Aleksandr Viktorovich Tikhonovetsky (; born 11 April 1979) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with
FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
FC Luch Vladivostok () was an association football club based in Vladivostok. In 2005, Luch won the Russian First Division and played in the Premier League from 2006 to 2008.
The club was called Luch-Energiya from 2003 to 2018, when it was rena ...
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Career
He made his debut in the
Russian Premier League
The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...
in 2001 with
PFC CSKA Moscow
Professional Football Club CSKA (, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English language, English: ''Central Sports Club of the Army''), commonly referred to as CSKA Moscow or ''CSK ...
.
He is a nephew of former
FC Okean Nakhodka and
FC Lokomotiv Moscow
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player
Oleg Garin (who is considered the most well known Okean player ever) and until 2004 was known as Aleksandr Garin (). After his uncle Oleg mentioned in his autobiography that he thinks Aleksandr's last name has helped him in his football career, Tikhonovetsky changed it, taking his wife's last name.
In 2006, he was disqualified for 8 months for testing positive for
marijuana
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External links
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Profile on the FC Kuban Krasnodar site
1979 births
Living people
People from Nakhodka
Russian men's footballers
Doping cases in association football
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
FC Okean Nakhodka players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
PFC CSKA Moscow players
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk players
FC Kuban Krasnodar players
Russian Premier League players
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
FC Nizhny Novgorod (2007) players
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from Primorsky Krai
20th-century Russian sportsmen
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