early 1990s. World Cup winner and the best coach in the world in 2014.
Oleksandr Aliev (1985) is a former Ukrainian attacking midfielder who played for Dynamo. Possesses a good kick with both feet, which he willingly uses when performing long-range strikes. Had excellent co-operation on the pitch with Artem Milevskiy, who has long been a friend of Aliev.
On 16 March 2018, he became the head coach of the amateur club Khmelnytskyi. On 30 April he played for the team in the role of playing coach. He scored a goal thanks to which his team won.On 13 June 2018, he left the club.
Since the beginning of the full-scale military invasion of Russia in Ukraine in February 2022, Aliev enlisted in the ranks of the territorial defence of Kiev. He is now serving in the Ukrainian armed forces. He harshly criticised former Ukraine national team partners Anatoliy Tymoshchuk and Ivan Ordets for keeping quiet about the war.
