Alyaksandr Baranaw (; ; born 27 November 1974) is a retired

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

ian professional

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er. He works as a youth coach with

BATE Borisov FC BATE Borisov (, ''FK BATE Borisov'' ; , ''BATE Barysaw,'' ), commonly referred to as BATE or BATE Borisov, is a Belarusian professional football team from the city of Barysaw. The club competes in the Belarusian Premier League, of which the ...

Career

Born in

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, Baranaw began playing football in

Smena Minsk Minsk-2 is a Belarusian football club based in Minsk and is a reserve team of FC Minsk. History The team was formed in 1954 as FShM Minsk (''Futbolnaya Shkhola Molodyozhi'', or ''Football School of Youth'') and was essentially a student team. Dur ...

youth system. He played for FC Zarya Yazyl in the Second Division and joined Stroitel's senior team where he made his

Belarusian Premier League The Belarusian Premier League (, ''Vyšejšaja Liha'' or ''Vysheyshaya Liga''; ; "Top League"), also called the BETERA Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Belarus and the highest level of the B ...

debut in 1992. Baranaw would win the Premier League with

FC BATE Borisov FC BATE Borisov (, ''FK BATE Borisov'' ; , ''BATE Barysaw,'' ), commonly referred to as BATE or BATE Borisov, is a Belarusian professional football team from the city of Barysaw. The club competes in the Belarusian Premier League, of which th ...

in 1999.

Honours

champion: 1999.

References

1974 births Living people Belarusian men's footballers Russian Premier League players FC BATE Borisov players FC Rostov players FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod players FC Darida Minsk Raion players FC Naftan Novopolotsk players FC Smorgon players FC Volgar Astrakhan players FC Starye Dorogi players FC Gorodeya players Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Belarusian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football midfielders {{Belarus-footy-midfielder-stub