Playing position Role Footballer Years Team Height 1.84 m | Position Forward Name Sergei Yuran | |
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Full name Sergei Nikolayevich Yuran Date of birth (1969-06-11) 11 June 1969 (age 46) Place of birth | ||
Sergei Nikolayevich Yuran (Russian: Серге́й Николаевич Юран, Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Юран Serhij Mykolajovyč Juran; born 11 June 1969 in Luhansk, Soviet Union) is a Russian professional football manager and a former player. He manages FC Zorky Krasnogorsk.
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As a striker, he represented the USSR and Russia at international level. He has Russian, Ukrainian and Portuguese citizenship.
Club career
At club level he played in six different countries. After his playing career abruptly ended in 2001 following a skull injury, he became a manager.
International career
He was capped by the USSR, and despite being born in Ukraine and having been honored as the best Ukrainian footballer, chose to represent the Russia after the breakup of the USSR. In 2009, he was part of the Russia squad that won the 2009 Legends Cup.
Coaching career
His first experience in coaching was assistant manager position under Andrey Chernyshov in Spartak Moscow, 2003. After three months, Chernyshov and his assistants were fired from Spartak. In 2004 Yuran managed Dynamo Stavropol. After a brief spell with Latvian side FC Ditton from January to May 2006, Yuran was appointed as manager of Estonian champions FC TVMK in July 2006, but in December he unexpectedly left the team. Soon, he took charge at the First Division side Shinnik Yaroslavl, aiming to win promotion to the Premier League. Since summer of 2008 Sergey Yuran was head coach of FC Khimki, he was fired on 2 December 2008, despite the fact that the club managed to stay in Russian Football Premier League.
On 29 December 2014, he signed as a manager for Russian National Football League club FC Baltika Kaliningrad.
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Personal life
His son Artyom Yuran is a professional footballer.