Today the world was gifted several well-known people who closely connected their lives with football:
Alexander Aliyev. Photo: S. Krylataov, gordonua.comJoachim Löw (1960) — former German football player, football coach. He served as the coach of the national team of Germany, prior to that he was an assistant to Jürgen Klinsmann for two years. As a player, he played as an attacking midfielder for "Freiburg," "Stuttgart," "Eintracht" (Frankfurt), and "Karlsruhe." He played 4 matches for the youth team of West Germany. He ended his playing career in Switzerland in the early 1990s. World Cup winner and best coach in the world in 2014.
Alexander Aliyev (1985) — former Ukrainian attacking midfielder, who played for "Dynamo." He has a strong shot with both feet, which he eagerly uses when taking long-range shots. He had excellent on-field interaction with Artem Milevskiy, who has long been a friend of Aliyev.
On March 16, 2018, he became the head coach of the amateur club "Khmelnytskyi." On April 30, he played for the team as a player-coach. He made a decisive assist that led to his team winning. On June 13, 2018, he left the club.
Since the beginning of the full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine in February 2022, Aliyev enlisted in the territorial defense of Kyiv. He currently serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He has faced sharp criticism from former Ukrainian national team partners Anatoliy Tymoshchuk and Ivan Ordeць, who remain silent about the war.
