Sergei Aleinikov

Sergei Jewgenjewitsch Aleinikow ( born November 7, 1961 in Minsk ) is a retired Soviet and Belarusian football player and coach.

Aleinikow played for the Soviet national team and scored in 77 races from 1984 to 1992 six goals. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, he was also four times for Belarus. His greatest success as a player was reaching the European Championship Finals in 1988 with the Soviet national team, which went 0-2 but lost against the Netherlands. At this tournament he also scored the fastest goal scored up to that of the EM- history, namely the 1-0 win over England after 2:06 minutes. This record was not surpassed until 2004.

In 1981, Sergei Aleinikow to Dinamo Minsk and was in the following season of Soviet masters. In 1989, the midfielder for Juventus and won the 1990 Coppa Italia and the UEFA Cup. In 1991 he signed for U.S. Lecce, a year later he went to Japan to play for Gamba Osaka. In 1998, he finished his career at USC Corigliano, after playing one more year (1996 ) in Sweden, the Oddevold.

Since 1998 Sergei Aleinikow is active again on the football stage as manager: After two stations in Italy in the ASD Anagni Fontana and U.S. Città di Pontedera, and two in Russia with Torpedo - Metallurg and the FK Vidnoye he worked from 2003 to 2005 in the football academy in the U.S. Lecce. From 2005 to 2007 Aleinikow was youth coach at Juventus. Since June 2007, he coached the club unterklassigen NK Kras from the Italian region Friuli- Venezia Giulia.

In November 2003 he was elected UEFA Jubilee to Golden Player of Belarus.

Trivia

A higher profile gained Sergei Aleinikow again in October 2011. Reason for this was the attacking midfielder Arjen Robben, who was nicknamed " Aleinikow " because of its supposedly selfish play at Bayern Munich.