Dmitri Galiamin
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) is a retired Russia
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n football defender
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, and a current manager
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.

Club career

Galiamin started playing with hometown's PFC CSKA Moscow, being an automatic first-choice from his second season onwards, and helping the club to the double in his final year, 1991.

Aged 28, he moved abroad, signing with Spain
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's RCD Español
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, managing to appear sparingly during two La Liga
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 seasons, and being relegated in his second - he became a starter in 1993–94, helping the Catalans
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 immediately return to division one.

In the 1995 summer, due to constant injuries, Galiamin retired from the game at 32, after one season with CP Mérida
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 (Spain, second level
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). In the following decade, already back in his country, he took up coaching, starting with FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg
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, then successively managing FC Kristall Smolensk, FC Khimki
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, FC Tom Tomsk, FC Anzhi Makhachkala
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, FC Spartak Nizhny Novgorod
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 and FC Master-Saturn Yegoryevsk. In 2002, he also served as Saint Petersburg's director of football
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, occupying that position six years later at FC Saturn Moscow Oblast
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.

International career

During four years, Galiamin represented three national teams - USSR
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, CIS
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 and Russia
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 - earning a total of 19 caps
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.

With the latter, he was picked for the 1994 FIFA World Cup
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, playing in the second half of the 1–3 group stage defeat against Sweden
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