Rinat Dasayev

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Fayzrakhmanovich and the family name is Dasayev.

Rinat Dasayev

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Personal information
Full name	Rinat Fayzrakhmanovich Dasayev
Date of birth	(1957-06-13) June 13, 1957
Place of birth	Astrakhan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Spartak Moscow (reserves GK coach)
Youth career
1975	Volgar Astrakhan
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1976–1977	Volgar Astrakhan	26	(0)
1977–1988	Spartak Moscow	335	(0)
1988–1991	Sevilla	59	(0)
Total		420	(0)
International career
1979–1990	Soviet Union	91	(0)
Managerial career
2003–2005	Russia (assistant)
2007–2008	Torpedo Moscow (assistant)
2012	Torpedo Moscow (Goalkeeper Coach)
2012–	Spartak Moscow (reserves GK coach)
Medal record Representing Soviet Union Men's Football 1980 Moscow Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rinat Fayzrakhmanovich Dasayev (Russian: Ринат Файзрахманович Дасаев, Tatar: Rinat Fäyzeraxman ulı Dasayev; born June 13, 1957) is a Russian former football goalkeeper, who played in three World Cups with the Soviet national team. He is considered the second best Russian goalkeeper ever behind Lev Yashin, and one of the best in the world in the 1980s. He was awarded the title of the World’s Best Goalkeeper of the Year award in 1988 by the IFFHS. In 2004, he was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers.

Dasayev, nicknamed "The Iron Curtain" and "The Cat", was a goalkeeper for the Russian football club Spartak Moscow during most of the 1980s. He won the Soviet championship in 1979 and 1987 and was named Best Soviet Goalkeeper by Ogonyok (Огонëк) magazine in 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988. In 1982 he was named Soviet Footballer of the Year. Dasayev played for the Soviet national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal. He appeared in the 1982, 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cups, as well as the Euro 88 (where the Soviet Union lost the final and Dasayev was powerless to stop Marco van Basten's legendary volley). In total, he was capped 91 times from 1979 to 1990, being the second-most capped player ever for the Soviet Union.

After his contract ran out with the Spanish club Sevilla FC in the early 1990s, Dasayev retired from the sport.

He was appointed as the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final Ambassador.

Honours

Club

• Spartak Moscow
  • Soviet Top League: 1979, 1987, Winner
  • Soviet Top League: 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, Runner-up
  • Soviet Cup: 1981, Runner-up

Country

• Soviet Union
  • UEFA European Football Championship: 1988, Runner-up

Individual

• Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1982
• Soviet Goalkeeper of the Year Award (5)
• IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper: 1988
• Golden Foot Legends Award: 2015

FIFA World Cup 2018 bid

Dasayev (first from left in the back row) celebrates winning the World Cup bid with Andrei Arshavin (center) and others

Dasayev was a member of Russia's winning bid committee to hold 2018 FIFA World Cup.