Vasil Iosifavich Khamutowski (, , ''Vasily Iosifovich Khomutovsky''; born 30 August 1978) is a Belarusian

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coach and former player who played as a

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Club career

Khamutowski started his career in 1994 with

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, a club from the Belarusian third division. Since 1995, he has been regularly transferring from one club to another and subsequently played for Ataka-Aura Minsk in 1996,

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 ...

in 1998, Smena-BATE Minsk in the same year, again BATE Borisov in 1999 and then again Smena-BATE Minsk, also in 1999. In 2000, he moved to Torpedo-MAZ Minsk before transferring abroad for the first time in the summer of the same year, to German side

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, who played in the 2. Bundesliga at the time. However, he spent the entire season with the German team as the second-choice keeper and only made two league appearances. He went on to move to Russian side Dinamo Moskva in 2001, but soon moved to Volgar GP Astrakhan for the beginning of the 2002 season. However, he only spent one half-season with the team before moving to

Metalist Kharkiv Football Club Metalist Kharkiv, also known as Football Club Metalist Kharkov or FC Metalist Kharkov ( ), is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kharkiv that plays in the Ukrainian First League during the 2023–24 season. It was rev ...

for the 2002–03 season. In the summer of 2003, he joined Romanian team

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on a free transfer, signing a contract until January 2007. He played three seasons for FCSB and won the Romanian league title twice. In early 2006, he left Romania and joined

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, signing a two-year contract. In 2012, he said that "The main problem of the Russians is an undeveloped infrastructure. When people come to old, gray, dilapidated stadiums, and water pours on top of them – how to drive wives and children there? This is especially characteristic of the Urals and Siberia. But clubs have solid budgets; in principle, they could quietly develop in this regard. But where finance wasted, I do not know. It's good that the situation is changing now. We would have to tighten up management, because in Russia this is a problem." In January 2008, he joined

FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Carl Zeiss Jena () is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Founded in 1903, it was initially associated with the optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss. From the 1960s to the 1980s it was one of the top-ranked clubs in East Germany, won ...

, a relegation-threatened side in the German Second Bundesliga, where he signed a contract until the end of the season with an automatic one-year extension in case the club managed to stay in the Second Bundesliga. He helped the team reach the semi-finals of the

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, where they were knocked out by

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. Following Carl Zeiss Jena's relegation to the

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, he signed a two-year contract with

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, where he injured his shoulder. He was released on 30 June 2010. In March 2012, he came back to Romania, signing a contract for three months with Petrolul Ploiești. On 1 June 2013, he won the

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1–0 against

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, playing in the

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International career

Khamutowski was capped several times for

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. He was part of the team in their qualifying campaigns for the

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and

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as well as the

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, appearing in a total of 10 qualifiers for the three tournaments.

Managerial career

On 1 April 2022, Khamutowski signed a contract with Steaua București. He will be the goalkeeping coach for the team's Youth Center.

Political persecution

On 30 September 2022, while visiting Minsk for meniscus surgery and rehabilitation, Khamutowski was arrested in connection with his particilation in 2020 Belarusian protests. On 29 December he was given two years of house arrest. He was recognezed by

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as a

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Honours

BATE Borisov *

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FCSB *

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: 2004–05, 2005–06 Petrolul Ploieşti *

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Khamutowski, Vasil 1978 births Living people Footballers from Minsk Belarusian men's footballers Belarus men's international footballers Men's association football goalkeepers FC BATE Borisov players SV Waldhof Mannheim players FC Dynamo Moscow players FC Metalist Kharkiv players FC Metalist-2 Kharkiv players SC Tavriya Simferopol players FCSB players FC Tom Tomsk players FC Carl Zeiss Jena players FC Augsburg players FC Amkar Perm players FC Volgar Astrakhan players FC Petrolul Ploiești players Belarusian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian Second League players Liga I players 2. Bundesliga players FC Ataka Minsk players FC Torpedo Minsk players FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino players FC Dinamo Minsk players Belarusian football managers Belarusian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Ukraine Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia FC Krumkachy Minsk managers