Kurban Bekiyevich Berdyev is a Turkmen-Russian football manager, and a former Soviet footballer. In 2017 he was included among top 50 managers in the world by fourfourtwo.com, at the 36th place, ahead of Brendan Rodgers.
Berdyev managing Rubin Kazan in 2017
Kurban Berdyev and Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev with the Russian Premier League Champions Cup during the ceremony of awarding FC Rubin with the Russian Premier League gold medals
Berdyev has never appeared in public without his beads.
FC Rubin Kazan is a Russian professional football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the Russian Premier League. Founded in 1958, Rubin played its first-ever top flight season in 2003. It has remained there through the 2021–22 season, winning the Russian Premier League championship in 2008 and 2009. After one season in the second tier, the club returned to the RPL for the 2023–24 season. The club also won the 2011–12 Russian Cup. The team plays in the Ak Bars Arena.
Alejandro Domínguez, one of Rubin's most influential players since the team's inception in the Russian Premier League.
Rubin Kazan — Spartak Moscow
Alexander Bukharov
Kurban Berdyev and Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev with the Russian Premier League Champions Cup during the ceremony of awarding FC Rubin with the Russian Premier League gold medals
