Sergei Aleinikov

Not to be confused with Sergey Aleynikov.

Sergei Aleinikov

Personal information
Full name	Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov
Date of birth	(1961-11-07) 7 November 1961
Place of birth	Minsk, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1981–1989	Dinamo Minsk	220	(31)
1989–1990	Juventus	30	(3)
1990–1992	Lecce	59	(2)
1993–1996	Gamba Osaka	83	(14)
1996	IK Oddevold	5	(0)
1997	Anagni
1998	Corigliano	9	(1)
International career
1983–1984	Soviet Union Olympic	4	(1)
1984–1991	Soviet Union	73	(6)
1992	CIS	4	(0)
1992–1994	Belarus	4	(0)
Managerial career
1998–1999	Anagni
2000–2001	U.S. Pontedera 1912
2003	Torpedo-Metalurg Moscow
2003	Vidnoye
2003–2005	Copertino Youth Academy
2005–2007	Juventus Youth Academy
2007–2008	Kras
2011–2012	Kras
2014	Dainava Alytus
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov (Russian: Серге́й Евгеньевич Алейников) (born 7 November 1961 in Minsk, Belarusian SSR) is a former football player from Belarus, and currently a coach.

Career

Player

Aleinikov played for the USSR national football team, making 73 appearances, scoring six goals, from 1984–91, and was on the Soviet squad that made the final of Euro 88, losing to the Netherlands 0-2. He also played for the CIS in 1992 and earned 4 caps for Belarus after the independence of Belarus, earning his final cap against Luxembourg in a Euro 96 qualifier in 1994.

He joined Dinamo Minsk in 1981 and won the USSR championship the following season. The midfielder then joined Juventus F.C. in 1989, and won the UEFA Cup and Coppa Italia in 1990. He signed for U.S. Lecce in 1990, and in 1992 went to Japan to play for Gamba Osaka. He finished his career with Swedish side IK Oddevold in 1996.

In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Belarus by the Football Federation of Belarus as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.

Coach

In 2007–08 he served as head coach of amateur Promozione team Kras. Since the summer 2011 until 30 October 2012 he has been again the coach of Kras.

Honours

Dinamo Minsk

• Soviet Top League champion: 1982

Juventus

• Coppa Italia winner: 1989–90
• UEFA Cup winner: 1989–90

Soviet Union

• UEFA European Championship runner-up: 1988

Family

His son Artur (born 1991), a midfielder, followed his father’s footsteps and is currently part of Novara squad.

Club career statistics

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Soviet Union			League		Soviet Cup		Federation Cup		Total
1981	Dinamo Minsk	Top League	14	0					14	0
1982			21	8					21	8
1983			29	2					29	2
1984			31	3					31	3
1985			32	5					32	5
1986			21	6					21	6
1987			28	2					28	2
1988			28	3					28	3
1989			16	2					16	2
Italy			League		Coppa Italia		League Cup		Total
1989/90	Juventus	Serie A	30	3					30	3
1990/91	Lecce	Serie A	29	0					29	0
1991/92		Serie B	30	2					30	2
Japan			League		Emperor's Cup		J. League Cup		Total
1993	Gamba Osaka	J. League 1	15	0	2	1	5	1	22	2
1994			32	6	0	0	3	1	35	7
1995			36	8	4	1	-		40	9
1996			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sweden			League		Svenska Cupen		League Cup		Total
1996	Oddevold	Allsvenskan	5	0					5	0
Italy			League		Coppa Italia		League Cup		Total
1997/98	Città di Anagni	Nazionale Dilettanti	0	0					0	0
1997/98	Corigliano	Nazionale Dilettanti	9	1					9	1
Country	Soviet Union		220	31					220	31
	Italy		98	6					98	6
	Japan		83	14	6	2	8	2	97	18
	Sweden		5	0					5	0
Total			406	51	6	2	8	2	420	55

International career statistics

Soviet Union national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1984	6	0
1985	14	1
1986	10	1
1987	8	1
1988	15	2
1989	7	0
1990	5	0
1991	8	1
Total	73	6

CIS national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1992	4	0
Total	4	0

Belarus national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1992	1	0
1993	2	0
1994	1	0
Total	4	0

External links

• Sergei Aleinikov at National-Football-Teams.com
• UEFA.com - Golden player of Belarus
• Aleinikov at Juve and Lecce