Sergei Aleinikov
Personal information
Full name	Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov
Date of birth	November 7, 1961 (1961-11-07) (age 48)
Place of birth	Minsk, USSR, (now Belarus)
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1981–1989 1989–1990 1990–1992 1992–1995 1996 1997 1998	Dinamo Minsk Juventus Lecce Gamba Osaka IK Oddevold Anagni Corigliano	0220 (31) 0030 0(3) 0059 0(2) 0083 (14) 0005 0(0) 0009 0(1)
National team
1984–1991 1992 1992–1994	USSR CIS Belarus	0073 0(6) 0004 0(0) 0004 0(0)
Teams managed
1998–1999 2000–2001 2003 2003 2003–2005 2005–2007 2007–2008	Anagni U.S. Pontedera 1912 Torpedo-Metalurg Moscow Vidnoye Copertino Youth Academy Juventus Youth Academy FC Kras
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov (Russian: Сергей Евгеньевич Алейников) (born 7 November 1961 in Minsk) is a former football (soccer) player from Belarus, now coach.

[edit] Career

He played for the USSR national football team, making 77 appearances for the USSR, scoring six goals, from 1984-91, when USSR made the final of Euro 88, losing to the Netherlands 0-2. He also earned 4 caps for Belarus after the independence of Belarus.

He joined F.C. Dinamo Minsk in 1981 and won the USSR championship the following season. The midfielder then joined Juventus F.C. in 1989, and won the UEFA Cup and Coppa Italia in 1990. He signed for U.S. Lecce in 1990, and in 1992 went to Japan to play for Gamba Osaka. He finished his career with Swedish side IK Oddevold in 1996.

In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Belarus by the Football Federation of Belarus as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.^[1]

In 2007–08 he served as head coach of amateur Promozione team NK Kras. He currently lives in Lecce.

[edit] Family

His son Artur (born 1991), a midfielder, followed his father’s footsteps and is currently part of Novara squad.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• UEFA.com - Golden player of Belarus
• RSSSF
• national-football-teams.com
• Aleinikov at Juve and Lecce

v • d • e USSR squad – 1986 FIFA World Cup 1 Dasayev • 2 Bezsonov • 3 Chivadze • 4 Morozov • 5 Demyanenko • 6 Bubnov • 7 Yaremchuk • 8 Yakovenko • 9 Zavarov • 10 Kuznetsov • 11 Blokhin • 12 Bal • 13 Litovchenko • 14 Rodionov • 15 Larionov • 16 Chanov • 17 Yevtushenko • 18 Protasov • 19 Belanov • 20 Aleinikov • 21 Rats • 22 Krakovsky • Coach: Lobanovsky

v • d • e USSR squad – UEFA Euro 1988 Runners-up 1 Dasayev • 2 Bezsonov • 3 Khidiyatullin • 4 Kuznetsov • 5 Demyanenko • 6 Rats • 7 Aleinikov • 8 Litovchenko • 9 Zavarov • 10 Protasov • 11 Belanov • 12 Vishnevsky • 13 Sulakvelidze • 14 Sukristov • 15 Mikhailichenko • 16 Chanov • 17 Dmitriev • 18 Gotsmanov • 19 Baltacha • 20 Pasulko • Coach: Lobanovsky

v • d • e USSR squad – 1990 FIFA World Cup 1 Dasayev • 2 Bezsonov • 3 Khidiyatullin • 4 Kuznetsov • 5 Demyanenko • 6 Rats • 7 Aleinikov • 8 Litovchenko • 9 Zavarov • 10 Protasov • 11 Dobrovolski • 12 Borodyuk • 13 Tsveiba • 14 Liuty • 15 Yaremchuk • 16 Chanov • 17 Zygmantovich • 18 Shalimov • 19 Fokin • 20 Gorlukovich • 21 Broshin • 22 Uvarov • Coach: Lobanovsky

v • d • e CIS squad – UEFA Euro 1992 1 Kharine • 2 Chernyshov • 3 Tskhadadze • 4 Tsveiba • 5 O. Kuznetsov • 6 Shalimov • 7 Mikhailichenko • 8 Kanchelskis • 9 Aleinikov • 10 Dobrovolski • 11 Yuran • 12 Cherchesov • 13 Kiriakov • 14 Liuty • 15 Kolyvanov • 16 D. Kuznetsov • 17 Korneev • 18 Onopko • 19 Lediakhov • 20 Ivanov • Coach: Byshovets