Igor Khimanych () is a retired

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and Ukrainian football player

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Career

Ihor Khimanych was born in

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. In 1986, he made his debut in Zirka Kirovohrad, for which he played 2 matches. He made his next attempt to gain a foothold in the team of masters in 1989, joining the Kolos Nikopol, but already in the same season he returned to his hometown, concluding an agreement with

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. In the spring of 1995, Khimanych joined the

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, the club in the city of

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. In the season 1996–97 with the club he won the

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. At the end of 1999, he defended the colors of System-Borex Borodianka and later he played in the amateur championship for Fakel-GPZ Varva with the club he won the Chernihiv Oblast Football Championship in 2000. In 2003 he moved to Smorgon in the

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Coach career

After he retired from playing football, in 2011 he was appointed as coach of

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and in 2012 for

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. In 2017, he moved to the position of goalkeeping coach of

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and in 2018 he was invited to be goalkeeper coach for Alliance Lypova.

Honours

;Fakel Varva * Chernihiv Oblast Football Championship 2001 ;Desna Chernihiv *

: 1996–97

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khimanych, Igor 1966 births Living people Footballers from Kryvyi Rih Soviet men's footballers Ukrainian men's footballers FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi players FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol players FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players FC Khimik Sievierodonetsk players FC Krystal Kherson players FC Ros Bila Tserkva players FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih players FC Desna Chernihiv players FC Slavutych players FC Systema-Boreks Borodianka players FC Fakel Varva players FC Smorgon players Ukrainian Second League players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Men's association football goalkeepers 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen