Aleksandr Alekseyevich Minayev (russian: Александр Алексеевич Минаев; 11 August 1954 – 6 December 2018) was a Russian football player and coach.
Honours
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Soviet Top League winner: 1976 (spring).
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Soviet Cup
The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS (Moldova ...
winner: 1977.
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Olympic bronze: 1976.
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European Under-23 Championship winner: 1976.
International career
Minayev made his debut for
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
on 20 March 1976 in a friendly against
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. He played in the quarterfinal for the
UEFA Euro 1976 and qualifiers for
1978 FIFA World Cup
The 1978 FIFA World Cup was the 11th edition of the FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football world championship tournament among the men's senior national teams. It was held in Argentina between 1 and 25 June.
The Cup was won by t ...
(USSR did not qualify for the final tournament for either).
Personal life
In the first half of the 1980s, he was in a long relationship with actress
Natalya Gundareva
Natalya Georgyevna Gundareva (russian: Наталья Георгиевна Гундарева, August 28, 1948 — May 15, 2005) was a Soviet Russian film and theatre actress, one of the leading figures at the Mayakovsky Theatre where she worked ...
.
Александр Минаев: Я твоя Альфа и Омега
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References
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1954 births
2018 deaths
Russian men's footballers
Soviet men's footballers
Soviet Union men's international footballers
Soviet Top League players
FC Spartak Moscow players
FC Dynamo Moscow players
Olympic footballers for the Soviet Union
Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Russian football managers
People from Balashikha
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Moscow Oblast
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