Ali Abilzade's path from street football to a master team was not so long. In 1946, 16-year-old Ali joined the football department at the then Central Pioneers' Palace. After the first training session, Mikhail Alimkin, a well-known football specialist, advised him to play in attack. This made him happy. After all, he loved to score goals. It was taken from him. Three years later, he was invited to Neftyanik. At that time, the coaches expected that this young striker would make the fans very happy with the goals he scored in our team. Ali also lived up to expectations. Abilzadeh's hat-trick against Leninabad (formerly Dushanbe) and the Indonesian national team showed his high bombing skills.

Chingiz Ismayilov, a former master of sports at Neftyanik, remembers Ali as a very nice and funny man: “Later, when he was the coach of Baku's Dinamo, he invited me there. Ali had a good coaching talent. He understood the game very well. He knew when to replace the players during the game. After his substitution, there was a turning point in the course of the game. "

One of Ali's closest friends was the honored journalist of Azerbaijan, famous football commentator Valid Sanani: The reason for our friendship was Neftchi's visit to Cambodia and Thailand in 1959. At that time, I was the head of the radio's "News" editorial office. Sports news and the radio magazine "Sport" were prepared by our editorial office. The next day, when Neftchi returned from the trip, we invited Ali on the radio to talk about the trip. Since graduating from Russian school, Ali spoke Azerbaijani only in the neighborhood language. So we wrote a page of text for him. This required censorship. During the Soviet era, censorship was mandatory, and then allowed to air. Ali read the text with great difficulty and asked not to broadcast it, not to embarrass him in public, as he said. The announcer read the text on his behalf. From that day on, our friendship and then our family friendship began. After returning from Neftchi's game, Neftchi's away matches, they always meet at our house or in them, when the team wins, they remember with joy and pride the best moments of the game, and when we lose, we try not to talk about the game. Ali asked me to speak only Azerbaijani with him. Ali's father, Bagir, was once a famous butcher in Baku. Therefore, in Chambarakand, Ali was called the son of the butcher Bagir. Once, during a conversation with Haji Hajiyev, the editor-in-chief of the children's and youth publishing house, he talked about Neftyanik's visits, and Haji suggested that Ali write a book about it. Ali appealed to me and together we wrote the book "Neftchi's trips". The book quickly spread among football fans. Ali Abilzade was a very sincere, optimistic, funny and loyal person. Those who know him always remember Ali with respect. May God have mercy on him."

In 1961, B. Arkadyev offered Ali to become the second coach. Ali was 31 years old at the time. This age was considered "old" in Soviet football. Ali was very happy with this unexpected offer. Like Arkadyev, he is proud to be an assistant coach and tried to learn as much as he could. This was reflected in Ali's career as a coach in the following years. Later, Ali Abilzade worked freely as a head coach in many teams of the republic. Even when he was the head coach of Goyazen, his generosity spread throughout the USSR. In one of the episodes, the Kazakh defender slapped his young teammate, but the referee did not see it. But Abilzade saw him and called the defender aside and sent him to the dressing room. The team had to spend the remaining minutes in the minority.

His last job was in Shamakhi. In 1993, he was the head coach of Shamakhi's "Shirvan" team. But he could not finish his work here. The former striker, who returned to Baku after a victory over a local team in Neftchala on April 11, died of a sudden heart attack at home a few hours later.