Aleksandr Samedov

Aleksandr Samedov

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Samedov (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Самедов, born 19 July 1984 in Moscow) is a professional Russian footballer. He currently plays for FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He has played for Russia national football team.

He was a pupil of the Spartak Moscow academy and was considered one of their most talented youngsters and is a splendid dribbler. He was a regular in the first team under Nevio Scala but when Aleksandrs Starkovs came he lost his place in the first team. Spartak Moscow then purchased the speedy Vladimir Bystrov, and in summer of 2005 he left for Lokomotiv Moscow, being sold for €3.4 million. However, Samedov failed to succeed in Loko, and in 2008 joined FC Moscow. Having shown great progress under direction of Miodrag Božović, he chose to become part of a bigger club and went to Dynamo Moscow during the 2009-10 winter transfer period. June 27, 2012, Alexander Samedov moved to Lokomotiv, who played for the earlier period from 2005 to 2008. However, the amount of 9 million €, which supposedly will pay for Lokomotiv player, is not true. In fact, believing the source close to the club, Lokomotiv paid for it about 8.2 million €.

At international level Samedov has played for the Russia U-21s. He was invited to the Russia national football team in late September 2011 for the first time. On 7 October 2011, Samedov made his debut for the senior national team of Russia after coming on as a last-minute substitute for Alan Dzagoev in the 1:0 away win against Slovakia in a Euro 2012 qualifier.