Maksim Viktorovich Layushkin (; born 22 August 1972) is a former

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n professional

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player and referee.

Club career

As a player, he made his professional debut in the

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in 1989 for

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Referee

Layushkin became a

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referee in 2009.FIFA
"Russia: Referees"
Retrieved on 2 May 2013. He retired as a referee in 2014.

Honours

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

bronze: 1993.

References

1972 births Footballers from Moscow Living people Soviet men's footballers Russian men's footballers Russian football referees FC Dynamo Moscow players FC Tyumen players FC Luch Vladivostok players Russian Premier League players Men's association football midfielders Men's association football defenders 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub