Dmitriy Byakov
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Not to be confused with Dmitri Bykov
Dmitri Bykov
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Dmitriy Nikolayevich Byakov (born 9 April 1978) is a Kazakh
Kazakhs
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 football
Football (soccer)
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 midfielder
Midfielder
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. He plays for FC Zhetysu
FC Zhetysu
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. Byakov also plays for the Kazakhstan national football team
Kazakhstan national football team
The Kazakhstan national football team represents Kazakhstan in international men's association football and is directed by Football Federation of Kazakhstan. They split from the Soviet Union national football team after independence in 1991 and joined the Asian Football Confederation's Central and...

. His first name is also sometimes translated as Dmitry or Dmitri.

Club career

Dmitriy Byakov's club career started in the year 1998 in the club CSKA Kairat Almaty
FC Kairat Almaty
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.

Incident

On 9 April 2003, on his 25th birthday, Dmitriy was stabbed in the heart after a brawl in a night club in Almaty
Almaty
Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...

. After two years of recovery he returned to professional level.

International career

Dmitriy first played for the Kazakhstan national football team
Kazakhstan national football team
The Kazakhstan national football team represents Kazakhstan in international men's association football and is directed by Football Federation of Kazakhstan. They split from the Soviet Union national football team after independence in 1991 and joined the Asian Football Confederation's Central and...

 in 2000. He was Kazakhstan's top scorer in UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying, scoring 5 goals against Azerbaijan, Finland, Belgium, Poland and Portugal, three of which were away goals.

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