Aleksandr Petrovich Shirko (russian: Александр Петрович Ширко; born 24 November 1976) is a Russian
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
scout and a former player. He works as a scout of
FC Khimki
FC Khimki (russian: ФК Химки) is a Russian professional football club based in Khimki. The club returned to the Russian Premier League in the 2020–21 season.
History
The team was formed in 1996 by merging two amateur clubs from Khimki, ...
.
Playing career
Shirko started his professional career with
Spartak Moscow, with whom he won six
Russian Premier League titles, from 1996 to 2001, and become one of the top scorers of the
UEFA Cup in the 1997/1998 season, before leaving for city-rivals
Torpedo.
In 2004 Shirko joined
Shinnik Yaroslavl
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl (russian: Футбольный клуб «Шинник» Ярославль) is a Russian football club, based in Yaroslavl.
From 1957 to 1960 the team was called Khimik (russian: Химик - "the chemist").
In the USSR ...
as part of a loan deal from
Torpedo, but then extended his stay at the club by two years.
In 2006 Aleksandr Shirko was involved in a fight with Shinnik fans, after a disappointing 1–6 defeat to
Rostov. That accident earned him a ten-match ban.
At the start of 2007, Shirko signed with
Tom Tomsk, in club's attempt to replace
Pavel Pogrebnyak
Pavel Viktorovich Pogrebnyak (russian: Па́вел Ви́кторович Погребня́к ; born 8 November 1983) is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Born in Moscow, Pogrebnyak began his career at Spart ...
, who left for
Zenit Saint Petersburg.
During his professional career, Shirko earned six caps for
Russia national football team from 1999 to 2001, scoring one goal in a 3–0 win over
Faroe Islands in 2001.
International goals
External links
Player profile
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1976 births
Footballers from Moscow
Living people
Russian footballers
Russia youth international footballers
Russia under-21 international footballers
Russia international footballers
FC Spartak Moscow players
Russian Premier League players
FC Torpedo Moscow players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC Tom Tomsk players
FC Akhmat Grozny players
Association football forwards
FC MVD Rossii Moscow players