Aleksandr Valeryevich Styopin (; born 7 February 1972) is a former

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n professional

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player.

Club career

He made his professional debut in the

Soviet Second League The Soviet Second League (, Soviet football championship (Second League)) was the third highest division of Soviet Union, Soviet football (soccer), football, below the Soviet First League. The league was formed in 1971 in place of the Class A Se ...

in 1990 for

FC Dynamo Bryansk FC Dynamo-Bryansk is a Russian football club based in Bryansk. The team colours are (Home) all blue. (Away) all white with blue shorts. History The club was founded in 1931 by GPU officer Filaret Adamovich. The team initially consisted of playe ...

. He played 6 games in the

UEFA Intertoto Cup 1998 The 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup finals were won by Valencia, Werder Bremen, and Bologna. All three teams advanced to the UEFA Cup. The 1998 tournament saw Spanish clubs debut in the competition and also the return of English clubs, since the controver ...

for

FC Baltika Kaliningrad FC Baltika () is a professional association football club based in Kaliningrad, Russia. The club will return to the Russian Premier League in the 2025–26 season. History The club was founded on 22 December 1954 as ''Pishchevik Kaliningrad''. In ...

References

1972 births Footballers from Bryansk Living people Soviet men's footballers Russian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Russian Premier League players FC Fakel Voronezh players FC Baltika Kaliningrad players FC Salyut Belgorod players FC Volgar Astrakhan players FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players FC Dynamo Bryansk players 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub