Rafael Radikovich Urazbakhtin (Russian: Рафаэль Радикович Уразбахтин; born 20 November 1978) is a retired footballer from Kazakhstan.
That season, the club were relegated from the Kazakhstan Premier League after finishing in ninth place, with Urazbakhtin scoring once in twenty-two appearances.
He signed for FC Rostov ahead of the 2001 season and played thirteen games as they finished twelfth in the Russian Premier League.
Urazbakhtin made his debut for Kazakhstan in a 2-0 loss to Iran in December 1998 in the 1998 Asian Games, while he was playing for FC Kairat.
Rafael had to wait until April 2001 for his next international call-up, playing against Nepal in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier and scoring Kazakhstan's third goal in a 6-0 win.
The striker's final three caps for Kazakhstan came in 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Ukraine in September, Albania in October, and Greece in November.
[3] As the game was a qualifier for an Olympics tournament, Kazakhstan sent their under-23 team to compete,[4] and as Urazbakhtin was only 20 years old at the time, he was called up to the under-23 side.