Playing position Role Football player Years Team Height 1.82 m | Weight 75 kg Name Sergei Aleinikov Position Midfielder | |
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Full name Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov Date of birth (1961-11-07) 7 November 1961 (age 54) Similar People Oleksandr Zavarov, Sergey Gotsmanov, Oleh Protasov, Igor Belanov, Vasyl Rats |
Best Goals of World Cup 1986
Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov (Russian: Серге́й Евгеньевич Алейников) (born 7 November 1961 in Minsk, Belarusian SSR) is a former football player from Belarus, and currently a coach. He primarily played as a defensive midfielder and was known for his stamina, intelligence, tactical ability and passing ability. He also played in defence as a sweeper.
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Player

Aleinikov played for the USSR national football team, making 73 appearances, scoring six goals, from 1984–91, and was on the Soviet squad that made the final of Euro 88, losing to the Netherlands 0-2. He also played for the CIS in 1992 and earned 4 caps for Belarus after the independence of Belarus, earning his final cap against Luxembourg in a Euro 96 qualifier in 1994.
He joined 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.
Coach
In 2007–08 he served as head coach of amateur Promozione team Kras. Since the summer 2011 until 30 October 2012 he has been again the coach of Kras.
Personal life
His son Artur (born 1991), a midfielder, followed his father’s footsteps and is currently part of Novara squad.
Club
Dinamo Minsk
Juventus
International
Soviet Union