Valeri Minko
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Valeri Vikentyevich Minko | ||
Date of birth | 8 August 1971 | ||
Place of birth | Barnaul, USSR | ||
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1988–1989 | Dynamo Barnaul | 3 | (0) |
1989–2001 | CSKA Moscow | 242 | (13) |
2002 | Kuban Krasnodar | 3 | (0) |
Total | 248 | (13) | |
International career | |||
1991 | USSR U-20 | 10 | (1) |
1992 | USSR U-21 | 3 | (0) |
1992–1993 | Russia U-21 | 5 | (0) |
1996–1998 | Russia | 4 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2008– | CSKA Moscow Reserves (assistant) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Valeri Vikentyevich Minko (Russian: Валерий Викентьевич Минько; born 8 August 1971) is a former association footballer who played defender and now head coach.
He capped for USSR U-20 team at 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship.
In 1993, he was subjected to nephrectomy after being injured when playing a 1994 U-21 European Championship qualifying game against Greece (1–1). Nevertheless, he decided to continue his career with one kidney remaining and played over 200 games after his injury. Now he is considered by CSKA fans as one of symbols of courage and team spirit.
External links
[edit]- Valeri Minko at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
- Valery Minko's 1999 interview (in Russian)
- Valeri Minko – FIFA competition record (archived)
Categories:
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Barnaul
- Soviet men's footballers
- Soviet Union men's youth international footballers
- Soviet Union men's under-21 international footballers
- Russian men's footballers
- Russia men's under-21 international footballers
- Russia men's international footballers
- Russian football managers
- FC Dynamo Barnaul players
- PFC CSKA Moscow players
- Soviet Top League players
- Russian Premier League players
- FC Kuban Krasnodar players
- Men's association football defenders
- Russian football defender, 1970s births stubs
- Soviet football biography stubs