Alyaksandr Rychardavich Sulima (, ; born 1 August 1979) is a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

coach and former player (

goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...

) from

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 ...

. He is of Polish descent and can speak the language.

Career

Born in

Grodno Grodno, or Hrodna, is a city in western Belarus. It is one of the oldest cities in Belarus. The city is located on the Neman, Neman River, from Minsk, about from the Belarus–Poland border, border with Poland, and from the Belarus–Lithua ...

, Sulima has played professional football in the

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 ...

with

FC Neman Grodno FC Neman Grodno or FK Nyoman Hrodna (; ) is a Belarus, Belarusian professional association football, football club based in the city of Grodno. It is named after the Neman River and founded in 1964. Since 1992, the team has participated in the h ...

, FC MTZ-RIPO Minsk and

FC Dinamo Minsk FC Dinamo Minsk or FK Dynama Minsk (; ) is a Belarusian professional Association football, football club based in the capital city of Minsk. It was founded in 1927 as part of the Soviet Dynamo Sports Club, Dinamo Sports Society, and was the o ...

. He also had a brief spell in the

Russian First Division The Russian First League (, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division () and Russian Football National League (FNL) () is the second level of the Russian football league system. The Russian Professional Football League (PFL) used to ...

with

FC Lada Togliatti FC Lada-Tolyatti () is a Russian football club based in Tolyatti. History The club was founded in 1970 at the VAZ automobile company under the name of ''Torpedo''. The team played in the Soviet Second League until the dissolution of USSR. In 198 ...

. Sulima made his debut for the senior

Belarus national football team The Belarus national football team (; ) represents Belarus in men's international football, and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus, the governing body for football in Belarus. Belarus' home ground is Dinamo Stadium in Minsk. ...

in a friendly against Romania on 19 February 2004. In June 2019, Sulima was appointed as goalkeeper coach for the national team of

under newly hired manager Mikhail Markhel.Футбол. Георгий Кондратьев, Юрий Мархель, Александр Сулима и Дмитрий Ровнейко войдут в штаб сборной Беларуси
pressball.by, 20 June 2019

Honours

MTZ-RIPO Minsk *

Belarusian Cup The Belarusian Cup () is an annual association football knock-out cup competition for men's football clubs of Belarus, organized by the Football Federation of Belarus. Belarusian Cup was established in 1992. Each year the winning team qualifies f ...

winner: 2004–05, 2007–08

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* * 1979 births Living people Belarusian men's footballers Belarus men's international footballers FC Lada-Tolyatti players FC Partizan Minsk players Men's association football goalkeepers FC Neman Grodno players FC Dinamo Minsk players Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Footballers from Grodno {{Belarus-footy-goalkeeper-stub