Name Igor Shkvyrin Position Forward Years Team Weight 76 kg | Height 1.84 m Playing position Role Footballer | |
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Full name Igor Anatolievich Shkvyrin Date of birth (1963-04-29) 29 April 1963 (age 52) | ||
Place of birth Tashkent, Soviet Union Current team Olmaliq FK (manager) | ||
Igor Shkvyrin (Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Шквырин, Igor Anatolievich Shkvyrin (born 29 April 1963 in Tashkent) is a retired Uzbek professional footballer who played for several clubs in Europe and Asia and the Uzbekistan national football team.
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Playing career
He played several seasons in the Soviet Top League with FC Pakhtakor Tashkent and moved to Israel where he played for Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. and Malaysia where he played for Pahang FA. He scored totally 275 goals in career and is member of Club 200 of Berador Abduraimov.
International
Shkyrin made 31 appearances for the Uzbekistan national football team and scored 20 goals from 1992 and 2000. He played in the 1994 Asian Games football tournament in Hiroshima, Japan (the first time Uzbekistan national team participated in an official football tournament following its independence from the Soviet Union, and the team won the gold medal).
Managing career
In 2002, he began managing career and worked in 2003-04 as assistant coach to Aleksandr Tarkhanov in FC Krylia Sovetov Samara. From 2005 to 2007 he was head coach of Uzbek League club Qizilqum Zarafshon. In 2007, he was appointed as assistant coach to Vadim Abramov for Uzbekistan U-23 national team and in 2008-2010 worked as co-trainer to Rauf Inileev and later Mirjalol Kasymov for Uzbekistan national team.
Since 2008 he is head coach of Olmaliq FK. In season 2009 Olmaliq finished fourth in the league and Shkvyrin was named Football coach of the Year.