Smakov, Samat Kabirovich

Club

He started playing football at the age of 7 with coach Nurzhan Desembaev. In the city’s winter futsal tournament of 1997 he was recognized as the best player and in the spring of 1997 he was declared for the main team of Semipalatinsk - “ Elimai ” ^[3] . In his first season he spent 10 games and scored a goal. And in the next 19-year-old defender scored five goals in 23 matches and helped the team become the country's champion. He was invited to the lost Pavlodar " Irtysh ". Smakov helped Pavlodar to regain the championship title and at the age of 21 he became the two-time champion of Kazakhstan.

The middle peasant of the top division of Russia, the Rostov Rostselmash , signed a three-year contract with him in 2000. For two seasons, Smakov spent 39 games in the Russian championship, but then ceased to fit into the plans of the new coach Anatoly Baydachny and went on loan to the Zhenis Astana. In summer, he broke his leg in training and the 2002 season he practically disappeared, but in June, in the Kazakhstan Cup, he played two games in the 1/8 finals with Atyrau and scored a goal. In November, the team without him won the final against the Pavlodar " Irtysh ".

He spent the 2003 season in his native Elimai , restoring his form.

In the 2004 season, Smakov signed a three-year contract with the Almaty Kairat . He was chosen as the team captain, the club immediately won gold medals, and FFK named Smakov the best football player of the year. The club reached the finals of the Kazakhstan Football Cup twice in a row in 2004 and 2005. In 2005 he took the bronze of the championship, but in 2006 took only 7th place.

In the spring of 2007, Smakov moved to Aktobe . Here began the six-year successful phase of his football career. For three years in a row (2007-2009), Vladimir Mukhanov’s club became the champion of Kazakhstan, and captain Smakov was called the best football player of the FFK country (2007-2008) and the Gol magazine (2007-2009) three times. “Aktobe” won the Cup of Kazakhstan - 2008, the Super Cup of Kazakhstan (2008, 2010), reached the finals of the Champions Cup of the Commonwealth (2009, 2010). In 2010, he won the silver of the championship, and in 2011-2012 - two bronzes. At this time, the head coach of the team Vladimir Mukhanov left for Russia.

In January 2013, Smakov, at the invitation of the Turkish coach Mustafa Denizli, signed a six-month contract with the Turkish First League club Rizespor , although he lost twice in salary.

I always said, and I will say: you won’t earn all the money. I went to Turkey to feel like a football player, to see what football is and the real attitude to it. In addition, I want to learn a little, to take note of something in terms of coaching and organizing infrastructure. In the future I am going to use all this for the good of Kazakhstani football.

- Samat Smakov ^[4]

An experienced coach and two legionnaires from Kazakhstan, Smakov and David Loria, brought the club to the Turkish Super League . Smakov was recognized as the best defender of the First League of Turkey in the 2012/13 season ^[5] .

In the summer of 2013, Smakov returned to Kairat. In October 2014, the leadership of the club Smakov and four other players of the team were suspended from games and training until the end of the season for a failed game with the main competitor - the capital “ Astana ” (1: 5). On October 28, 2014, the footballer broke the contract with the club ^[6] .

Smakov spent the season of 2015 in Pavlodar “ Irtysh ” (the club was consolidated in the first six again), and in February 2016 the 37-year-old football player returned to Aktobe ^[7] . In the 2016 season, after the first round, Smakov left the club ^[8] and ended the season (8 games) with the team's vice-captain in Ordabasy (Shymkent) ^[9] .

In the 2017 season, after the October 15 victory over the pursuer Irtysh (2: 1), the Ordabasy won bronze medals, and Smakov added one more to his 10 medals ^[10] .

In total, in 19 seasons Smakov played 453 matches for 6 clubs in the championship of Kazakhstan and scored 67 goals (including 36 from the penalty spot), also played 60 games for the Kazakhstan Cup (6 goals). I won prizes with each of the 6 clubs. He played 42 matches in Eurocups and scored 8 goals.

On January 4, 2018, it became known that Smakov is completing a gaming career and becoming the general director of the Aktobe club ^[11] .

September 1, 2018 held his farewell match. The team "Friends of Smakov" played against veterans of "Aktobe" ^[12] .

On November 20, after regular tenders of FC Aktobe for 108 million tenge transferred to trust Samat Smakov ^[13] .

Team

In the national team of Kazakhstan, head coach Vait Talgaev made his debut on March 31, 2000 in a game with the national team of Jordan at the XII Asian Cup and received his first yellow card. September 12, 2007, scored his first against Belgium . With the advent of Bernd, Stork ceased to be part of the national team ^[14] . On February 9, 2011, Samat returned to the national team in a match against the national team of Belarus . In 2011, announced the completion of a career in the national team of the country ^[15] .

In September 2014, he resumed his career in the national team, he was again attracted to the team by head coach Yuri Krasnozhan . On June 7, 2016, after a friendly match with the Chinese national team in Dalian, he became the record holder in the number of appearances - 74 games ^[16] . On October 11, 2016, Smakov in Astana last played for the national team in the qualifying tournament match for the 2018 World Cup with the Romanian team ^[17] . Total spent 76 games and scored two goals.

Club

Elimay

• Champion of Kazakhstan: 1998

Irtysh

• Champion of Kazakhstan: 1999

Zhenis

• Kazakhstan Cup Winner: 2002

Kairat

• Champion of Kazakhstan: 2004
• Bronze medalist: 2005
• Finalist of the Kazakhstan Cup (2): 2004, 2005

Aktobe

• Champion of Kazakhstan (3): 2007, 2008, 2009
• Silver medalist: 2010
• Bronze medalist (2): 2011, 2012
• Kazakhstan Cup Winner: 2008
• Winner of the Super Cup of Kazakhstan (2): 2008, 2010
• Finalist of the Commonwealth Champions Cup (2): 2009 , 2010

Rizespor

• Turkey First League Vice-Champion: 2012/13

"Ordabasy"

• Bronze medalist: 2017

Personal

• The best football player of Kazakhstan (4): 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009
• The best defender of the First League of Turkey (1): 2012/13

Samat’s father and grandfather were also footballers. ^[18] The wife of Uma is a former ballerina ^[19] .

Children: Samira (2006) - rhythmic gymnast ^[20] , Alamgir (2009), Daniyar (2014) and Alidar (2018) ^[21] .