Boris Aleksandrovich Pozdnyakov (; born 31 May 1962) is a Russian

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coach and a former player.

Honours

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

winner: 1989. * Soviet Top League runner-up: 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1991. * Soviet Top League bronze: 1982. *

1990 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship The 1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which spanned two years (1988–90), had 30 entrants. San Marino competed for the first time. USSR U-21s won the competition. The 30 national teams were divided into eight groups (six groups of 4 + t ...

winner.

International career

Podznyakov made his debut for

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on 28 March 1984 in a friendly against

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. He played in the

1986 FIFA World Cup The 1986 FIFA World Cup was the 13th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-tea ...

qualifiers.

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1962 births Footballers from Moscow Living people Soviet men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers Soviet Union men's under-21 international footballers Russian men's footballers Soviet expatriate men's footballers Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria FC Spartak Moscow players FC Dynamo Moscow players FC Torpedo Moscow players FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk players Soviet Top League players Russian Premier League players Men's association football defenders FC Sportakademklub Moscow players 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-defender-1960s-stub