Syarhej Alejnikau

Sjarhej Jauhenawitsch Alejnikau ( Belarusian Сяргей Яўгенавіч Алейнікаў ; born November 7, 1961 in Minsk ) is a former Soviet and Belarusian football player and coach .

Alejnikau played for the Soviet national team and scored six goals in 77 missions from 1984 to 1992. After the break up of the Soviet Union, he also ran four times for Belarus . His greatest success as a player was reaching the European Championship final in 1988 with the Soviet national team, which was lost 2-0 to the Netherlands . At this tournament he also scored the fastest ever goal in European Championship history, namely the 1-0 win over England after 2:06 minutes. This record was only exceeded in 2004.

In 1981 Sjarhej Alejnikau came to Dinamo Minsk and was Soviet champion the following season. The midfielder moved to Juventus in 1989 and won the Coppa Italia and the UEFA Cup in 1990 . In 1991 he signed with US Lecce , a year later he went to Japan to play for Gamba Osaka . In 1998 he ended his career with USC Corigliano after playing for one year (1996) in Sweden with IK Oddevold .

Sjarhej Alejnikau has been back on the football stage as a coach since 1998: After two positions in Italy at ASD Anagni Fontana and US Città di Pontedera , as well as two in Russia at Torpedo-Metallurg and FK Widnoje , he worked from 2003 to 2005 in the Football academy in US Lecce. From 2005 to 2007 Alejnikau was a youth coach at Juventus Turin. Since June 2007 he has been coaching the lower-class club NK Kras from the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia .

In November 2003 he was elected Golden Player of Belarus for the UEFA anniversary .

Trivia

Sjarhej Alejnikau achieved greater awareness again in October 2011. The reason for this was the offensive midfielder Arjen Robben , who was nicknamed "Aleinikow" at Bayern Munich because of his supposedly selfish style of play .

Web links

• Information about Alejnikaus internationals (English)
• Biography of Alejnikau with photo (Russian)
• Alejnikau in series A and B