Valery Streltsov is a
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
association football
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coach.
Club career
Streltsov spent his entire playing career, from 1967 until 1975, in
Spartak Mogilev (renamed to Dnepr Mogilev in 1973). After his early retirement (at the age of 27), he started working as coach in local Mogilev football academy. From 1984 till 1985, he worked as director for Dnepr Mogilev and, in 1986, he was appointed as team's coach, a position he held until 2008 with brief interruptions in 1993–1994, 1995, 2003 and 2005–2007. He stepped down for the last time in 2008 due to health problems. Since 1990, he was appointed as Dnepr's general director.
With Valery Streltsov as a coach,
Dnepr Mogilev finished at the 2nd place in inaugural Belarusian championship in
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
* January 6
** The Republ ...
and won their only champions title in
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
.
In 2009, Streltsov partied ways with Dnepr and joined
Dinamo Minsk as a general director.
National team
From 2000 till 2003, Streltsov worked as assistant coach for
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. ...
under head coach
Eduard Malofeyev
Eduard Vasilyevich Malofeyev ( rus, Эдуа́рд Васи́льевич Малофе́ев, p=məlɐˈfʲeɪf, ; born 2 June 1942) is a Soviet and Belarusian football coach and former international player of Russian origin.
Despite being born ...
. In September 2002, in a
Euro 2004 qualifying match against
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
, he acted as team's
caretaker manager
In association footballing terms, a caretaker manager or interim manager is somebody who takes temporary charge of the management of a football team, usually when the regular manager is dismissed or leaves for a different club. However, a caret ...
, replacing Malofeyev, who was unable to present at the game due to health condition. Belarus lost that game 0–3.
Match report
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References
External links
Career summary as of 2008
1948 births
Living people
Soviet men's footballers
Belarusian men's footballers
FC Dnepr Mogilev players
Soviet football managers
Belarusian football managers
Belarus national football team managers
FC Dnepr Mogilev managers
Men's association football forwards
20th-century Belarusian sportsmen
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