Kamil Mingazow

{{Short description|Turkmenistani footballer}}

{{family name hatnote|Aleksandrowiç |Mingazow|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Kamil Mingazow

| image =

| fullname = Kamil Aleksandrowiç Mingazow

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|06|21}}

| birth_place = Mary,[https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/soccer/kamil-mingazow/247972/] Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union (now Mary, Turkmenistan)

| height = {{convert|1.70|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}

| position = Midfielder

| currentclub = Turkmenistan Womens (head coach)

| clubnumber =

| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 =

| years1 = 1987 | clubs1 = Köpetdag Aşgabat | caps1 = 27 | goals1 = 1

| years2 = 1988–1989 | clubs2 = Bukovyna Chernivtsi | caps2 = 25 | goals2 = 1

| years3 = 1989–1992 | clubs3 = Köpetdag Aşgabat | caps3 = | goals3 =

| years4 = 1993 | clubs4 = Kolhozçy Türkmengala | caps4 = | goals4 =

| years5 = 1994–1998 | clubs5 = Köpetdag Aşgabat | caps5 = | goals5 =

| years6 = 1999 | clubs6 = Zhenis Astana | caps6 = 20 | goals6 = 0

| years7 = 2000 | clubs7 = Köpetdag Aşgabat | caps7 = | goals7 =

| years8 = 2001 | clubs8 = Shakhter Karagandy | caps8 = 16 | goals8 = 0

| years9 = 2002–2006 | clubs9 = Nisa Aşgabat | caps9 = | goals9 =

| nationalyears1 = 1992–2004 | nationalteam1 = Turkmenistan | nationalcaps1 = 46 [https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/6854/Kamil_Mingazow.html] | nationalgoals1 = 3 [https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/6854/Kamil_Mingazow.html]

| pcupdate = 17 December 2015

| ntupdate = 17 December 2015

| manageryears1 = 2016−

| managerclubs1 = Turkmenistan (women)

}}

Kamil Aleksandrowiç Mingazow ({{langx|tt-Cyrl|Камил Александр улы Минһаҗев}}; born 21 June 1968) is a Turkmenistani football coach and former footballer.{{cite web|url=http://tur.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/kamil-mingazov/|title=Kamil Mingazov|author=|date=|work=worldfootball.net|accessdate=23 January 2017}} In Turkmenistan's opening match at the 1994 Asian Games versus China, Turkmenistan had only 11 players to choose from, as the other 9 members of their 20-man squad were delayed in Moscow due to visa problems. Mingazow (usually a midfielder) played as goalkeeper in a 2–2 draw.{{cite web|title=Asian Games 1994 (Hiroshima, Japan)

|website=RSSSF

|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/asgames94.html|accessdate=31 July 2020}}

Mingazow has also been the head coach[https://www.the-afc.com/en/about_afc/technical/womens_football/news/part_3_10th_afc_womens_football_day_2024_marked_by_joyous_celebrations_1.html Part 3: 10th AFC Women’s Football Day 2024 marked by joyous celebrations] of the Turkmenistan women's football team since 2016 and Turkmenistan women's national futsal team.{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/en/news/mingazow-aiming-to-use-nation-s-resilience-to-build-women-s-football-in-turkmeni |title=Iconic Mingazow seeks to build Turkmenistan women's football |publisher=FIFA |date=18 June 2021 }}

Kamil Mingazow represented the Turkmenistan from 1992 to 2004. He was capped 46 times for his country. [https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/6854/Kamil_Mingazow.html]

Club career

In 1987 and 1989–1991, he played for Kopetdag. During the 1988–1989 period, he represented Bukovyna. With the team, he achieved first place in the 6th (Ukrainian) zone of the Soviet Second League.

Between 1992 and 1999, in the independent Turkmenistan Football Championship, he played for Kopetdag and Nisa.{{Cite web |url=http://www.turkmenistan.ru/ru/gallery_27207.html |title=Veteran player Kamil Mingazov |access-date=2022-03-27 |archive-date=2022-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327144656/http://www.turkmenistan.ru/ru/gallery_27207.html |url-status=live }} He is a seven-time champion of Turkmenistan and a six-time Turkmenistan Cup winner.

International career

He also played for the Turkmenistan national football team from 1992 to 2005, participating in multiple qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup and 2004 AFC Asian Cup.[https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/soccer/kamil-mingazow/247972/][https://globalsportsarchive.com/match/soccer/2004-07-22/turkmenistan-vs-iraq/1191368/][https://globalsportsarchive.com/match/soccer/2004-07-18/saudi-arabia-vs-turkmenistan/1191366/]

For the Turkmenistan national team, he played in all positions during his career: forward, midfielder, defender, and even as a goalkeeper. Notably, at the 1994 Asian Games in Japan, he played as a goalkeeper in a match against PR China, which ended in a 2–2 draw.[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/asgames94.html][https://turkmenportal.com/en/blog/56549/kamil-mingazov-preserved-the-post-of-the-head-coach-of-the-womens-football-national-team-of-turkmenistan Kamil Mingazov preserved the post of the head coach of the women’s football national team of Turkmenistan]

Managerial career

He began his coaching career in May 2006 as head coach of FC Nisa.

Together with his former Kopetdag teammate, Tofik Şükürow, he served as the head coach of the Kopetdag women's team.{{Cite web|url=http://www.centralasiaonline.com/cocoon/caii/xhtml/ru/features/caii/features/2009/03/31/feature-06|title=Women of Turkmenistan step onto the football arena|access-date=2010-08-13|archive-date=2018-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612135819/http://www.centralasiaonline.com/cocoon/caii/xhtml/ru/features/caii/features/2009/03/31/feature-06|url-status=live}}

He also worked as an assistant coach for the Ashgabat-based FC Talyp Sporty.

Since 2019, he has simultaneously managed both the women's national football team and the women's national futsal team of Turkmenistan.{{Cite web|url=https://turkmenportal.com/blog/23245|title=Meeting before the start of the CAFA-2019 Women’s Olympic Championship in Dushanbe|access-date=2021-04-04|archive-date=2020-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807153514/https://turkmenportal.com/blog/23245|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://turkmenportal.com/blog/22411|title=Turkmenistan women’s football team to hold training camp in Turkey|access-date=2021-04-04|archive-date=2019-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022104517/https://turkmenportal.com/blog/22411|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://turkmenportal.com/blog/20451|title=Turkmenistan women’s futsal team to hold training camp in Bulgaria|access-date=2021-04-04|archive-date=2020-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927074256/https://turkmenportal.com/blog/20451|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://turkmenportal.com/blog/18247|title=Turkmen futsal team defeated Kuwait in a friendly match|access-date=2021-04-04|archive-date=2019-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404173244/https://turkmenportal.com/blog/18247|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://turkmenportal.com/blog/18199|title=Turkmenistan women’s futsal team to hold training camp in Kuwait|access-date=2021-04-04|archive-date=2019-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330122328/https://turkmenportal.com/blog/18199|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://turkmenportal.com/blog/24462|title=Start time of CAFA-2020 Women’s U-19 Futsal Championship matches in Dushanbe approved|access-date=2021-04-04|archive-date=2020-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930174602/https://turkmenportal.com/blog/24462|url-status=live}}

In 2020, he coached the Ashgabat women’s futsal club.{{Cite web|url=https://turkmenportal.com/blog/26067|title=Four teams at the top of the Turkmenistan Women’s Futsal Championship|access-date=2021-04-04|archive-date=2020-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128085848/https://turkmenportal.com/blog/26067|url-status=live}}

Personal life

Mingazow is an ethnic Tatar.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141006134253/http://tatarstansports.ru/news/27.html] His wife is Ekaterina (born in 1969). They have three children: Albina (born in 1988), Kamila Mingazowa (born in 2005), and son Ruslan Mingazow (born in 1991).

His son Ruslan is a Turkmenistani International footballer who currently plays for Kitchee.

His younger daughter, Kamila Mingazowa, is also a professional footballer[https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/soccer/kamila-mingazowa/547008/ Kamila Mingazowa - Player Info] and futsal player.[https://www.turkmenportal.com/blog/86532/zhenskaya-sbornaya-turkmenistana-pribyla-v-tashkent-na-otborochnyi-turnir-kubka-azii-po-futzalu Женская сборная Туркменистана прибыла в Ташкент на отборочный турнир Кубка Азии по футзалу]

Statistics

Achievements

  • Seven-time Champion of Turkmenistan as a player with Kopetdag (1992–1995, 1998).
  • Six-time winner of the Turkmenistan Cup (1993, 2000, scoring a goal in the final).

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