Rinat Abdulin

Rinat Abdulin

Personal information
Full name	Rinat Abdulin
Date of birth	(1982-04-14) 14 April 1982
Place of birth	Soviet Union
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Ordabasy
Number	23
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2008	Kairat Almaty	144	(6)
2009–2010	Lokomotiv Astana	16	(1)
2010	Tobol	10	(0)
2011	Vostok	26	(1)
2012	Kaisar	25	(0)
2013	Ordabasy	7	(0)
2013-2014	Atyrau	48	(2)
2015-	Ordabasy	17	(0)
International career‡
2002–	Kazakhstan	25	(2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 November 2015 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 November 2014

Rinat Abdulin (Russian: Ренат Абдулин; born 14 April 1982) is a Kazakh footballer who plays for FC Ordabasy.

Career

Abdulin haw previously played for Kairat Almaty.

International career

He scored his first goal for Kazakhstan on 1 April 2009 in a 5–1 defeat to Belarus in a World Cup qualifying match. In his next appearance, he fouled England striker Emile Heskey to concede a penalty in a 4-0 defeat.

Even so, he created a shock in UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying by scoring the goal to take the lead over the World Cup's eventual third place team Netherlands in the Amsterdam ArenA. Kazakhstan eventually lost 1-3, but it marked for the first time ever a Central Asian side had taken the lead over the world's strongest teams.

International goals

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1.	1 April 2009	Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan	Belarus	1–0	1–5	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
2.	10 October 2014	Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Netherlands	0–1	3–1	UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying

External links

• weltfussball.at profile (German)
• Rinat Abdulin at National-Football-Teams.com