Dmitry A. SmirnovDmitry Alexandrovich Smirnov is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is currently an assistant coach for the Azerbaijan Premier League club Sabah.CareerHe holds the record for Luch for most league goals in a year and left on 7 January 2009 the club and moved to FC Terek Grozny.CoachingOn November 27, 2024, it was announced that he had been appointed as an assistant coach at Sabah.PersonalHis father, Aleksandr Smirnov, played in the Soviet Top League for FC Spartak Moscow.CharacteristicsHe is not related to Dmitri Nikolayevich Smirnov with whom he played on the same team for several years for FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow, Luch and Tom. To avoid confusion, he is usually referred to as Dmitri A. Smirnov or Smirnov I.